Well, last week was an absolute blast. I had fun with my grandson and my wife as we traveled around going from attraction to attraction. It's kind of neat being able to be with your grandson and to see his excitement when things happen around him. This will probably be the last chance that me and my wife will have be able to get with him and do anything involving a lot of time. The main reason for this is that he is grown and is just about out of high school.

Boy am I tired. I went to an amusement park with my grandson and my wife today. Had a good time but I did walk a lot. Right now I am just trying to figure out how to keep my feet from touching the floor under any circumstances. The nuttyness that is spring break fell upon us all today. I think I am going to welcome sleep.

I'm a bit tired after a long day of driving today. I ended up going all over the place - it's a good thing that I had a GPS to help me. I think that I had way too many gadgets with me. Funny how you can become addicted so easy to electronics. When I switched over the driving to my wife, she ended up wanting to hear some of my mp3s so I didn't get the chance to read from my iPhone. Oh well better luck next time. Maybe tomorrow won't be so busy.

There are several things that I need to change in terms of being able to use an iPhone. In the first place, I am only just starting to become familiar with some of the programs and applications on this phone. I have just recently discovered the Daily Tracker app on the iPhone which I am using to do journaling and keeping track of information that I normally would use in the daytime. It seems that every time I come up with a good process that works, something else comes out on the market and changes my mind. The reason that I checked Pocket Informant, was that I have seen an awful lot of articles written on blogs concerning it. This would lead me to believe, that I would be successful as well as they would in using it. So in terms of using apps on the iPhone, I am limiting my choices to pocket informant, and the app daily tracker. The nice thing about pocket informant, is that it interfaces very well with Google calendar and toodledo, the to do list website. I have started becoming very adept at going to this to do list website and updating information in a getting things done manner.

I have played around with Getting Things Done in the past. I have also written a number of processes that I have used over the years which contain some of the elements of GTD. In whatever I do with this system it needs to be:

(1) mindless - I need to have a habit developed in which I do things as a matter of course without having to think about what I am doing. An example of this is how I do a notebook. I have been putting notes in a notebook all of my engineering life and I worked out a way of indexing my notebook so that I could find things. The indexing is a mindless activity which I quickly made into a habit and when I sit down to a meeting, or take notes on my own as I am thinking about something, I automatically do things which allow me to find the information later. I need that kind of mindless activity in GTD in order to really use it to its potential.

I need to work on how I am going to do getting to done. My thoughts are that I need to write down procedures for implementing my GTD. I guess in this case I should probably start with figuring out how to go about doing daily activities; what I do in the morning, what I do at noon, and what I do when I leave to go home. In the morning I need to know what things have changed from the day before in terms of planned activities. In the evening before I leave to go home, I need to figure out what things need to be accomplished the following day, and also in the evening. During the day, priorities change, and I need to make sure that I keep abreast of all of activities that need to be accomplished both now and in the future. This of course is added to the fact that I'm an engineer, and I need to maintain some semblance of control over the amount of information that comes across my desk. This would include things like keeping up a notebook, I'll putting extraneous papers and proper folders, and also keeping detail within binders which are in easy reach. But all in all, I think I will start with modifying existing procedures that I laid out for myself some time ago.

Today is another day and things are looking good. I just had a talk with my boss about problems associated with one of the contracts I'm supposed be working on. It turns out that the government has been holding back on money. And they don't know when that they will be able to put out another contract. Noting this, I'm just waiting for the next shoe to drop. Meanwhile, I am out looking for other work. I don't care what anyone says, I'm just going to wait on the Lord for this.