Welcome to 2024, everyone! This year, I plan on resuming my aborted “Blogging Every Day” and “Drawing Every Day” experiments (and, perhaps, even “Music Every Day”). But let’s focus first on the blogging. I really enjoy reading the blogs of people who regularly take out the time to comment on the world, because it gives me a view not just into their thought process but into the gears of the world as they grind.
As for my gears grinding, this first day of the new year has been quite busy! It feels like I did nothing, as there were things that I had planned to do this morning that never happened. But, actually, I spent a few hours managing (counts them) 8 research projects and 2 nonfiction book proposals, met with a friend/research colleague online, did some prepwork for the Neurodiversiverse, helped my wife with some plane tickets, resolved issues with some online systems, and hung out with a cat.
Little of that was on my agenda, but it all has to get done. And it’s easy to forget that. One way I’ve been using to track that is Clockify, which I started using when my consulting business picked up a bit. It really helps you see what you’ve been spending your time on – or neglecting – if you remember to use it.
Of course, one of the things I had wanted to do this morning was enter my hours for the weekend. Time to get to timing it.
-the Centaur
Pictured: Downtown Greenville’s Falls Park.
