to.done yesterday

[mdlbear]

 0205
  ~ buy sterile Q-tips [not available; getting them from Ellen]
  & 8ish finished loading and ran dishwasher.
  & 9ish change bash prompt from <..> to (..) for easy quoting in HTML
  & read work email, internal blogs; reviewed to.do list
  & 12:00 add "&" tag for items added after completion
  * 12:05 Colleen took on the 611 call to unify phone bills
  & 12:20 called Callie.  No answer; left wave.
  & 12:20-13:00 walkies
  * 13:00 fix email somehow - mail rahul from s/green/rii/
  & 14:38 (work) added abstract to $TR[1]
  & 4ish  (work) filled in home appointments in to.do list
  & 4:20p (work) added abstract to $TR[2]
  & 4:30p (work) finished first pass through $DOC
  & 4:45p verified that mail to steve@t.org is getting through to my
    account on rahul.net.  Yay!!
  & 5:00p added intro to emotional_affair
  = 5:02p why is this looking a lot like a twitter log?  NO!!!
  * 5:30ish buy gin
  * 7:12 river: post "emotional affair"
  * 22:13 post something about Dad

There are probably things I missed. I didn't count things like lunch, LJ, and research on the web. Probably should just to see where the time goes, but this exercise is more about getting a feeling of accomplishment around little tasks. "~" items are listed under the day when I decided to abandon them.

10:05 insert a couple of unsaved items from another edit window.

See Trying Not to Fail for why I'm doing this.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Well, that's actually a fair amount of stuff done. Go you!

[mdlbear]

The idea is to put in lots of little, easy thing, thus tricking myself into believing that I can get things done.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

You're not tricking yourself - you really are getting things done. As everyone's been telling you, starting with the little, easy things is exactly the right way to go about it. You wouldn't expect to pick up a baseball bat for the first time in your life, and a week later star in the World Series...