Mental Meanderings

Running late but productive day

I started the day feeling very unmotivated but once I settled into working on Ispeitys I really knuckled down. Made some excellent progress with the site and I'm pleased with how it's moving along. Of course there is still so much more to do but I'm getting it done chunk by chunk. I think the message boards will be the next chunk I get into, either that or some more admin controls.

It helps that I've worked a similar site from the ground up before. It means I'm aware of what I want to start with. I mean last time I didn't set up any admin controls and the rest was all rudimentary. This time I can get a little involved with the smaller seemingly insignificant details because I know how invaluable they are.

Of course with so much to do it can sometimes be hard knowing where to begin and I have to keep testing and checking and occasionally adjusting changes as I go. Each step of the way produces more the check and test. But I'm getting there, slowly. It feels great to be accomplishing something.

It feels even better to know that while a couple of times I've been tempted to turn the server off and load up a game or head to bed with a book instead, I haven't done that. Of course, my house is totally trashed, but that's because both kids were home all day being a weekend and Kaylie was watching a movie before bed tonight. She's crashed on the couch without cleaning up before bed. I won't wake her up to clean up but I'll have to get her to at least get her room done before going to school tomorrow.

For some reason, no matter how often I try to drum it into them, neither kid gets the hang of putting away toys they are finished with before getting something new out. So there are books scattered about, ponies, dolls, blocks, etc. The video's are spread out over the lounge room again but that is all Josh. For some reason he just has to drag them all off the shelf. I've got wood on my shopping list, I'll be adding doors and child locks to my TV cupboard. (which is actually just a second computer desk)

Anyway, it's getting close to my own bedtime and I almost missed putting up my entry. I almost forgot all about it. My connection disconnected on me about 1PM today and I was just going to shutdown and leave it till morning when I remembered. Thankfully it just needed a restart to get up and running again. So here I am. And there I go. *waves*