AllGuinness

I am a project planner, but not all that much of a finisher. Take the hardwood floor I installed. I am about two or three hours from being as done as I can be, and yet I fail to push through to the end. Some people use to-do lists to help them manage tasks, but my problem is that I get totally involved on another project that I consider to be of equal importance (though it frequently is a waste of time in reality), Then the old project gets filed into the semi-finished pile, and possibly forgotten about. I need a master list of projects that I can later break down into tasks. Lets look at the current state of projects bouncing around in my mind.

This List

Certainly the latest of the group. Thankfully, it is also a short project that may be completed by the time I finish writing this post.

MyMovies Database

This has long been something I wanted to make, and the recent purchase of the disk changer has re-ignited the need. I want to make a database that holds all of the movie information in one table, the actor information in another, and a third table for category/tag information. Simple relational jazz, but I have yet to do it. Ideally I want to search for all movies with Humphry Bogart, or that are in the Christmas category. You know, like that.

Wieland Archive

For more details on this I refer you to another post that I wrote about having too many plans. I am a broken record. Wieland Archive

Finish the Hardwood Floor

As mentioned before, this wouldn’t take me too long, but I have to get to it.

Build a Crib

It would seem a bit late for this, but the truth is that I still have time. The baby sleeps in our room in a Pack-n-Play device, and probably won’t move out for a month or so. I have almost all of the wood I need to complete this project, and I even bought a mortiser for the project.

Build Cabinetry in the Basement

My father has wanted some extra bookshelves in the basement for some time, and I think I know how I want to build them, but I haven’t started a thing on them yet. This is a pretty big project, actually, as it converts two rooms into an archive room.

The AllG Game

This project has certainly floundered, though I periodically add something new to the site that houses it. The MyMovies database will probably live over there too. There are subset projects in there too, like the calendar, forum and Master Rater sections. I may even make a to-do list section. There is still much to do to get the game actually working, and even more to do to make it entertaining. Much animation. This is a long term project, clearly. AllG Game | Game Site

The Retlaw Project

This project is my Disney site. The problem is that a site of this type takes a few thousand pages to be any good at all, so it will take me a while. The bones are in place now, but content will take forever. Retlaw

The Retlaw Map Project

This is really a subset of the above project, but its development goes hand in hand with the larger site, so I include it separately. This uses the new MyMaps area in Google to map out the Walt Disney World property. A waste of time you say? Well, probably, but so what? I have already created the best Disney map anywhere, and it will only get better as I add more information to each map marker. Each map will then be put into Google Earth where I will sort them and re-export them as smaller KML files that can be read by google maps, giving me specific maps of different sections to display. Retlaw Map | Map 2

I should be done soon.

I Have toys. Lots of them. I am currently writing on my new computer. About time too, and this one is pretty good, though by no means the best money can buy or anything. I also got a new video camera. This is the first digital one I have owned. It has a hard drive so it has no media to fill and remove, just transfer off the hard drive in the camera to the computer for editing or whatever. We also got a new dishwasher. This is less a toy, but it is making a difference in my life already. Before we got it I had to basically wash all of the dishes completely before washing them in the dishwasher. What a change that is from now. The latest, and greatest of my recent purchases has been my new DVD player from Sony. I know that you are thinking that is can’t be all that big a deal to have a new DVD Player, but mine is special in that it holds 400 disks. I loaded them all up yesterday evening, and made a list of where they went when they went in. This is the first time I have really ever written down all of the titles I have. I think I topped out at about 367, so I only have a little more room in this one before I have to add another. It works great so fat too, with the HDMI cable and all. So now here it is, even though you don’t want it, complete with slot location in the DVD jukebox dingus.