chasm

upn and wb

I heard that the UPN and WB networks would be merging. Maybe I'm missing something but aren't these two networks interchangeable anyway? I'm pretty sure I've mistaken one station for the other numerous times in the past few years.

tele-commute

I worked from home this morning ... that shit is bananas, hahahaha :-)

inconsistent

I saw a middle-aged woman flick her cigarette butt onto the street from the comfort of her Toyota Prius (super-duper hybrid car that's good for the environment). Somehow, I think she's missing the big picture.

congrats

An old friend of mine sent me this image in an email today. She says it's her 8-week old baby. It looks more like a photo from some far corner of the Milky Way galaxy to me but, regardless, I'm passing on my congratulations to her. I'd also like to pass on my belated congratulations on her engagement this past fall.

It's crazy how fast we can go from being a kid to a full-fledged adult.

While I'm no where near ready to pursue parenthood, I think that she's going to make a great mom. I don't know much about the father / fiancee but if she picked him over everyone else, he must be an equally great guy for her and that's good enough for me.

SO, I wish them both the best and I'm asking everyone on this blog to do so as well (not necessarily by posting) because I hope any friend of mine would be a friend of yours.

half of this, half of that

Beware, fuzzy math (proportions) to follow.

It occurred to me that while many people get credit (good or bad) for what they say, it’s often the things that people don’t say that can be most poignant. I’m even prepared to go 50/50 on said to not said.

poll for a poll

Alright, this is the pinnacle of polls ... a poll on what poll to post next.

What does everyone think?

i have a wait problem

No, I don't mean weight problem. I mean a wait (ing) problem.

I don't procrastinate (like I used to anyway) but I've been known to put things off until later for what seem like perfectly logical and rational reasons. As an example, let's take a look at the new year.

I've outlined several things that I would like to accomplish in January and I'm really going to have to work to make them happen. However, there are still bowl games from LAST college football season that I am NOT going to miss. Just like that, I fall behind four days. I'm now looking at an entire month worth of objcetives but only twenty-seven days left to get them done. (Sporting events can do this to me ... I'm still very much the college kid that skipped every class that would have prevented me from watching my team in the MLB playoffs. I feel so disloyal when I don't watch my teams, especially in the playoffs ... but I digress.)

Another example? Sure. How about my next IT-related certification? I was going to get started on that process the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve because it's typically a slow week. My plan was to take the exam by the end of January. WELL, because another tech. was on vacation that week, I was busier than anticipated and now it becomes much less likely that I'll take the exam in January. In addition, I've really got to get a website done for my one friend and I really don't have the time to work on both studying and designing / coding a website this month. I've also received several things to read for Christmas that I should really get to before I bury myself in other projects. I take the certifications pretty seriously and I've never failed an exam. I'm afraid that if I don't give it my undivided attention that won't continue to be the case.

For some reason, my mind prefers asynchrony as an effective way to make sure that I'm maximizing my focus on the task at hand. In its simplest form, I never want to start anything that I can't finish and maybe that's the crux of the issue. I always want to make sure I have a large enough block of time to do the task properly and my life just hasn't worked out in those nice, neat chunks of time as I had hoped it would. Maybe it never will. I'm thinking this might be the case.

I'm hoping that I can adjust this mentality to allow me to work on things in smaller time allotments while still maintaining a modicum of integrity and quality in the work. We'll see how it goes.