New Year's Resolutions
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prince_ericSo I'm at a meeting, where we were ideally going to be getting the lowdown on ways to secure your Windows systems (no cracks about securing it by installing $Other_OS_of_Choice, please...), and have ended up getting (at least to start) the basic security primer, and as usual, my mind's beginning to wander, and start thinking about all of the things I'm not doing right now.
(For the record, high on the list: staining baseboard and trim work, then sanding some other cabinetwork so that it can get its final coat of varnish.)
As I was running down the list, I naturally moved from the list of immediate things (gotta get the staining done by this weekend, at least, so I can get the cabinets ready for the doors that will hopefully be here this coming Monday), to some of the things I was looking to get done over the next couple of weeks. As I was looking over the immediate tasks, things like going through the previous years worth of bills and paperwork and organize that, migrate from paper systems for managing bills and the like to electronic ones (and so on) could actually be summed up as New Year's resolutions (manage finances better). On the one hand, I'm not a huge believer in NYE resolutions -- they typically seem to be the quick way to feel good about yourself when looking at the past year -- "I was X, but now I resolve to be better by doing Y" type of things. With the typical result that within a month or two, the person has most likely lapsed back into whatever behavior (or lack thereof) they were doing the previous year (witness the number of constant, year-round members and users of health/fitness clubs, and their complaints that start on 1 Jan, and end sometime mid-February, over all the new workout warriors that show up like clockwork).
On the other hand, a lot of this stuff is showing up now due to coincidence (prince_corwin e-mailing me about something), or because now's the time to do it (personal finances running on a calendar-year schedule). Given that these are things I want to do, I figure that I'll list a handful, just because it'll do me good to get stuff down in writing, both in terms of forcing me to clarify and articulate things as well as giving me something I can refer back to, as my short-term memory is more or less completely shot at this point.
Hardly an exhaustive list, but it should do for a start.
Since this meeting's (mercifully) ready to wrap up, it's time to post this so I can close up shop.
(For the record, high on the list: staining baseboard and trim work, then sanding some other cabinetwork so that it can get its final coat of varnish.)
As I was running down the list, I naturally moved from the list of immediate things (gotta get the staining done by this weekend, at least, so I can get the cabinets ready for the doors that will hopefully be here this coming Monday), to some of the things I was looking to get done over the next couple of weeks. As I was looking over the immediate tasks, things like going through the previous years worth of bills and paperwork and organize that, migrate from paper systems for managing bills and the like to electronic ones (and so on) could actually be summed up as New Year's resolutions (manage finances better). On the one hand, I'm not a huge believer in NYE resolutions -- they typically seem to be the quick way to feel good about yourself when looking at the past year -- "I was X, but now I resolve to be better by doing Y" type of things. With the typical result that within a month or two, the person has most likely lapsed back into whatever behavior (or lack thereof) they were doing the previous year (witness the number of constant, year-round members and users of health/fitness clubs, and their complaints that start on 1 Jan, and end sometime mid-February, over all the new workout warriors that show up like clockwork).
On the other hand, a lot of this stuff is showing up now due to coincidence (prince_corwin e-mailing me about something), or because now's the time to do it (personal finances running on a calendar-year schedule). Given that these are things I want to do, I figure that I'll list a handful, just because it'll do me good to get stuff down in writing, both in terms of forcing me to clarify and articulate things as well as giving me something I can refer back to, as my short-term memory is more or less completely shot at this point.
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merhawk. - Get away from the paper bills and statements, and try to do things electronically.
- Once both TurboTax and all relevant tax docs show up, get returns done now, and not wait until the end of March.
- Whip the shit out of prince_corwin in Diplomacy, because I'm better then him.
- Reduce my tolerance at work for stupidity and banality.
- Reduce my to-be-read stack of books by at least a half-dozen before ordering the rest of the Brust books.
- Write more. My writing ability has atrophied to an alarming degree, mainly due to a lack of use. This journal (and some reasonable clients like XJournal) should help with that.
Hardly an exhaustive list, but it should do for a start.
Since this meeting's (mercifully) ready to wrap up, it's time to post this so I can close up shop.
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Date: 2004-01-14 07:39 pm (UTC)Any. Time.
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Date: 2004-01-14 09:01 pm (UTC)Reduce it? Is that even possible? You made me seem like the reasonable one when I was there!
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Date: 2004-01-15 06:06 am (UTC)1. Call [[info]] merhawk.
Which is always best done when I'm awake.
Sorry, luv. This is a bad, bad, week.
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Date: 2004-01-15 08:36 am (UTC)So far, this week has been nothing but a series of beatings, personal (by management and support staff) and impersonal (by fate.)
Most of my co-workers have been getting fucked by fate this week, too.
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Date: 2004-01-19 06:36 pm (UTC)Grrrr.... god-damned stupid bint who doesn't know how to work on her own proposals.