Procrastination, or money sitting on the table
Every year about this time, I need to do some work for the GED scoring software I wrote for a friend about (mflphrmf) years ago. She pays me. It's nothing spectacular (I'm not going to retire on this or anything) but the extra bucks are nice.
Except I'm falling victim (again) to the terrible vice of procrastination. In theory, I like putting things like this in the past tense. Once they are done, I don't have to do them. While if I dither, they are always in front of me, reproaching me about not doing them.
Today, I finally did some stuff. Now, I'm going to go do some more. My goal is to have this stuff working and billed out by the end of the day tomorrow.
Except I'm falling victim (again) to the terrible vice of procrastination. In theory, I like putting things like this in the past tense. Once they are done, I don't have to do them. While if I dither, they are always in front of me, reproaching me about not doing them.
Today, I finally did some stuff. Now, I'm going to go do some more. My goal is to have this stuff working and billed out by the end of the day tomorrow.
8 Comments:
Hey, that's cool Ann, how did you write the program? (I knew that you did some web dev but I didn't realize that you had developed applications - sweet)
The program is ancient. DOS based (no kidding). FoxPro. I've never updated it, because it works, and my friend is probably going to be retiring before I could get an update done.
If I were to update it, I would do it in C# with a SQL Server back end, but I'm not exactly motivated to do programming for free. It would be a good learning application, but I'm busy blogging and playing Spider Solitaire.
"I would do it in C# with a SQL Server back end, "
Um, I haven't understood a thing until we got to Spider Solitaire.
I'm working on a Visual Fox scoring thing for a teacher now (no, not my daughter). better get my butt in gear and do the changes he asked for -
Are you running the 2005 Visual Studio limited version?
"Are you running the Visual Studio 2005 edition..."
Well, I have the Visual Studio 2005 limited edition installed, as well as SQL Server 2005 Express edition. But I haven't even touched it since I installed it, and it will probably be running out in the next two months or so.
That free year thing by M$ was genius, IMO.
Joe, my company's flagship product runs in VFP, but they have been moving over to .NET development and they're using C# for that. One of the developers says that VFP 10 is supposed to do .NET very well. The others guffawed at him.
Remember that old Far Side Cartoon "what dogs hear" and the man is talking to his dog Ginger and what she hears is "blah, blah, blah, Ginger, blah, blah, blah, Ginger, blah, blah, blah, blah."
That's been my experience with this conversation. I just recognize the names: blah, blah, blah, Ann. blah, blah, blah, Joe, blah, blah, blah solitaire..." (I also cling to the vision of Spider Solitaire as to a life raft in a deluge, Phoebs.)
Hey, I'm just glad to be here! :^)
Sometimes I tell God what I need to do, sort of line it out and ask His help. And He always does. I forget to ask quite often, though.
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