Goal review, week ending 2/18/05

1. Read the Bible again. I really enjoy that, because it helps me get in the mood for church, and it does make my week go a lot better.


2. Yes, I survived the campout. Took us a while to get to the site (near Green Valley), but we got set up, cooked burgers over a campfire, and just had a good time. I purchased a sleeping bag and pillow on sale from the local sporting goods store, and was able to load up my old missionary grocery backpack with some good stuff. I walked to the church from the apartment (just under a mile), met everybody, and we were off. I woke up at 4:45 (my usual time, argh) and got up and walked around outside for a bit... it was so clear and bright out, it was really peaceful and amazing. This morning, before setting off, the boys played paintball, and then we had a gun safety class (it was a Boy Scouts campout, after all) -- I got to shoot four different kinds of guns, and it was not as bad as I thought it would. I still have respect for guns, that's for sure, and have seen what they can do (well, to cans... and to one person), but I'm not as opposed to them as I used to be. I am definitely interested in the whole "survival" aspect of camping, and not just using it as a recreational experience. Got me a nice sunburn, too -- in the middle of February! That's worse than the one I got in November. At least I had my winter hat pulled down over my ears, so it's just my lower face and neck that got mildly burned, but still... in February!


3. The Cannery was also a good experience, although it is a shame, because some of our youth don't really seem to have respect for their leaders. Oh well... that will come and I can only hope and pray to do my best.


4. For some reason, I can't post to the classifieds at work. I need to fix that. I do have the ad all ready to go, just need to put it on there!


5. Did absolutely no writing this week -- I've been sick and not really with it. I would like to make more productive use of my "down time" during the day when it's just me, and Elizabeth is asleep, instead of just aimlessly surfing the Net.


6. No progress on the bookmarks since I spent most of the time this week working from home, due to being sick.


7. Somewhat learned the songs on the piano, but I need to listen to the songs. I have a CD of them -- somewhere.

Project results - 10 letter words

That took entirely not long at all.

Out of 20,000+ ten letter words in the word list that I was using, there are 1,104 words which are made up of ten unique letters. My co-worker will be surprised, I think.

Ongoing project update

I saw a list of Rolling Stone's 500 Top 500 Albums Ever, and decided to start work on that, one or two albums at a time, and see what I can do. I'm using the public library as a resource for this project. I went through and marked all of the albums that I currently own (I'm keeping the list on my wiki), and it's kind of depressing, that I own next to nothing of them. What do you mean, Rush isn't on there at all? Very depressing.

At least my favorite rap group of all time, Public Enemy, has three albums on there. I feel good about that, and don't really need the excuse to listen to PE.

Currently I have checked out Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" and Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours." I've never really listened to much Sinatra, despite my heritage, and WOW, this is really good. Of course, many would say it's his all-time best album, and I don't blame them. I'm about halfway through it, and it's a keeper.

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Another project is, someone at work has asked me to think of words which are 10 letters long but do not have any repeat letters, i.e. 10 unique letters. This is as good a time as any to whip up the old Boggle project program, and this isn't going to take any four hours to get done. I'll have the results of that one up shortly, I expect.

Goals, week ending 2/18/2006

1. First goal this week is to read Luke 20-John 5.


2. Second goal, and most important to me, is to survive the campout with the Young Men on Friday and Saturday. This is my first time camping, and it promises to be fun - plus, all the other Young Men leaders are having a good time at my expense, since I am the rookie. I need to bring some sort of chips for sustenance.


3. Also, the Priests Quorum is working at the cannery on Wednesday night. This is good, because it's closer to the band practice space, which I think is also on Wednesday night, even though Daniel will be in Minnesota.


4. Goal is to post the computer desk on the classifieds at work. We'll start at $100 for an asking price and see what happens from there.


5. Finish my character interactions for the mystery. Part of this will be defining a stronger character for the detective, as I am not including him in the character interactions, since he is not a "regular" part of the community.


6. Since I will be working from home as well as from Intuit, take some time and fix all of the bookmarks between the two places, then get them standardized so everything is the same between both places, and I don't lose links or passwords, or anything like that. I really enjoy the idea of having my most frequently used links in bookmarks, anyway, since I really don't like the idea of having to hunt through my address bar history to see where I've been. Perhaps once I get the .html page ready for bookmarks, I can load it to the wiki -- I will need one for FF and one for IE, since there are places I can go in IE that I can't go in FF, namely, CRIS. Wow, this is a long entry, but it's more my motivations behind the goal than the actual goal itself.


7. Radioburn has a concert on the 25th! There are two songs that I need to learn that have piano in them. Let's have the piano part at least somewhat worked out by Wednesday.

And that's it!

The week in review, week ending 2/11/2006

How can I post a review of goals that I didn't even make?

