Working It.
Mar. 11th, 2007 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupToday was a fairly productive day, despite having even less sleep than I thought I would, because I forgot about that damn daylight savings thing.
Once I managed to wake up, I followed some of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kyotto's advice and spent some small but significant time on each of a number of things I've been wanting to move forward on. (My secret to taking good advice: categorically deny its worth when you first hear it, and after it has stewed in your mind for a while, present it as if it was your own original idea. You'll find it far more palatable that way.)
So, I signed up for a programming freelancing site (one of several I should register with, I think. If anyone has any recommendations of sites to add to my list, I'd like to hear them), and applied for a temporary job helping out on the provincial elections. I'm told they take just about anyone, so I should qualify.
Thentaxlady and I spent just over an hour going through stuff in the basement and putting it into keep, toss and recycle piles. This is necessary as we'll have to move all of the shelving around in order for the crapulous partition wall in the basement to be moved to a better location, and when that's done there'll be room for less total shelving than when we started. So, the more junk we can throw out, the better.
We only spent about an hour on it, becausetaxlady is rapidly ramping up to tax season, and she's already got deadlines. Still there is visible progress and much garbage to haul to the curb this evening. If we manage to spend an hour or two tomorrow as well as on Wednesday, we should get it all done before we hear back from the contractor as to when they'll be available to move the wall and do the other work they need to do. I certainly don't want to have to do all of the moving and sorting in a rush, because then I know we'll never throw anything out, we'll just move the piles around.
Then, whiletaxlady was cooking supper (a delicious jerk pork roast), I started clearing through my office and organizing it. It still has a long way to go, but at least there was progress made. Its so nice to have visible progress in the organizing side of things. I've grown very weary of living in a constant mess, so any diminishment of same helps my mood.
Somehow I also found time during all of this to print out a manual on the C++ standard library that I found online. I realize that I've never read through the library docs since they finally standardized the STL, and its the major area in which I'm fuzzy in my C++ programming. Once I've digested it, I'll be far more employable.
Now though, I'm finishing some after-dinner wine, and planning to go to bed as soon as I've taken the trash to the curb. I want to get up very early tomorrow, since I need to get up extremely early on Tuesday if I want to go to the Montreal Entrepreneur Tech Breakfast downtown. Its at 8:00 am, and it will probably take me 90 minutes or so to get there from the West pole. If you add in the time it takes me to wake up in the morning, I need to be setting a 5:00 am alarm, at the latest!
It seems that Montreal has gone from having no support for entrepreneurs to having many different events in a very short time. It makes me think that maybe I should give the whole 'starting my own business' idea a whirl again. Which reminds me, I should askpeaceful_dragon if he wants any manpower help with BarCampMontreal2. Its the sort of thing I want to encourage.
And on that note, I shall end this rather rambling journal entry, finish my wine, take the trash out, and go to bed.
G'Night all!
Once I managed to wake up, I followed some of
kyotto's advice and spent some small but significant time on each of a number of things I've been wanting to move forward on. (My secret to taking good advice: categorically deny its worth when you first hear it, and after it has stewed in your mind for a while, present it as if it was your own original idea. You'll find it far more palatable that way.)So, I signed up for a programming freelancing site (one of several I should register with, I think. If anyone has any recommendations of sites to add to my list, I'd like to hear them), and applied for a temporary job helping out on the provincial elections. I'm told they take just about anyone, so I should qualify.
Then
taxlady and I spent just over an hour going through stuff in the basement and putting it into keep, toss and recycle piles. This is necessary as we'll have to move all of the shelving around in order for the crapulous partition wall in the basement to be moved to a better location, and when that's done there'll be room for less total shelving than when we started. So, the more junk we can throw out, the better.We only spent about an hour on it, because
taxlady is rapidly ramping up to tax season, and she's already got deadlines. Still there is visible progress and much garbage to haul to the curb this evening. If we manage to spend an hour or two tomorrow as well as on Wednesday, we should get it all done before we hear back from the contractor as to when they'll be available to move the wall and do the other work they need to do. I certainly don't want to have to do all of the moving and sorting in a rush, because then I know we'll never throw anything out, we'll just move the piles around.Then, while
taxlady was cooking supper (a delicious jerk pork roast), I started clearing through my office and organizing it. It still has a long way to go, but at least there was progress made. Its so nice to have visible progress in the organizing side of things. I've grown very weary of living in a constant mess, so any diminishment of same helps my mood.Somehow I also found time during all of this to print out a manual on the C++ standard library that I found online. I realize that I've never read through the library docs since they finally standardized the STL, and its the major area in which I'm fuzzy in my C++ programming. Once I've digested it, I'll be far more employable.
Now though, I'm finishing some after-dinner wine, and planning to go to bed as soon as I've taken the trash to the curb. I want to get up very early tomorrow, since I need to get up extremely early on Tuesday if I want to go to the Montreal Entrepreneur Tech Breakfast downtown. Its at 8:00 am, and it will probably take me 90 minutes or so to get there from the West pole. If you add in the time it takes me to wake up in the morning, I need to be setting a 5:00 am alarm, at the latest!
It seems that Montreal has gone from having no support for entrepreneurs to having many different events in a very short time. It makes me think that maybe I should give the whole 'starting my own business' idea a whirl again. Which reminds me, I should ask
peaceful_dragon if he wants any manpower help with BarCampMontreal2. Its the sort of thing I want to encourage.And on that note, I shall end this rather rambling journal entry, finish my wine, take the trash out, and go to bed.
G'Night all!
