Where you look back on everything at the end of the day and feel like you’ve been totally and utterly unproductive?
I’ve had several of those in a row now. I’ve set out with x, y and z on my to-do list and for one reason or another, most (or none) of them have gotten accomplished. I look back on what I’ve done, and there have been a bunch of small tasks, or things like familiarizing myself with pieces of code, but I haven’t actually “accomplished” anything tangible.
I’ve got Thursday and Friday off, so I’ve got to buckle down and get some things done… I need to get some coding done on a new project I’m working on, I need to get some blogging done here, and I need to get back to Gordon from NewsGator (no Gordon, I haven’t forgotten about you!) since it’s now been over a week since I told him I’d try and get him more detail about my problems the next morning.
To top it all off, I had to force myself away from the keyboard when I started writing an email to Ian (the Openomy guy) offering to write a PHP interaction class for the Openomy API… I guess there comes a point at which you just have to draw the line and start turning down projects, even if you think they’d be really cool and beneficial.
Who knows, if no one else has stepped up to the Openomy API-plate, maybe I’ll still slap something together… next month.
Maybe now’s the time to hire a secretary…
Hey Chris,
Thanks for thinking of working on the Openomy APIs, even if it didn’t work out. The Ruby bindings are in progress and I’ve had a volunteer for Python as well, but no one yet for PHP — if you ever have the time to work on PHP bindings, I’d love to have your help.
In the meantime, good luck finding that secretary and getting your projects completed. ;)
Have a good one,
Ian
Used to have them all the time in my last job.
I’d look at the list and not really feel enthused to do any of it, so I would goof off doing stuff that didn’t really matter. Then the next day the list was longer, I’d not feel enthused… vicious circle.
It would then take me 4 days to catch up on the 2 I had missed.
Slowly I learnt that no matter how distasteful or boring the task was, if I didn
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