I am finding it absolutely bizarrely and astonishingly difficult to concentrate on anything here at work.
Perhaps it’s the surroundings, people talking around me, the occasional yet repeated recorded voice coming from a novelty biscuit container on someone’s desk…
“Stop. Move Away From The Cookie Jar… Stop. Move Away From the Cookie Jar…”
Then there are the damn melody ring-tones on people’s phones… horrifying elevator-muzak renditions of “Greensleeves” or “Minute Waltz”… Nokia base ringtones…
Or perhaps it’s that I’m bored again.
I’ve achieved another milestone writing documentation that — frankly — I can do in my sleep. There’s no challenge again. I’ve got Wiki happening here in my workplace, after spending 8 months in Hellstra trying to convince them of its value, so that’s good. However, now I’ve achieved that, I have nothing to occupy my massive intellect… Marvin, can you pick-up that piece of paper? Can I pick-up that piece of paper? Here I am, brain the size of…
Oh never mind.
So what’s the problem?
Potentially it’s that I’m a bit malnourished; had a funny (not ha-ha) tummy yesterday which wasn’t good. Have had good amounts of protein today, but definitely need to get off my posterior and buy some decent food at Fruit Peddlers this weekend. I didn’t make it last weekend, preferring to sit on my arse and do things around the home. Which was all well and good until it got to the point where I needed to eat.
I have decided to get myself a whiteboard and two pens: one that’s eraseable and one that’s not.
With the one that’s not, I shall draw boxes down the board, and add the the following Must Do items:
1. Eat Protein, Carbs, Vegetables (No Sugar!)
2. Drink Water
3. Sleep by 9.30
…and draw some more boxes down the board
Then with the eraseable one, I shall write additional daily tasks, such as:
Get parking permit for front of house
Get Cat registered
Start TP site research
Learn about MySQL db backup and Restore
…etc
I desperately need to get organised again. I had a neat system while I was living in Northcote before S&E moved in, and that was run on an ActiveCollab system, where I had ongoing tasks, and daily tasks. Wasn’t perfect by any stretch, but it seemed to work. Now that they’ve gone commercial, I don’t use it. But I’ve still got an old install on the website of course…
The beauty of this was it was accessible anywhere that had a net connection. I should perhaps set it up again at home. Stick one of my ubiquitous iMacs in the kitchen and work off that..?
But for now, the low-tech whiteboard will suffice.
