A bona-fide procrastinator
I am a procrastinator. I always have been. I always will be. It's who I am. I've known this for most of my life, but it took me a really long time (I'm 50-plus) to admit it publicly (here) in writing. In the past I rationalized that it's because I'm a 'perfectionist'. True, I do have incredibly high standards, and, perversely, I'm somewhat proud of this flaw. More on this later. As an aside -- one of these days, I'm going to start a procrastinators club, whose only rule will be disqualification if you actually fill out the membership form and send it in. All others are automatically members. Yes, I'll do it right after I finish a few other things...
Even though I have a home page {obligatory link here}, and have been doing personal stuff on the internet since, about 1995, I've finally jumped onto the blog-wagon. Millions of others have blogs too, so only a handful of the public will ever see this, most, by accident. Well then, why am I doing it? Dunno, maybe its just something to do today, as a 'productive' activity, (but actually its a time-waster) hard to admit its just for myself, you know, the ego thing. I can see blogs as being therapy, sort of like talking to oneself, but without the psycho-babble stigma. Its nice that there are blog-dedicated websites and the web-forms that free the masses from having to learn html, tables, css style sheets, or {insert latest web language-du-jour here}, and avoid really bad designs, and allowing them to concentrate on 'content' such as it is. Of course the tradeoff is a certain bland, sameness. I'm sure you are bored already. This blogging craze is not all bad. We (yes, I'm one of the masses too) get to practice typing, work on spelling, grammer and better composition. I know it helps me organize my thoughts. It is, simply-put, brainwork, and I believe it definitely helps the school age ones -- it sure beats them watching the tube. Hmmm, this paragraph definitely needs editing... I'll have to come back to it.
I don't plan on keeping this up for long. I start a lot of things, then get bored and leave them unfinished. That's why my garage is full of broken stuff that is too good to chuck out, since its (technically) repairable. That's why it took 15 years or so to finish the bathroom - not even a remodel, just new paint, flooring, toilet, vanity, tile counter and sink. That's why I have about 15 computers around the house (well, OK, 3 in good working condition and on the internet and pieces of a dozen other computers), several old B&W and one new color laser printer, none currently connected (no time, no time). I just had a thought, maybe I'm not a procrastinator after all. I don't put off things, I do start a lot of stuff, I just never (or I take a long time to) finish. Perhaps I'm just incredibly talented, and also even more incredibly busy.
Even though I have a home page {obligatory link here}, and have been doing personal stuff on the internet since, about 1995, I've finally jumped onto the blog-wagon. Millions of others have blogs too, so only a handful of the public will ever see this, most, by accident. Well then, why am I doing it? Dunno, maybe its just something to do today, as a 'productive' activity, (but actually its a time-waster) hard to admit its just for myself, you know, the ego thing. I can see blogs as being therapy, sort of like talking to oneself, but without the psycho-babble stigma. Its nice that there are blog-dedicated websites and the web-forms that free the masses from having to learn html, tables, css style sheets, or {insert latest web language-du-jour here}, and avoid really bad designs, and allowing them to concentrate on 'content' such as it is. Of course the tradeoff is a certain bland, sameness. I'm sure you are bored already. This blogging craze is not all bad. We (yes, I'm one of the masses too) get to practice typing, work on spelling, grammer and better composition. I know it helps me organize my thoughts. It is, simply-put, brainwork, and I believe it definitely helps the school age ones -- it sure beats them watching the tube. Hmmm, this paragraph definitely needs editing... I'll have to come back to it.
I don't plan on keeping this up for long. I start a lot of things, then get bored and leave them unfinished. That's why my garage is full of broken stuff that is too good to chuck out, since its (technically) repairable. That's why it took 15 years or so to finish the bathroom - not even a remodel, just new paint, flooring, toilet, vanity, tile counter and sink. That's why I have about 15 computers around the house (well, OK, 3 in good working condition and on the internet and pieces of a dozen other computers), several old B&W and one new color laser printer, none currently connected (no time, no time). I just had a thought, maybe I'm not a procrastinator after all. I don't put off things, I do start a lot of stuff, I just never (or I take a long time to) finish. Perhaps I'm just incredibly talented, and also even more incredibly busy.
As a start until I move it to its own page, this blog entry is just a list of stuff I would like to do if I had the:
1) Time
2) Energy
3) Skills
4) Incentive
5) Money
Not necessarily in that order.
My current project list:
finish bathroom (hang mirror, buy and install floor molding, touch up a couple of paint defects, install new light fixture). I've started to document the project (sorry, no 'before' photos) on my home page.
hack a hummer (c-64 dtv, you'll have to look it up)
get my gps (sirf, oem) board working (have all parts, battery, case, etc.)
use lcd displays from old nokia CDMA phones (got these really cheap, like $1-2 each)
use atmel butterfly microprocessor demo board
(with lcd as input/output for the gps above, may need a bit of code)
ti MSP-430 device (what fun stuff can I do with it?)
?? hacking a cellphone for its gps. they're cheap now (maybe as low as $10 used)
play with the mattel juicebox lcd -- currently photo/mp3 player already (as is)
more home repair/decorating projects -- coordinate with the boss
yardwork (ditto)
finish another computer --
This one is built on the cheap but high end (Surplus Dell 9100 in MT case $95, Intel Pentium-D 820 dual core, (Dell HS from SFF $20, AS-5 $5), 1 G OCX DDR2-5400, 16x DVD RW, ATI 16x pci-x X-600 but only 128M, SB-Live 24 bit, Two SATA-1 160GB in raid-1)
learn linux
collect Palm pilots (new)
...more
Well, enough for now. I 'll be back
posted by mr2yu at 8:47 AM
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