It is my firm belief that most good mornings have coffee in them somewhere. Donuts are optional, but coffee is an essential ingredient. However, my appreciation for coffee is not because I’m one of those that needs to get ‘charged up’ or anything in the morning. In fact, caffeine doesn’t affect me that much anymore and I’m usually fired up and energetic right after taking a shower. Instead, I am quite sure I appreciate coffee for the way it tastes. Last night I indulged in my appreciation for coffee at 9pm. I drank half a pot and then went to sleep a little while later.
If anything, this proves that I am, in fact, related to my grandparents on my Mom’s side. They were fellow appreciators of coffee and, like them, I am known to enjoy a beer every now and then because it tastes good.
Last night I made the official offer on aforementioned home. Some mild freaking out ensued. However, this morning when I walked outside I remembered exactly why I wanted to stay in this neighborhood. The sun was out, the grass was freshly cut, and the sun was shining through the trees causing those little dancing shadows on the street. I walked to my car and suddenly a thought hit me:
It is probably a bad day to be a vampire.
This is probably totally true although I’m not actually a vampire so I can’t be 100% sure. Anyway. I got in my car and scooted off to work, with my faith in this house-buying decision renewed.
I don’t know where my sudden business strategist side is coming from. Last night while talking to Yuri about the future of the neighborhood, I kept wondering to myself what kind of business I could open in this neighborhood that would be popular with the new breed of residents. Some kind of antique store would probably do well, but I don’t know jack about antiques. A coffee place of some sort would be a goldmine as well. But, hell, how do I as a non-antique person and non-barista go about opening those kinds of businesses? It’s a dilemma of epic proportions. Maybe I need to meet some entrepreneurs that are willing to go in on these kinds of ideas in the future.
I’ve decided to try and come up with a web-based task management system. The gist of it is that you can register yourself as person that can give or receive tasks (or both). Each person has a task list ordered by both internal (the person whose task list it is) and external (the priority other people give it) priorities. Each task can be organized into discussions and the current status is listed along with (optionally) a completion percentage or estimated date of completion.
What this accomplishes is that instead of using Outlook calendars (which Linux developers don’t have) or huge email chains to discuss projects, teams can delegate tasks and receive feedback directly from developers. They could easily see the status of various projects and any questions. This (hopefully) prevents micromanagement and cuts down on silly pointless meanings. I came up with this idea as a result of the fact that I am often given conflicting priorities on projects. I will also be told to start on something, but then won’t be told what it is since nobody is talking to one another to coordinate these things.
As an example, right now my top priority from the development team is to work on the Dedicated Server Order Form. However, I don’t have any of those files and thus cannot start. I’ve mentioned it twice, but things are stalled because nobody knows who is talking to who about this. We have projects that just disappear like this because they are poorly managed and everyone assumed they’ve passed the buck to someone else when, in fact, the other person did not receive the buck at all.
I’ve only come up with 2 names so far:
jefftask.com
and
tellmewhat2do.com
So, if you have any other ideas, I’m all ears. Well, not literally. I mean, I’m listening but I’m not really made of all ears. Uhh…I mean…forget I said that. If you have ideas, I am receptive to them.
