Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Today's small achievements...

Finished the Prep report. Learnt how the tables related to each other, it took me 5 minutes, David Allen was right on that, the fear of not having all that is required is what keeps you from starting.
*Finished my digital homing pigeon’s proof of concept, “CherAmi”. The idea (Wich I got at 5:00 am this morning as an excuse to skip the gym) was to send a direct message to cherami’s twitter and it would relay it to me via sms (other people had done it but my cell company doesn’t have a web gateway). Learnt to manipulate xml using *arghhh
vbscript, Java for the server interface and curl for the twitter api.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Hopefully My 7 Answers for next weekend:

1. What did I fail?

Nothing. I acomplished everything I wanted to.

2. What am I resisting?

Nothing.

3. What did I do well?
Stuck to my schedule. Finished everything I wanted to finish this week. Made progress towards next week’s goals. Overdeliver. Completed all the contracts I made with myself.

4. What can I do better?
Repeat this success more often…

5. Were you the person you want to be during the past week?
Yes.

6. Did I get closer to achieving my short, medium, and long-term goals?
Short: My Thesis. I delivered the text and completed a demo.
Medium: I got an agreement with my boss about the payment of my allowances and with that info scheduled payments on my credit cards, sent a complaint letter to my ISP about the situation with my account.
Long term: Back in my two feets, only one credit card, looking for a new 8-6 job, starting another career, being sucessful with my freelance work, travel trough Central America for a month doing volunteer work.

7. What am I grateful for?
Making my dreams real, at least the ones I know I can.

My 7 answers...

1. What did I fail?

-Handling monday’s crisis properly

2. What am I resisting?

-Avoiding the confrontation required to get the office to pay the allowances they owe me and get my finances into balance.

3. What did I do well?
-Cleaned the house, well I was manic (still I am I think hehehe, I’d rearranged my books a dozen times in the last two hours)

4. What can I do better?
-Stick to my schedule

5. Were you the person you want to be during the past week?
-No, I lose my cool hahahaha, that shouldn’t had happened, I used to handle the office stress quite well, guess is the lack of sex hehehe.

6. Did I get closer to achieving my short, medium, and long-term goals?
Short: Finish my thesis, nop
Medium: Go back in balance, nop, being avoiding that meeting with my boss.
Long term: I don’t even want to see beyond december, and I’m running out of time, only less than 50 days to change things.

7. What am I grateful for?
Spending a week with beautiful minds, devoting the weekend to my home.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Today's

1. Alia’s health is improving
2. My second attempt to prepare Jerk Chicken got great raves
3. Mom
4. Trough couchsurfing hosting Helio from Brazil, Manuel from Spain and Dominic from Germany, three very refreshing mindsets.
5. The mirror-like quality of the sea this morning with all those towering clouds hanging above it.

Friday, November 09, 2007

Progress...

Water:

  • Found a way to avoid the water keeping pouring after the timer turned off the bomb. The tank gets filled with two gallons of water, the setup looks awfull but I’ll work on the aesthetics next sunday, the mechanical timer I got has increments of 5 minutes, however the soil keeps moist with far less water than just pouring a whole jar on it. Sub-task 1 completed.
    Sometimes I forget and leave open the shower out of habit, need to work on that.
    *The pitcher advice worked well.
    *Got a sponge based mop and ditched the strands based ones, it takes less water to rinse it.
    *I’m doing the laundry once a week instead of every other day.

Gas:

Turned off the water heater. Only miss it in the morning :-(
Since I’m on a diet I’m not cooking big dishes, every dish I cook takes less than two minutes to get ready.
*Hanging instead of using the drying machine.

Electricty:

Being unable to find those motion sensing sockets for the lights.
Replaced all the incandescents bulbs at home by fluorescents less the one at the living room but I barely use the living at night anyways.
*Unpluggin any charger/electronics I’m not using.
*Tracking solar chargers for small electronics in town.

Gasoline:

Don’t own a car so no problem on that.
*Hiring cabs already with passengers. Using public transport or walk whenever I can. There are taxis using gas instead of gasoline out there, but they are the minority, thinking on making an arrangement with one to take me to work every morning and when I need to do errands out of public transportation routes.

Air Travel:
*None planned this year

The Carbon footprint calculator puts mine down average, that’s cool!!! Will mark this done.

Efforts...

Water:

  • Found a way to avoid the water keeping pouring after the timer turned off the bomb. The tank gets filled with two gallons of water, the setup looks awfull but I’ll work on the aesthetics next sunday, the mechanical timer I got has increments of 5 minutes, however the soil keeps moist with far less water than just pouring a whole jar on it. Sub-task 1 completed.
    *Sometimes I forget and leave open the shower out of habit, need to work on that.
    *The pitcher advice worked well.
    *Got a sponge based mop and ditched the strands based ones, it takes less water to rinse it.
    *I’m doing the laundry once a week instead of every other day.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

A platform that looks solid enough for Timelines

I found Croquet quite by accident, I was trying to find if Squeak still thrived and found a link to the Croquet project. They have an SDK, it’s a 2D/3D platform and it looks very mature. Wonder if can be adapted to be the Timelines engine.

Monday, November 05, 2007

My 5 things...

1. Being able to remember and share our life experiences with others.
2. Sharing an evening with aunt Mima, uncle Manuel, mom and grandma listening to grandma’s histories of her youth.
3. For having a family.
4. For all the advice from the Corgi-L group on Alia’s health.
5. John, sending me a virtual hug trough facebook when he learnt I was down because of Alia being sick.