I managed to get just a few things done, but I did take a few nice pictures.

Instead of a day of hard work, I watched a movie after going far north to take pictures.  Pictures were taken, and some of them are good, which puts me a step closer to collecting the content I would like to have for my Flash project.  Baby steps are cute, but for a grown man, you’re just walking funny.  How did I manage to burn such a beautiful day with such a few tasks?  I figure it’s worth setting into list form to see how the piddling minutes are easily wasted:

• 1 1/2 hours traveling to and fro
• 1 1/2 hours taking pictures.  I may have also drunk a glass of water.
• 2 hours watching a terrible movie.  Why are alcoholics PG-13 fare?
• 45 minutes eating
• 2 hours for laundry

Already I’m looking at an 8 hour day, and that’s just from general waste.  Pictures were taken, but I managed to burn time anyway.  How does this add up?  By neglecting to add up all the other wasted time, which is coming to look like an atom bomb crater of spent potential work time.  The trick now would be figuring out how to be as neurotic as necessary to manage all resources as carefully as to justify this obsession.

No Comments / Jul 03.08 / Distraction, Wasted Time, Work / by admin

Not getting things done or taking longer to do them than is necessary.  [ is a sentence fragment. ]

Whose rule is it that a task will stretch to fit the amount of time available to do it in?  ( a cursory search of google finds me only a Finnish anecdote about procrastination. )

In order to better get things done, I will work down a list I may have pulled out of thin air.

1. Take portrait photos for my flash site.
2. Accept that I am making a flash site.
3. Figure out how to make it.  Once I’ve got my raw resources, it will be all sawed planks and loose nails.  That’s basically already a house.
4. Finish my script.
5. Buy tea.
6. Emerge from cocoon swaddled in silk and mewling at the horror of raw experience.

I haven’t any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

Dashiell Hammett

Not a very handsome gentleman, but what can you say.

No Comments / Jul 02.08 / Distraction, Famous People / by admin