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Nick Kirsch

inspections are a sham

well, i paid way too much money for some guy who didn’t seem any more qualified than me to ‘inspect’ my condo. i certainly expected him to be much more knowledgable/talented. perhaps my condo is just to small to have many things of interest, but if i did that again i think i’d keep the money for myself and spend 3 or 4 hours (instead of the 30 minutes he spent) looking the place over.

some progress

after 5 months of nothing, i finally managed to start my article. i wrote about four paragraphs. i would estimate that i’m about 1/5th of the way done with the rough draft of content. i’m going to have to average over 3 paragraphs a night (plus time to revise). if i actually learn not to procrastinate, this might become a regular thing…

learning

i really learned something about the way i do development. i rush. my last project was over budget and has a lot of poor qualities. it is also a resource hog; in short, it sucks. my current project is going to shape up nicely but still took way too long to do because i started developing too quickly, without taking enough time to think about it. it is interesting because i don’t think i ever worked while watching myself work. if this trend continues, i should be able to eliminate many inefficiencies and streamline my process. i hope for the day when i can consciously evaluate and improve my study habits – look out!

exhausted

me and Rob finished the first half of our final project tonight even though the lab took about an hour longer then we would have liked. this is a busy week. time for bed.

now i'm really distracted

as if operating on four hours sleep weren’t enough, my offer for the highland condo was accepted. it looks like the path towards my first home is quite clear. i’ll be notifying my landlord of my intention to vacate.

feeling the crunch

i’m up too early. my body started to feel itchy and my mind became too active for me to go back to sleep. i’m not sure where i’ve picked up this horrible trait, but i seem to have procrastinated on quite a few thing and now i have to suffer the consequences. i hope i learn from this…