Here's what I accomplished this week:

• Read Luke 9-19.


• Cleaned off and got a nice photo of the computer desk to post on the classifieds at work tomorrow


• Picked up a new video card for my monitor; now when I work from home, I actually will have the real estate on my screen to have more than one window visible at one time.


• Got a whole bunch of software installed on the other computer, and got Windows activated. The drum machine still doesn't work to my satisfaction, but then again, I'm not entirely convinced that it's not something with my MIDI configuration.


• Began defining relationships between the characters in my murder mystery. It's interesting, because I'm starting to see the people really come to life, which is a good thing. This was probably the best first step for me to do, before outlining the story, because each character's interaction will help move the story along (of course).


• Discovered and implemented a list server at Ta-da Lists to help me keep track of things that I need to do, especially with the move coming up. I really enjoy keeping all of this data on the Internet, it makes it about 1,000 times easier to share it between the two computers. More on this in next week's goals.


• Made some posts on NADB. Feels good, although I'd like it to be a bit more highbrow. Hey, writing is writing, right?

Weekly goals in review, 2/5/06

Review of goals accomplished this week...

1. Yep, read the Bible. Yep, on Sunday.


2. I don't know exactly how much I got done as far as outlining goes, but I did get some character sketches done. Also, getting those character sketches done has given me an idea as to what characters I need, and how they will relate to each other.


3. No gym this week.


4. First hard drive crashed, so no Battery. Unfortunately. But I was able to reinstall Windows and get everything set up, and I've also experimented with some really interesting VST plugins. So, long story short, the bedroom studio is set up again.


5. Completely spaced on the bookshelves and computer desk.

Goals, Week Ending 2/5/06

Here are my goals for the upcoming week...

1. Read Luke 1-8. Yes, another loaded goal.


2. Outline three more chapters in the book, and come up with character descriptions for the detective and the victim.


3. Gym goal is contingent upon my doctor's appointment on Tuesday. I don't know if I'll be able to hit the gym as much as I'd like to.


4. GET THE BEDROOM COMPUTER UP TO SPEED. Find out what the fastest processor the motherboard will take, because they have some used ones at Bookman's. I also need to get the old version of Battery installed on there from the old hard drive, and then get everything up to speed.


5. In preparation for the move: put the computer desk and bookshelves on the classified ad bulletin at work

Week in Review, 1/22/06-1/28/06

Here's a review of everything that I've had going on last week...

1. Yep, I read the Bible chapters Sunday morning. Did it again this week, to. It's actually amazing that I got any reading done outside of the Dark Elf Trilogy.


2. Didn't make the gym, didn't see the fitness consultant. I had a doctor's appointment, and that messed me up because I had to be fasting and some other stuff, so I skipped the gym this week.


3. Bedroom computer crashed. Need to reinstall Windows before getting any of that "creative stuff" done.


4. Found the info on the practice space for the band, and found a manager, too.


5. For the murder mystery: I have a few more chapters outlined, but not the rest of the book as I thought I would have.

So... not a good week as far as accomplishing goals went by. I had some things sidetrack me (a non-functional printer, a series of really good books), but hopefully this week I'll get a bit back on track.

Goals, Week Ending 1/28/06

Goals for this week...

1. Read Mark 6-16. You've guessed right if you say I've already done it.


2. Gym 3 times this week, and make time to see the 'fitness consultant' who is in the gym on Wednesday afternoons. Overall goal: more productive workouts.


3. I'm shelving 50 Words of Fiction, because, face it, I wasn't giving much thought to it anyway. This week's creative exploration involves getting all those song ideas I have written down into actual music.


4. I also have some commitments to the band, namely, finding info on a practice space, and finding a place for us to have our promo picture taken. Also, start thinking on where we can get a gig.


5. For the murder mystery: Outline the remainder of the book, and have at least five chapters fleshed out.

Goal review: Week Ending 1/21/06

Another week in review...

1. I had the Bible chapters read on Sunday morning, even before posting them. It's a good routine: get up, read, then post on the blog, then get ready for church.


2. I got to the gym three times this week. I would like to do more on the exercise bike, but there are some problems with that.


3. Still no work on the 50 Words of Fiction... I'm not sure if I did anything creative (except the book) this week. SAD FACE.


4. I wasn't inspired to work on the detective character this week, but I did start outlining the book. I feel good about that. I have the format of the book, and also what the prologue and third chapter are going to be. It's good progress, and I'm pleased with it.


5. Almost got the recording studio at 100% -- the only problem is the software program I'm using for drums isn't working like the previous version... I have to get the old version off the old hard drive, and strangely enough, I'm not motivated enough to swap hard drives yet again. I do need to get that done since I have some ideas I would like to put down.