Overactive imagination, underactive action
July 24th, 2007There’s something I do that really bugs me: not doing. I’m really excellent at coming up with cunning plans and genius schemes (not as genius as Sarah’s Cheese Sander though) and then completely failing to actually do it. I’m quite good at doing what I say I’ll do with work, stuff tends to get done (although I have six days to complete the big giant database…) but with projects and things I’m pretty crap.
Here’s an immediate list of things I haven’t done that I said I would (in a hope that writing them down will make me do them):
- Buy bits for and finish the MythTV box
- Blog about the Arduino that I said I’d do some days ago
- Figure out how to make the 8×8 LED bricks work and design a PCB for them
- Retrofit a Luxeon LED into an old lamp to make it cool (and to make it work…)
So here’s the plan: Manage my time a bit better so I have a bit of spare time to actually do this stuff. I tend put all my time into one thing and then fry myself working on it. I need to spread my time around a bit over the different things I need to do and I’d like to do. We’ll see how it goes.
I’m not looking at an old processor heatsink sitting on my (unnaturally tidy) desk and thinking that it would look pretty cool with a Luxeon stuck on it too. Luxeon LEDs look totally cool to start with. Another one for the list…
And the Whoopometer!
- Sarah @ 24 July 2007That too…
- Al @ 24 July 2007I might recommend
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