This was the craziest weekend. I prepared my brains out to speak at my home church on Sunday, but we got snowed out. No reschedule on the map, so that message will be just for me I guess. =)
Worst part is, I studied until the 11th hour, only to realize the cancellation was on my voice mail from hours earlier that day. Think of all the Mario Kart I could've been playing. =)
Loved taking moments to play in the snow with my kids. We built a monstrous igloo made out of packed snow from buckets. It took me at least two hours and then Wyatt and Dylan knocked it down. Lovely.
This is Dylan in the window. He's just as much fun as he looks.
I spent Sunday evening putting finishing touches on book proposal number two, which I shipped off this morning to Yates & Yates. Everyone needs a good blizzard now and then to get projects done.
No twitter and snow blizzards help you "ship."
HA. You sound like Marc. He twittled his thumbs for a long time on Sunday. Then just gave in and had fun. I'm thinking God was trying to tell you all something. LOL
Posted by: DisneyCyndi | February 01, 2010 at 03:05 PM
Me thinks the Wii Nunchuk is glued to your boys hand. :) (BTW... Nice Godin SHIP reference).
Posted by: Daniel Decker | February 01, 2010 at 09:26 PM
Congrats on getting the proposal out there! Excited to hear what is in store.
Posted by: Sam Mahlstadt | February 02, 2010 at 01:53 AM
Yeah, I remember my days in hi tech. It was boom and bust. 80 hour weeks for months, then a layoff or the end of a contract. Then a few weeks of unemployment, with a couple hours a day of handing out resumes. But mostly getting projects done. And you worked like heck, knowing a good job was only days away. And you didn't want to leave the kitchen sink unconnected and the wall opened up. There is a certain amount of inertia in any hiring process, so I learned to immediately walk in the door and start the big project. I had a "safe week", and could usually get to a "silver point" and hook up temporary wiring and plumbing in a week.
In retirement, my job is pretty steady and, barring a Richter 9 earthquake, there's steady work all the time, and limited to 56 or 62 hours a week. Projects are more algorithmic, than schedule driven, and the work time interspersions allow me to think about minor changes and improvements in the projects. Plus, work has a lot of free time, when you don't mind making a simple cardboard mockup of something. And you see that moving a door an inch, or adding half an inch to a drawer makes a difference.
I've learned to be "shovel ready" for when an opportune gap comes up. I will label a box with the project name and put the parts and tools in the same box (like object oriented programming).
I would bet that writing a book proposal, creating Whiteboard, etc., is a lot like remodeling a kitchen or building library furniture.
Posted by: Mike O | February 02, 2010 at 08:52 AM
If you can beat Ben Arment in Mario Kart you get a free WIBO registration!!
Posted by: Ryan Shaughnessy | February 02, 2010 at 10:25 AM