Bob was trying to convince me the other day that I should probably get myself a copy of Getting Things Done, though at the time I had only just found out about my disease of doom, so Bob’s attempts to try and turn my sad time into productive time were met with much hostility from ones self. As you can imagine, it’s like telling someone you should go and learn some server side scripting because after hearing you’re about to lose an arm.

Anyway, now I’ve finally accepted there is fuck all I can do about the situation, and hence done what I could in resolving things that could be resolved - I have decided since I am housebound (to the point I can’t actually even step outside), and I won’t be distracted by people on msger or other social networking devices since everyone has fecked off this weekend - I am going to engage on the oh so eloquently nicknamed ‘Pox project’ - whereby I’m going to try and do one of the zillion things that I can’t seem to get round to doing in the duration I have the pox.

Here is a list of things I have to achieve during the “Pox project” (or PP for short, since it feels like some weird medical experiment calling it that.)

• The beginning and completion of one short reasonable sized project
• Stirred up motivation to work on other projects
• To forget about the alternative immense fun I could be having punching people in a field
• To get back in touch with my geeky side
• To warm up old skills again
• To generally GTD!

Sooo projects I could entail this weekend are..

• Photography portfolio
• Blog theme

Now righteously I should go with the portfolio, though I won’t have any standby web dev help for that, so I’ll end up tearing my hair out as I scream “WHY DON’T YOU LOOK THE SAME?!?!?” as I preview it in FF and IE and Opera and then the Mac versions and the linux versions and every other random browser under the sun.  But some would argue that I would be going against the whole ‘no stress, no fear’ thing - and sometimes I should just dive in head first and work out how to swim later.

Oh and I’ve decided to also pass away the time by watching lots and lots and lots of films. Torrents are on the go.

Think happy thoughts.

Tags: gtd, projects

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