Re: So little time, so much to do!

On 8/29/07 4:43 PM, in article 5jm442F9eo8U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Karen C in
California" <KMC528@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Allura wrote:

Also, I find for me that computer time is a killer. I started using a
15 minute timer when reading my email, etc, bc I lose too much time to
it otherwise. Heck, I'm mildly obsessive about using the timer for
EVERYTHING; I got bit by the Flylady (www.Flylady.net) bug at one
point. Some of it's silly, but some of it's really pretty useful.



Flylady is especially useful for people like one of my college chums who
WOULD NOT start a project unless she could finish it in one sitting.
She missed a deadline because she never had 8 hours straight to do the
project.

Then she popped in on me to kill some time chatting just before Lunch
opened, and I was doing something she knew I didn't have time to finish
before I was due in class. She got quite an education in the concept
that you don't need to do everything in one sitting; you can do 5
minutes here and 10 minutes there.

Astrologically, her sign's strong point is that stick-to-it-iveness to
work straight through till she finishes a project. My sign's (supposed)
weakness is the flightiness to only maintain interest for short periods.
But, with college class schedules being what they were (an hour in
class, an hour out, an hour in class, an hour out), I actually got more
accomplished with my little bit here and little bit there approach,
while she was waiting for evening so she would have a 3-hour block.

I have no doubt that she's one of those people who will not do housework
until she has time to clean the whole house properly at once, as opposed
to those of us who can load the dishwasher now and leave scrubbing the
sink and stovetop till later, without any guilt that I didn't do it all
in one fell swoop.

Which reminds me, I put off scrubbing the sink last night, so I suppose
I should go do that now.


For me it depends on the project. Some things I need to clear a few hours to
do, others work in the dribs and drabs of time.

Latin could be done while waiting for Art History or Philosophy to start.
Not a problem set or writing lab reports.

Stitching - simple things I can pick up anytime, some things need peace and
quiet.

C

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Full Falcon 1.3 launch video up
    ... :> I'm just a lowly member of the peanut gallery, but everytime I see ... :> someone talking about waiting just a little longer I think about ... :You could solve this with some sort of fancy sensor. ... :complex and prone to failure when compared to a simple timer. ...
    (sci.space.policy)
  • Re: Best option for idle wait
    ... AFAIK there is only one mechanism in windows, ... with a higher resolution than several milliseconds ... and that's the multimedia timer ). ... > cycles and I can't do much else while I am waiting. ...
    (microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel)
  • Re: OpenGL driver consumes 100% CPU
    ... One is that the timer may fire while ... you're waiting for the vertical refresh. ...
    (comp.programming.threads)
  • Re: Yet another timers-and-threads question
    ... When the timer expires the virtual function timeout() is called (I ... the idea being to add timeouts to objects of any class running in any ... If your threads are compute-intensive and never waiting -- I believe you can ...
    (microsoft.public.vc.mfc)
  • Re: Simple 555 PWM - disappointing performance
    ... >Now this circuit can take advantage of the sizable current sink ... >capability of the 555 timer. ...
    (sci.electronics.design)