Struggling to get down to productivity

But alas, tomorrow is another day and big plans and big ideas to come!

Still trying to load SQL Server - now on BIDS

Can't find devenv.exe.  And so I continue to wander.

Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Services

This helped tremendously: http://tinyurl.com/5dz8sm

Come On Spring!

Image via Wikipedia

Finally finished the yard work of fall this weekend. Spent 4 hours over the weekend mulching the last of the leaves, using Dan Smith's mulcher/chipper/vaccuum thing - what a wonderful implement.

Funny thing is - I could use some more leaves! We raked what we could from the front and drive side of the yard to the street ahead of the city's fall leaf pickup; what was left under the bushes out front and all the leaves from the back yard got sucked and mulched over the last two weekends (12 hours total). And the resulting mulch covered the front bed, both side areas, and the most of the rear bed. I could use some more mulch under the magnolia, but alas - (and thankfully) no more leaves.

Can't wait to see how the yard looks come spring!

Finished

So, that's a full day of blog learning, password vault analysis, selection, paying, and populating......

Off to dinner!

Exploring Blogs

working through the various ways to update/publish blogs

Research blogging - try these

Wordpress

Blog post (somewhere) re: Firefox, ultimate blogging tool.

Stories Will Never Die -

Stories are central to how we think about the world: from the individual to the wide sweep of history.

Discovering, belatedly, David Foster Wallace

http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

and from The New Yorker.

Fascinated with Writing Spaces

http://mtblog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/kojanote.jpg

http://www.will-self.com/writing-room/index.php

The Noble Truths of Suffering - The New Yorker

Fascinating day of following leads to a wonderful story:

Granta - list of books of the year - http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Books-of-the-Year

Comment by Joshua Ferris about wonderful story in the 9.22.08 issue of The New Yorker by Aleksander Hemon.

It is a great story - The Noble Truths of Suffering - read it and enjoy!

Having great fun with Shelfari

Check out the book shelves and add some to your blog at Shelfari!

Cold Water After An Exhilarating Night

November 5, 8:45am

First splash - walking into Kroger looking for New York Times - I hear on the Muzak - "Walking in a winter wonderland..."

November 5, 8:55am
Driving towards book store, a Toyota SUV passes me with a brand new, shiney white bumper sticker with blue lettering: "Impeach Obama"

So much for the honeymoon....

As I was walking home from the office today, I wandered past the new Art Museum and came across this angle that appealed to me.

Distracted, distracted

Trying to focus on work and struggling to keep it on target. Lots to do and little motivation. Outside the window-white dogwood, electric neon red azalea, redbud, magnolia, and green, green grass.

Just wanting to settle in and get something done, but out to lunch....spring fever?