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Yesterday was one long day involving a laundry list of various appointments that resonated, scanned, and tomographed (is there such a word?) me, among other small indignities. One bright spot about the day was the absence of any significant "dead" time, during which I would have been required to sit around and do nothing
Just as the day wound to a close and I got back into my car, the general area between the Texas Medical Center and home became the playground of a storm system that slammed the ground (and the electrical system) with numerous lightning bolts and quantities of water that, at times, threatened to flood the road on which I was driving. What had been a rather slow one-hour drive to the Center in the morning turned into a slower one-and-a-half-hour drive back home.
Upon gaining the house, it was too early to head off to bed, so I sat and read another chunk of the Patricia Cornwell novel I had started reading at the Center (just because there was no "significant" dead time doesn't mean there wasn't any dead time, y'dig?). I might go finish it off tonight, before lights out.
Speaking of today, fun and games at TMC didn't start until the afternoon, and this time, Galina went with me. Everything went well, although by the time we got into the car to go home, Google Maps showed the major arteries leading home to be solid red. I found an alternate route that at least made us feel we were making good time.
* * * I formally started BulletJournaling today, albeit with a few modifications to the Mark 1 version. Perhaps the most significant of these changes is repurposed the '>' symbol from 'migrate' (move the item the symbol describes to a page later in the book, i.e., reschedule it) to 'deadline', and using the rather mundane 'M' for 'migrate' instead.
As it turns out, the BulletJournal method uses '<' for 'scheduled', but has no symbol for 'deadline' (two concepts that org-mode specifically distinguishes, with the former meaning the date on which one plans to start workingon a task; the latter, the date the task is supposed to be finished). This is quite useful when planning a task that will take several days of effort to complete, and on another plane—from a design perspective—the serendipitous (mnemonic) way that '<' and '>' can easily be imagined (remembered) as signifying the beginning and end of a project was sort of appealing, too.
Cheers...
Just as the day wound to a close and I got back into my car, the general area between the Texas Medical Center and home became the playground of a storm system that slammed the ground (and the electrical system) with numerous lightning bolts and quantities of water that, at times, threatened to flood the road on which I was driving. What had been a rather slow one-hour drive to the Center in the morning turned into a slower one-and-a-half-hour drive back home.
Upon gaining the house, it was too early to head off to bed, so I sat and read another chunk of the Patricia Cornwell novel I had started reading at the Center (just because there was no "significant" dead time doesn't mean there wasn't any dead time, y'dig?). I might go finish it off tonight, before lights out.
Speaking of today, fun and games at TMC didn't start until the afternoon, and this time, Galina went with me. Everything went well, although by the time we got into the car to go home, Google Maps showed the major arteries leading home to be solid red. I found an alternate route that at least made us feel we were making good time.
As it turns out, the BulletJournal method uses '<' for 'scheduled', but has no symbol for 'deadline' (two concepts that org-mode specifically distinguishes, with the former meaning the date on which one plans to start workingon a task; the latter, the date the task is supposed to be finished). This is quite useful when planning a task that will take several days of effort to complete, and on another plane—from a design perspective—the serendipitous (mnemonic) way that '<' and '>' can easily be imagined (remembered) as signifying the beginning and end of a project was sort of appealing, too.
Cheers...
