You are here: Home / Archives for Time

Getting out of a Funk

March 30, 2010 By Jeff Leave a Comment

What I may look like if I am in a funk

Last week saw me gradually get stuck in a funk.  I think that it got started when I was working some crazy hours at the beginning of the week, only to find out that what I was working on was not as important as I was lead to believe.  The funk really hit its peak Sunday evening when I was really not that fun to be around.

Monday morning it was the same thing.  I was snappy and was able to get motivated at all when I sat down at my desk.  I tried to take an early lunch and that break worked a little, but the thing that worked the best was getting my ass kicked at the gym at the end of the day. I am working on a Nike+ coach program so I figured that something like hitting the gym would work out well.

As I sat down to write this I checked out what some of the how-to sites had to say about getting yourself out of a bad mood.  None of them really gave me any good info, to me it sounded too generic and I am not sure how it helps anyone.  When I am in a funk, a mood, or generally down, I find it best to talk to someone and get it out there.  Sometimes though I am not even really sure why the funk is there in the first place.  It is at those times that I can sometimes just take some me time.  Get away from everyone and spend some time by myself, doing nothing.

This time that didn’t work either.

That is why I hit the gym, sweating it out, pushing for that extra 1/4 mile was huge in me getting out of the funk.  Sometimes you may feel that it really doesn’t matter if you are in a bad mood, but it really affects everything and everyone around you.  On my way to work Monday morning I knew that I had to do something to snap out of it before I went home, and the gym was the perfect thing to work this time.

When I got home, made supper and went to bed I was all ready to make up for the lack of productivity that struck me on Monday.

Filed Under Me Rambling Tagged With , , , , ,

Troubles with websites

October 28, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Sometimes you Need some ZenI have a couple of old websites that I keep up and that take in some passive revenue from.  That said they can be a pain in the ass when you don’t keep up with the script maintenance.

I am facing the music now.  One of my favorite sites that I use as a general soap box that has both a front end blog and a back end forum, is on the fritz.  I got an email from my hosting service to tell me that there was a complaint that my site was hosting some malicious script.

It turns out that one of the scripts or addons that were installed on the site was out of date, and now there is a bunch of stuff simply not working.  However I think that I am going to take this time and restructure the entire site.  I am not taking entire advantage of some newer addons out there that may enable me to tie the different functionality of the site tighter together.

That is enough rambling for today, I have to get to bed and be up early tomorrow for meetings.

And the pic is just there to remind me to relax and just get the shit done, sometimes you just need to breathe.

Filed Under Blogging Tagged With , ,

Has it really been a Month

October 1, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

I can’t believe that it has been an entire month where I didn’t write a damn thing on this site. WOW

Something Cool along the HudsonIt has really been crazy around here.  The first week of September I was on Vacation in NYC.  If you have never visited New York, do it soon.  It is really a blast and you can do it on the cheap.  The shopping, Central Park, the shows and the people are amazing.  We have been there twice in the last 12 months.Even for Bluenoses[sic]

After I got back from there I worked a 60 hour week and then headed to the IEEE sections Congress in Quebec City.  This was a great trip, I was able to hang out with a lot of great people and meet some new friends.  IEEE is a great place for Engineers to network and meet people of the same vein.  Engineers are a odd bunch they usually have to have two lives, one geeky one at work and a “normal” one at home.  When at an IEEE event you can sit down with a beer and talk about sports and the LHC.As Seen from the Citadel

I even had time inbetween meetings to tour around the city. Old Quebec is the closest that I have ever been to an old European city.  It has made me decide that I Old Europe is my next adventure.

And then last week I was in Minneapolis to visit a generator manufacturer and get some classes in.  It was a decent trip that involved a very convoluted trip from Halifax to Minneapolis, but that is a story for another day.

As Seen from my hotelI didn’t have a lot of time to spend touring the town.  I was staying directly across from the University of Minnesota, and that place is huge.  I ended up working in a coffee shop across from the hotel, which was a lot of fun.  I talked to some of the students, not locals since I don’t think that I talked to one person who was actually from there.

And then I spent last weekend and this week trying to get everything settled, put out some fires and figure out where all my projects stand.  I finished that by the end of the day today, so now life should be reaching something closer to normal.

So what is next?

Well I am back to developing my business plan.  There are some courses that I have to finish and then I am going to get back to developing my latest project.  I still have the intention of reaching the modest level of $500 of passive proft by end of year.  Currently I am at $200 so it is entirely doable.

Filed Under Me Rambling Tagged With , ,
« Older Posts