Plodding and Pushing Forward

A decently productive day yesterday. Today, it's snowing in a big way, and I have nothing on my schedule except pushing ahead. Oh, I guess I do have to get some stuff mailed and there's that constant concern about xmas shopping.

Oh well, lets get some acheivements under my belt for the morning anyway. Then maybe out to shovel snow, and mail some stuff at lunch time.

Researchinator sets to it...

Battling the Expected Boogieman or Boogiemen

My productivity is waning a bit under the pressure of a) the onset of winter b) more awareness of competitive projects out there c) lack of a peer group.

But these are all boogiemen I expected, luckily, having been through them before. The work at home curse.

The good thing is that I'm financially stable for a good year anyway, so I should be able to the keep the pessimistic worries at bay. Of course, there is an inverse relationship between my ability to stretch my salaryless existence out perpetually and my ability to invest in my company to any great extent.

But I'll keep pushing on these things and see where I end up. I think if I can end up with a roughly workable application on the one side of the package, I'll get enough of a boost that I will be able to push through to the next milestone.

My biggest 'ugh' feeling is the pending Xmas period. I need to do a bunch of shopping and I really don't feel like I have the spare time. Then again, I don't have time to do a bunch of blogging, so lets put this to rest for now and get something done before lunch.

Researchinator squeezes the clock to get an extra few minutes out...

Hand Candy

Oh the world of distractions I've opened up for myself. I am currently syncing an iPod touch. Candy for the eyes, ears and with that sleek package, for the hand too.

It's an impressive package, and implementation is quite good. I'm a bit disappointed that the syncing process is poorly handled, in that there's just a flickering hashed-progress bar, rather than an actually functioning progress bar. I always held out apple as the company that understood progress bars, but this seems to be an exception. Sure there are a few gigs of data move, but really, couldn't the progress bar reflect some sort of, well, progress?

Apparently not.

Oh - spoke too soon, it seems to have figured it out after 10minutes and is now showing progress allong with how many songs are being loaded.

But alas, a new issue - oops, that one is being addressed too. I was going to say it's on "copying 15 out of 250:" while I know I have upwards of 900 songs. But nicely, it is copying before it knows how many songs there are to copy.

That's a good thing. This purchase is rather venture related, so I'll have to write it off, so I don't feel too back about doing this when I should be coding my system software. Plus it's got over 800 songs to copy still, so I think it will be a while.

Meanwhile, I think I'd best try to clean up my code before the end of the day. I hate to leave something half-coded.

Refocus Attempt, Still a Bit Blurry

The afternoon brightened up yesterday, so I suppose I should have just blogged later. And I did get out for a brief power walk, and that felt better. I talked to an alternative patent guy, one from my distant past, though it sounds like he will be too expensive. Plus he has a bit of a habit of telling me the obvious sometimes, which isn't stacking well in his favour.

This morning though, I'm migraining again that's twice in three days. Crap. At least I had several good weeks prior to that. So my productivity will perhaps suffer today. I did a fair bit of patent searching yesterday, and was unable to find anything close to what I'm doing. I came across one that briefly scared me, but upon closer reading got a better sense that it was doing something completely different, which was reassuring. There was a big sinking feeling there for a moment.

So far so good. Hmmm, wonder if I can maintain focus enough to do a bit of coding now, in spite of my head and my challenges.

Researchinator tries again...

Miserable Entrepreneurs Unite

This isn't feeling fun today. I'm tired of slaving away in oblivion. This feels like a rut day.

Snowing too, so walking it off is going to be a tougher proposition.

Better load up on the tea.

One of Those Mornings

A brief visit to University and an interesting presentation attended which was rather related to my venture. But alas, a migraine kicked in last night and lingers into the morning, robbing me somewhat of my morning initiative.

I rebooted my computer, but it didn't seem to help.

Yesterday I made some programming progress, but not enough. It's been a couple of weeks since I had worked on that element of the system, and getting back into it is always somewhat challenging. My migraine headaches often end with a period of positivity, so I'll have to be poised and ready to make use of that when it shows up - probably early afternoon or late morning today. Good to make the best of a miserable situation.

Meanwhile I still need to find a suitable networking opportunity around the city. I guess I'll have to start digging some more.

Researchinator says hello to Mr. Google....

Goal Setting Becomes Graphically Gratuitous

Launching into my week with a desire to move things forward substantially. That means these goals

1. A clean set of slides for presenting my premise.
2. Incorporate any bizplan feedback
3. Add another name to my collaborators
4. Move the application side ahead substantially, based on workpath
5. Work plan for people added - incl a list of prime questions for each to solve
6. Patent resolution - need to deal with the illness of my patent guy somehow.

Lets see where these stand at the end of the week. I figure with some clearly enumerated goals, I should be able to move things forward more measurably. Can I keep up on that process - listing goals for the week and scoring myself against it on Friday or Monday? We'll soon find out. Those of you joining us late can probably just skim ahead to future blog posts to see how it all turned out.

Cool - I'm writing messages to people of the future, where there are flying cars and robot maids and stuff.

Researchinator gets to work on the future stuff, like a full turkey dinner in a pill...