today was monday. It was like most days, with moderate traffic driving to work as a way to fully wake myself up. I spent the day making progress on tangible items. Too much of my time lately has been setting the scene or doing the stuff leading up to the items that are quantifiable. Today, I did all the things that could easily be scratched off of a todo list. If I put it off even for 20 minutes last week, I made sure to just do it today. Stupid things, little things, close the gap things, and other things around the office that aren't any big deal.

I took a short break for lunch where I finished the puzzle of the day from my desk calendar, and then read an article on the Internet about The Walt Disney company and its beginnings.
br> Back to work for round two. I setup a router so I can experiment in the lab. If I don't try it out there first, I could easily have 300 of our locations around the country wondering why they suddenly can't get to the "home page." I had two brief meetings after that, one to talk about a project that had no lab and will be pushed out to the masses in 9 days, and another to discuss why 9 employees decided to open their own office 10 miles north of the Corporate building. If they didn't want to print, we might never have known. The last thing I did today was clean a third of a large room so tomorrow I can inventory some equipment. This equipment is going to be used in the best possible way. In about three weeks, we're going to double our Internet connection. In 4 more months, we'll be doubling it again. By December, it will be close to 8x what it is now. Gotta love the country's mentality about excess and short-sighted thinking.

I concluded the day by driving home in heavy traffic.

There is one more thing...


Inspiration just shows up one day and tells you what you want to know. It doesn't leave a trail, and you can't find it whenever you're looking for it. And for some, when inspiration finally does strike, it isn't in the form they were hoping for, and, alas, it is ignored.