Lot to do
It is hard to believe that it is after midnight now. There just doesn’t seem to be enough time to do everything I want to do these days. This is mostly a good thing: there are a lot of activities that interest me at the moment, so I am never at a loss for something to do and enjoy. Here is a list of activities I have wanted to pursue in the past couple of days, only a subset of which have been accomplished or attempted.
- Play with Cakewalk. Use it to record some of my musical compositions, with multiple vocal and instrumental tracks.
- Order more stamps from Iowa Stamps & Coins for my ongoing (but unnamed) philatelic art project. Work on the art project. Transfer the pieces to a new album.
- Work on a redesign of mcgees.org.
- Install the new printer that has been sitting on my floor, in a box, since the day after Christmas.
- Play some more with the new TiVo.
- Watch some of the movies recorded by it.
- Listen to my new CDs from Christmas.
- Research the sport of fencing.
- Add advertising to ScotchFinder (the advertisers are arranged, I just need to do some re-coding of the site.) Add the ability to search the database via a toll-free telephone number.
- Research whale deafness.
- Continue reading The Annotated Alice, Infinite Jest, and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
- Research PocketPCs, potentially to buy one soon.
- Make hotel reservations for the UK trip.
- Search Fresh Air archives.
- Buy add-ons to the hamster habitats.
- Clean my study.
- Reinstall Microsoft Visual Studio at home from my CDs, which I haven’t done since my hard drive crashed.
These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. (You probably think some of these are fake, thrown in for humor. That is not the case. Even the whale one.) Implicitly on the list, of course, is to write about the activities in this ‘blog.
My makeshift way of dealing with the situation has been to get 5.5 hours of sleep per night. I think this is beginning to take a toll. It’s getting close to 12:30. I will probably go watch half an hour of “Antiques Roadshow” on TiVo, pour a malt, maybe scoop a bit of Ben and Jerry’s (which is, by the way, now the most popular tourist attraction in Vermont. Yikes.)
More descriptions of the activities on the list will follow, as time permits. I have found that it is frequently easier to write about one’s experiences doing something after one has already done the something. Wish me luck for making the time.
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