Works in progress

I've decided that it's okay to plan to get things done but not get them done right away. One good example is the re-working of this blog. It's currently being re-designed and will be re-launched when it's ready. I haven't been blogging because I've been waiting for the re-design to be finished; but since it's taking so long, I've decided that writing and working can happen at the same time, and so... here I am writing again.

I've started to maintain a list of "Projects on the Go." Up until recently, I've had this habit of jumping head first into a project, going "deep in development" on it for a few days and then when I back off it for a couple days, I lose interest in it entirely and it gets pushed to the back burner (almost certainly never to be worked on again).

My mentality in regards to these "dead in the water" projects need to change. I need to get it in my head that just because my initial motivation and drive for these things may be gone for a few days, that doesn't necessarily mean that I have to forget about these projects all together. I can put work into them when I have time and when it feels right; especially when there are no hard deadlines set.

So while some projects may go up or down in terms of priority, I'll try not to feel like I'm ignoring or forgetting one when something else is being worked on.

Projects on the Go:

-[personal] Blog Re-Design
-[personal] Media Library Aggregate/Statistics generator
-[personal/work] Active Task List (call it a to-do list)
-[personal/work] Survey System Documentation (for the primary system we use at my work; I'm trying to put together a technical manual of sorts)
- [work] Survey Report Generator/Controller (in order to automate a custom reporting process I do for clients at work)
- [personal/work] Learn Macromedia Flash (...just cause I haven't really learned any new technologies in a while)