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November 2009 
What have you been procrastinating about?
Posted on May 27th, 2009
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Ted
Ted
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 27, 2009:
This proved an interesting question.
I wrote a big answer - then pressed post without copying it, and lost the lot.
Trying again.
Many things.
Giving full commitment to eliminating poverty and extending lifespans through www.solnx.org
Spending more time with my wife and daughter
Spending more time with my son
Finishing tidying up the trees I cut down over summer.
Finishing the extensions to the house.
Tidying up the garage.
Topping the trees on the section.
Felling the Marcocarpas on the eastern boundary of our section.
Practicing for the 36 hole golf tournament I'm playing Sunday
Coding the integration of a report generator into my main software package.
Coding a website to record individual assessments of the state of our fisheries, plus actual recreational catch.
Updating the cashbook system to full windows printing capability.
Completing the productivity partner software.
Painting the roof.
Getting the old 4WD ready for sale.
Getting the campervan ready for sale.
Going fishing,
Getting my pilots licence current.
Finishing reading the 20 or so books I'm part way through.
Calling people to ask for their support to run as President of the NZ Recreational Fishing Council.
Complete the modelling work I have been working on for the Gisborne Crayfish fishery.
Calling both the Minister of Fisheries, and the CEO of the Ministry of Fisheries and talking to them personally about what I am seeing the Gisborne data.
Doing yoga every day.
Going for a decent bike ride at least 4 days a week.
Walking the dogs.
Completing the book I am writing.
.............. and on it goes
I wrote a big answer - then pressed post without copying it, and lost the lot.
Trying again.
Many things.
Giving full commitment to eliminating poverty and extending lifespans through www.solnx.org
Spending more time with my wife and daughter
Spending more time with my son
Finishing tidying up the trees I cut down over summer.
Finishing the extensions to the house.
Tidying up the garage.
Topping the trees on the section.
Felling the Marcocarpas on the eastern boundary of our section.
Practicing for the 36 hole golf tournament I'm playing Sunday
Coding the integration of a report generator into my main software package.
Coding a website to record individual assessments of the state of our fisheries, plus actual recreational catch.
Updating the cashbook system to full windows printing capability.
Completing the productivity partner software.
Painting the roof.
Getting the old 4WD ready for sale.
Getting the campervan ready for sale.
Going fishing,
Getting my pilots licence current.
Finishing reading the 20 or so books I'm part way through.
Calling people to ask for their support to run as President of the NZ Recreational Fishing Council.
Complete the modelling work I have been working on for the Gisborne Crayfish fishery.
Calling both the Minister of Fisheries, and the CEO of the Ministry of Fisheries and talking to them personally about what I am seeing the Gisborne data.
Doing yoga every day.
Going for a decent bike ride at least 4 days a week.
Walking the dogs.
Completing the book I am writing.
.............. and on it goes
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Yowza! If we don't die until we finish our to-do list, then you've got some mighty big life insurance here!
- Laurie
P.S. Why would you paint your roof?
Hi Laurie,
Paint it a nice olive green so that light reflecting from it blends in with that coming from the trees around it, rather than coming as a harsh metalic flash from unpainted corrugated iron. Given that our house sits atop a peninsula in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, it seems appropriate to make it as low impact as possible, to leave others with the feeling that the area is as natural as possible.
Ted -
That sounds wonderful! Where I currently live we have composite shingles. Where I come from we had slate. Neither of those types of roofs get painted.
Corrugated iron - now that's interesting. What does it sound like to be inside when it rains on that type of roof?
Can be a little loud in really heavy rain - but that doesn't happen too often. And we have good ceiling insulation, so it is not as bad as many a tramping hut I have stayed in.