Daily Work Log 2006-08-01

August 1st, and there’s a storm entering the gulf. Less than a month until it’s 1 year post-Katrina.

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I now have a solid goal. Given that I probably have to be in Baltimore by August 24th, reality is setting in. I have 23 days, or just under three weeks, to defend my prospectus. Until today, I had not set a finite goal for when I’d like to have my draft complete.

The goal is now Friday. I want to have a complete draft, with references, by Friday. I hope that telling Teh Intarnets will help with my motivation.

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Daily Work Log 2006-07-26

I’m doing these (10+2)*5 work dashes, and trying to do a minimum of four per day, which I thought would be an easy minimum. Instead, it’s been a rather difficult minimum to maintain. When I try to set aside solid, 1-hour blocks to work on things, I realize how many little things interrupt me and require my attention throughout the day.

I really want to make that 4-dash minimum every day. I actually thought that 6 would be a good number per day, but that now seems outlandish.

I was at work for 10.5 hours yesterday, I worked on lab stuff all day, and yet I was only able to get in four dashes.

I find this intriguing. Is that spelled right?

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Day went by in a whirlwind. Had a hard time concentrating. Had to shut all the machines down in lab due to impending scheduled power outage. Out of here for the day.