I set my goals low and reachable this weekend… Replace the shower faucet.
Now, on Sunday night, I can say “mission accomplished”.
This works much better than when I have 20 things on my “to do” list – of which 19 or 20 don’t get done before the weekend is over.
I guess from now on, I’ll try to keep my home repair list to one item at a time – even though I have about 4 million tasks that really need to be done.
Actually, my dog and cats have fleas. This is the first time in about 8 years that any of our pets have experienced a problem with fleas. But the bugs have won the batter (so far) this year.
Now I need to decide between battling the little beasts over the next two months, or just burning down my house. The latter will be easier, but probably less convenient in the long run.
Looks like it’s chemical time.
Ah! OK, I know how to get my Monday out-of-control work schedule back under control…
I need to get one of those awesome big rubber stamps that says “REJECTED”.
Armed with this cool stamp, I can simply plaster a big red REJECTED stamp on every request that comes in to me, thus allowing me to complete the work I had planned on doing.
Of course, most of the requests come in to me via email, so this stamp plan might require a bit more though – or I’ll be spending the days cleaning the ink off of my monitor.
Speaking of HDTV (yeah, I have been), I never realized how many people in the world were in such great need of a good acne treatment. This is something that you just really didn’t notice on the old standard definition TV.
For the most part, actors and actresses still look fine – thanks to the miracles and magic of makeup. But when you get the live shots of unsuspecting people on your local stations, that’s where it starts getting scary.
Well, after being on the Google Voice waiting list for well over a year, I finally got my account, number, and I’m all set up.
Worth the wait?
I’ve been playing around with it for the weekend and it is definitely cool. Some very neat features, although the “transcription” service is still a bit on the rough side. Being Google though, I have no doubt that it will be improved.
Best of all, I was able to snag a really awesome phone number. I guess that in itself makes it worth it.
As for the rest of the service, I’ll give it a few months and see what happens.
OK, I might not need that new TV quite yet… I just need a new plasma mount for one of the spares and then I can set it up in my office (my home office, not my office office).
This should work out perfectly, and save me $1,000 or so at the same time. I’d much rather keep the money in my hands rather than shelling it over to the electronics store.
I’ve gone a long time without disability insurance. Sure, I have great medical insurance, home insurance, auto insurance and life insurance. But what about long-term disability?
I guess this is something that I always just thought wouldn’t happen to me. And, luckily, I’ve been right about that for the past 20 years. I’m starting to feel like I’m pushing my luck though. It could be from seeing all of the people that have become unemployed recently, and how they’re struggling due to the loss of income. It makes sense to protect yourself where you can since some things will be outside of your control.
I hate it when I start getting really motivated for the work week late on Sunday.
Now, this is not a common occurance. Usually I just get depressed on Sundays, knowing that I’ll be heading back to the office on Monday. But, occasionally, a strong sense of motivation grips me on Sunday, and I’ll get this great plan of all the things I’ll accomplish come Monday morning.
Then, Monday morning the alarm goes off, and I drag myself out of bed and crawl into the office.
There will be 50 emails waiting for me, 10 voicemail messages, and at least 1 meeting.
At that point, the motivation is gone, and I’m left with nothing other than counting down the days to the next weekend.
OK, now I’m depressed again…
Why is it that no matter how many televisions I may have in my house, I still have a hard time finding one that’s not being used when I choose to use it?
Ironically, we have more TVs than people. Generally, there is nothing on worth watching, but still they are always “occupied”.
I guess we can thank the video games and movies. Perhaps it’s time to add a few more sets to the home.
And speaking of pizza (as we so often are), why not include some weight loss pills with each order?
I would eat twice as much pizza if I didn’t worry about the weight gain. Heck, maybe even add them as a topping… Pepperoni, mushrooms, and weight loss pills.
OK, not safe… I know. We can stick to keeping them separate I guess. But I still think it would be a good addition to the pizza menu.
