elainegrey

Overslept. Curses! Dreamed the Meeting was using JIRA and of other Quaker data elements. Easily explained, as Christine and i made a THIRD trip to the Meetinghouse last night to extract membership data from Filemaker Pro. She is creating a map of where people live so that Oversight can recommend neighbors (for varying values of neighborhood) get together and support each other. I spent much of the evening listening to Christine's continued observations of data jumble.

Teensy bug report at LJ this morning: http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1082819

Morning curiosity was tracking down the company that used this logo. I'd seen a boxy black delivery van cruising down Central Expressway Sunday afternoon. The distinctive look of font and phoenix, the martial black and red, got me curious. I experience a cognitive dissonance as i look at the logo and remember the van. There's an elegant power to the lines, yet a resonance with Third Reich iconography. Oh look, their graphic designer loves their van.

Yesterday morning, right before i drove to work (and right after i arrived), i wrote a list of things to do and planned to set an alarm to remind me to look at the list. I looked when i arrived, but otherwise did not until, blistered, i was leaving the building. I did a few things on the list that were evening related, but sheesh, i am back to the challenge of juggling lots of little tasks with the sense i don't have time to breathe. I take this as yet another sign my brain is thawing out from the frozen depressed dullness, and i trust i will acclimate to this level of "yikes" awareness.

Monday evening i was feeling the weight of so many management things that had slipped through my fingers, yesterday some anxiety about the next two three week programming iterations and a delivery date at the end of May. Today is more planning. Somehow i must find a little balance, keep from overwhelming my staff (i may have committed that sin yesterday), and attend to things like extremely overdue Amex payments and peoplesoft entries. April 15th. April 15th. Hmm, something about that date, too, seems familiar....

Hmm, reading the two entries tagged "overwhelm-cruft" show me i did, once upon a time, juggle with some grace.