Category: Personal

I have a screen door that leads to the garage.  It’s had a tear in it since around Christmas.  It was one of those jobs that I wanted to get to, but there were always other priorities that seemed to pushed it away.

I finally tackled it this weekend, and the effect on my mental health has  caused me to re-evaluate how I prioritize tasks.

I looked at that screen every day, and it was a reminder on how things are always breaking down.  As you let tasks like that linger, you will come to believe “everything is breaking down”.  So in the future, if the task affects how I will perceive things, I will add a “factor X” to its priority.

I’d love to hear your take on that subject.

If it’s not bad enough to confront ordinary problems, one is confounded by problems we beget of our own making.  Such is it with these three fellows.

A stray cat showed up, staying under our back porch.  She went away, or so we thought, until one day we were ambushed by a snarling cat, protecting a litter of kittens.  We trapped the mother and took her to animal control, because she was aggressive, but the kittens were too light to set the trap, and too fast to catch them all.

I had never seen kittens grow up, and grew rather fond over the circus act they put on every day.  Time has gone by, and now they are almost cats.  What should I do?

I wish you all the best in 2013.

I’ve been working on a few things over the holiday break, and I’ll pull it together with some new resolutions in a few days.

Well, my time with the NBA.com development team is drawing to an end.  My contract was up at the end of September and I got notified it was extended a month last Friday. So I was happy for the weekend.

But, I had already interviewed for another job, and after careful consideration, decided that I would take it, if offered.  There were things there, that I wanted to learn.  And today it was.

I like where I am.  I prayed about it.  I thought about that every time I think about being ABLE to specialize in something, I get driven back to the generalist role.  And then the thought came to me that I could come back someday.  “Better. Stronger. Faster.”  I will know what drives the industry that monetizes a web site.  I don’t know that I will, but it’s comforting now, because I liked it.

I think sometimes that you’re guided to the point that your will and God’s will are the same, if you’ll be quiet and listen, and maybe this is one of those times.  I owe Him the benefit of a doubt.  At least I can still have lunch with my old team. 🙂