Should this be Tensday or Wuesday? - Freeze-Frame Radio

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Should this be Tensday or Wuesday?

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Good job, Mz.

I know how to be organized, my problem is that I just don't do it.

Somebody wake me up when it's time for naps. I don't want to miss that.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Good day, all. Not a lot of excitement around here today. It seems that lots of the peeps decided to work from home today. The weather is decent so far, but that will likely end later this afternoon. It seems as though we are catching the extreme northern edge of tropical storm Hermine. We are forecast for thunderstorms through tomorrow. It is very cloudy outside right now, but the temperature is a very pleasant 68*.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Oh yeah... I got home last night to find a backhoe digging an enormous hole in the end of the private drive that connects my driveway to the street.

It seems the water main on my side of the street broke. The city workers had just turned the water back on moments before I arrived. Fortunately they got the hole patched in enough last night that I could get out this morning. Makes me kind of wonder what this day has in store for me.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

WebGuy wrote:

Good job, Mz.

I know how to be organized, my problem is that I just don't do it.

I go through phases. I always think that I've established an easy enough system that I'll stick with it, but I usually fall out of the habit. I hope I've got one that will stick with me this time. I even included billing! I'm almost caught up!

I'm kind of like this cartoon: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I go through phases too.

When I write things down, put them on a calendar, whatever . . . I remember them. After a while, I start to think "I rarely have to look at the schedule, so I'm just wasting time doing the schedule."

Then, when I stop doing the schedule, I start forgetting stuff because I didn't enter them into the schedule.

What kind of system are you using now?

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

I'm more organized at work than at home... probably because I get paid more...

The office energy has been a little tense the past couple days. Some people take their personal problems out on their co-workers

It's getting old...

Maranda found a place. She and her best friend from grade school are sharing a place in town. Maranda can be very hard to live with -- bless her heart --hope it doesn't wreck the friendship. I'm really going to miss Doodlebug, but it's time for Mr. DS and me to have our space back and for Isaac to have his bedroom -- he goes to bed with Mr. DS and I sleep on the sofa, mainly because I retire much later and I don't want Isaac being overstimulated with the tv late in the evening.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

WebGuy wrote:

I go through phases too.

When I write things down, put them on a calendar, whatever . . . I remember them. After a while, I start to think "I rarely have to look at the schedule, so I'm just wasting time doing the schedule."

Then, when I stop doing the schedule, I start forgetting stuff because I didn't enter them into the schedule.

What kind of system are you using now?

I'm exactly the same way!

Now I've switched to being very email based. I've been asking my customers who call to follow up in an email. That'll help save my butt too when they say, "Well I didn't approve that," and I have it in writing. Then I also have a small stack of paper that I organize by when it comes in.

But what's really helped is the order that I process things. If I get something in the morning, my goal is to have it done by the end of the day. If I get something in the afternoon, my goal is to have it done by noon the next day. And some billing, it doesn't matter how much as long as it's something, has to be done by the end of the day. So if I get an email in the afternoon, I'm not letting myself work on it until the morning.

There is a third pile of longer projects that gets worked on in between. So if I've completed all of my morning tasks, a longer project gets worked on until noon instead of moving on to afternoon tasks.

It's really more of a mindset thing. I noticed that I tended to put older stuff aside to work on newer stuff. And I'm not letting people (especially coworkers) bully me into doing their stuff out of order. If they want moved up in the line, if they give me something in the morning, it's the first thing I work on in the afternoon, not the next thing I work on that morning. There were too many times that my customers were pushed aside for theirs, and that's just not fair to mine.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Sounds like a good plan, Mz.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Morning all. I have had it with this week already, no matter what day it is. For the second day in a row traffice has sucked. Yesterday was 1 and a half hours to get in here, today it wasn't much better, 1 hr 20 min. (and I left about 10-15 minutes later today). I am soooo tired of it.

I get spoiled when the kids aren't in school and people are off in July and August.

I too am more organized at work than home.

I would like a nap too please.

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

I also prefer to correspond via e-mail, especially with the NEEDY ONE. The problem with him though, is that he doesn't respond back most of the time. Instead he has to call, and the main reason I e-mail him is because I don't want to talk to him...

School traffic reminded me of a little incident yesterday on the way into work. I live out in the sticks, so there's about 4 miles of county road to the highway. Every morning on the way in, there's this kid in a newer model Ford one ton who has to drive the county road like he's on the expressway. I usually drive between 35 and 40 because as the days shorten and the weather cools, the deer start crossing in the mornings and evenings. Well, yesterday he zips around me, as he does every morning and hauls butt up the road. About a mile up, a deer crosses the road, and he swerved to avoid it -- right into the ditch. I stopped to see if he was ok (he was but the truck was stuck good), and he tell me, "If you wouldn't drive so slow..." confuse I had to cut him off and remind him that if he would have stayed behind me, the deer would have already crossed and he wouldn't have to explain to his parents how he wrecked his truck.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

I've taken to making lists too. I find it very helpful, not just for remembering things, but it is also a good way to make me feel like I've accomplished something. This is particularly the case on my personal time. If it weren't for my "to do" lists on the weekends, I'd probably never get anything done. If I write it down then I feel like I have to get it done just so I can mark it off.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

disco strangler wrote:
I stopped to see if he was ok (he was but the truck was stuck good), and he tell me, "If you wouldn't drive so slow..." I had to cut him off and remind him that if he would have stayed behind me, the deer would have already crossed and he wouldn't have to explain to his parents how he wrecked his truck.

And justice is served. :)

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Sounds like one of those people who hasn't come around to accepting responsibility for his own actions.

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

WebGuy wrote:

disco strangler wrote:
I stopped to see if he was ok (he was but the truck was stuck good), and he tell me, "If you wouldn't drive so slow..." I had to cut him off and remind him that if he would have stayed behind me, the deer would have already crossed and he wouldn't have to explain to his parents how he wrecked his truck.

And justice is served. :)

I thought so smile

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I'm sure when he told his parents how he crashed, he left out the part about driving too fast.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I am always making a list. Been doing it for years. That way I won't forget, but it also gives me that I did something feeling.