Remember The Milk - Salvation!!!

I have a bit of an organisational problem.
It's true.

Now, at work, I am Mr Organised. I rarely get stressed with the workload, just head down, one thing at a time and get on with it. The emergencies at work stress me out, as does anything to do with the network. But overall, I'm chilled and relaxed and just get on with it, secure in the knowledge that I am never, ever going to clear the to-do list.

But the recent holiday has shown me exactly what my problem at home is. I stay up late and try to get everything done and I flit from one thing to another with shocking lack of focus. I don't get enough sleep and I trap myself into a cycle of stress being too tired to get things done early in the night and then staying up late to try to do stuff once I'm more awake. On holiday I had no distractions and just a set number of reviews to do and I ploughed through them.

So I have started something new. I found the wonderful online t0-do application Remember The Milk a while back and started using it, but not properly. This changes tonight.
I now have everything online telling me what I have to do and when I have to do it. I am setting myself realistic goals and achievable targets for a workload.
I am filled with hope that this will work.
God help me.
It's a sad life.

Prevaricating

Have now spent far, far too much time doing anything but writing about the Stewart Lee comedy gig at the Pocklington Arts Centre. Arse.

After putting Molly to bed I have:
Sorted out some itunes stuff, including playing with the EQ settings.
Listened to a couple of Now Show podcasts.
Done a couple of blog posts for next week.
Designed a work grid for school over the following two weeks to try and get a handle on how much actual tech time I get per week.
Wrote this.
Started listening to the Kermode podcast only to find out that it's not Mayo and Kermode, but Colin Murray and Andrew Collins. Not that I mind so much having to listen to this pair, but it's a huge disappointment after looking forward to the Mayo/Kermode comedy double act.

Okay.
The time is now midnight 18.
Off to pour gin and tonic. Then back up to write up the Stewart Lee thing. It shall be finished and posted by 1am. Because I am definitely going to bed earlier this week. No. Really.

A busy day?

Today was, in theory, a work day.

Molly was very, very, very excited this morning and eventually I had no excuse and had to let her out of the cupboard under the stairs, give her breakfast and take her round to her friend's house where she's off to a farm this afternoon and having a sleepover.
(I always worry slightly about putting in obvious gags like the idea of keeping Molly in the cupboard because someone out there will look at it and be offended. Then again, these people are probably offended by the bloody sun rising in a morning anyway.)

So, getting back home for midday, I had planned to spend the entire afternoon doing reviews of loads of lovely small press comics I have at the moment.

That was the plan.
So far this afternoon I have:

Listened to 2 Now Show podcasts, Mitch Benn's podcast, last week's Kermode podcast.
Reorganised Itunes.
Downloaded some Yazoo, Weather Report, Siouxsie & The Banshees and Cabaret Voltaire.
Cleared out the 200 plus bloglines feeds I'd not gotten round to reading.
Deleted a lot of bloglines feeds (see above).
Realised the links on Fictions in the sidebar are very out of date - reorganised, deleted and added.
Tried to sort out a problem with the school website.
Looked around online at Ipod speakers - after something very good for no money.
(Anyone got any ideas? Currently using a JBL On Stage 8wRMS and after something a bit punchier).
This blog post.

It's now 4pm.
I really need to get around to these bloody reviews......
Just off to price up TVs.....

Update 5:25: Have re-re-arranged my entire bloglines feeds and found some Pocklington specific feeds.
Still no reviews. Arse.