I know we could all use some of these tips. Sometimes it seems like there’s just too much trying to grab our attention every day. And most of the time it’s completely unnecessary.
Brian Oberkirch has a great post about scaling back some of the things that try to grab our attention.
* I’m checking email Dr. Pepper style, at 10,2 and 4. Batching should help, and also making it a sprint to process my inbox within 10 to 15 minutes. ‘Reply to’ stuff goes in that folder. Stuff I note and might want later goes to ‘Archive’. Stuff I never need again gets deleted. You can delete a ton of your email. Really. Process voice mails at the same time. (I’ll also do an RSS feed run at these times. I’ll reward myself with a flickr/twitter/mefi review if I’m a good boy.)
* No email review in the morning as I start my machine.
When I was out playing golf at the Hooch in Duluth last weekend there was a company picnic going on right next to the golf course. They were playing a bunch of loud party music which wasn’t too bad until you got right there next to it, then it was kind of distracting.
The wierdest thing about it though, there was one of those inflatable slide things for kids to play on, and this one was made to look like the sinking Titanic. Now the Titanic was a disaster and hundreds of people died because of it, why would they decide to make a children’s playground out of it?
That’s like saying why don’t we just make a playground toy that recreates the Challenger, or how about the Hindenburg?
Whitney and I went looking at houses last weekend and we saw one that we really liked, and it’s a real house! It is a little older (built in 1997) but it is a better deal than the townhouses we looked at. Plus, we’d have a yard for our dog Chloe to run around in.
We haven’t decided if this is going to be the one, but we both feel really good about this one.
We’re just keeping our fingers crossed that we get it.
Update: This house went under contract before we could even put a bid on it, back to looking at Brownstone Square townhouse again. May 2007
Whitney and I are looking at buying a home pretty soon. Right now we’re looking at a new townhouse in Marietta. But there’s also some others that we might be interested in. I really hope we can get in one this summer, but we’ll just have to see.
I can’t say the playoffs went as well as I would have hoped. But it has been one hell of a year. They really fought hard to win the division and caught a tough break having to play the Rangers first in the post-season. They’ve been on fire and really kept up that intensity when they played Atlanta.
I’m a little worried about who will be coming back next year. We only have 8 guys under contract. Kovalchuk and our goalies will still be around. But a lot of our other stars like Tkachuk and Hossa, I hope we can give them some kind of contract or we may have seen the last of them.
For now, it’s time to watch the Braves as they’re off to a great start.
I really look forward to watching more Thrashers hockey and I still believe in Blueland!
So partly out of my own boredom and the feeling that I’ve been wasting this space that I am paying money for, I’m going to go through and redesign this site. I want to use it as kind of a portfolio/keeping up with everyone site.
I also want to try to move it over to Dreamhost fairly soon. I’ve read some good things about them and really want to get into trying more Ruby stuff out.
(I figured if I posted up something about doing this, that it would actually force me to do it.)
But I still haven’t quite figured out the best use for this blog. Until then, the randmoness continues!
Tough loss for the Thrashers last night. They played really well though, I’m still excited about this series. Both teams have really come to play and it showed.
The Thrashers are about to start their Stanley Cup Playoff run against the New York Rangers and I for one am psyched. This is the first time they’ve made the postseason and they’ve done it with winning the Southeast Division.
I think they’ve got a very good shot with Kari Lehtonen in goal and the additions of Keith Tkachuck and Alexei Zhitnik. They’ve really come alive toward the end of the season. There was a while during the middle of the season when they started to slump a little and really fell behind in their power plays and penalty kills.
I think as long as they can keep up the intensity they have a very good chance to bring the cup home to Blueland!
