Magic pen changed my life!

[jack]

I've recently made a bit of an effort to become organised, to augment my (A) being getting up at 9.00ish[1], (B) wasting less or indeed no time at work (C) slowly achieving my todo list[2] (D) thinking about where my life should go[3] (E) spodding hopefully more interestingly and (F) the aforementioned personality transplant :)

Fear my being a man now, my son! :)

I've redone my email folders a bit, so they're more hierarchical, and separated out the pooh and tolkien folders into 'chat' and 'committee' and 'announcements'. nakedtoes and sonicdrift can be squeeful and flattered that they've joined the elect club of people who have a folder of their own[4] :) Tim and Justin *would* but since *most* of the emails from one are also to the other, they are for the moment still co-existing in "timjustin" though for some equality I reversed the order.

I do, in fact, want email with categories, so something can be in both 'tim' AND 'justin'. It'd also be useful for emails from Foo AND poohsoc, or from Foo AND about house-finding, or whatever. But I like having IMAP. Can anyone advise me what system I should be using? Ideally I'd like email available from a server by both imap and webmail, and sortable into categories. I won't go much further, since I think that's still currently unacheivable. Gmail? Any other service? Download to outlook? Write an imap wrapper for gmail?

I've bought a shiny USB pen drive thingy[5] and moved all my personal files from home and work onto it. It's great having my todo list there where-ever I go, which has been a sticking point in my having one before. I've also reorganises a bit so I can find stuff; now my main personal folders are: fic_mine; fic_other's; gakked (quotes, downloaded pics, etc.); life (finance, etc.); poetry (not large, but enough to clutter up spod); pooh (mainly minutes); roleplaying; tech (stored settings, encrypted passwords, etc); spod (partially finished posts, articles, emails, poetry (but not any more), thoughts, plans, todos, etc).

[1] Today I woke up at 8.50 and got up without prompting by alarm, but I was *that* sanguine about going to work :) Yesterday I did some geek shopping first (see para 3) and woke up at 8.00, like I do at Xmas :)
[2] Bike very soon, promise. And shortly car, maybe.
[3] I think for satisfaction I need to acheived something, but aren't sure if this should be 'well paid job' or 'family' or something more innovative.
[4] Later I'm going to spod an amusing list of pseudo-definitions of friends, of which this is one :)
[5] There was one that was a wireless connector AND a pen drive. Isn't that so cool? If not useful to me :)

Comments

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

Squee!

And huh. You've had your own folder in my system since undergrad! (though now you have two, in a confusing twist of events)

I think you should achieve goldfish. Or maybe some of those tropical ones?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

As I patiently explained to T and J, it's not an insult, it just means I didn't (until recently) have many emails that were just from you, rather than fitting into a larger group like 'old trinity friends', since then being an singular folder actually makes it harder to find things.

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all offended. I tend to be a bit anal about filing stuff. (Well, some stuff. Not bank statements so much, unfortunately. Must put that on to-do list)

BTW, I got dressed! Yay!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm *a bit* anal. Just not anal enough :) I started using email regularly slowly, so my folders of the time grew rather than were designed :)

And yes, it's funny how bank statements always come last on the to-organise list, I'm just the same :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Acheiving goldfish sounds appropriately fun and surreal! :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

Plus, its humanitarian. Or, friendly to animals at least.

It does look v gross if you don't change their water suitably often though

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, not really, I'd be supporting the goldfish breeding market.

Actually, it *would* be nice, but I wasn't sure why you brought it up just then :) I might even like a more active pet, but (a) I'm not allowed and (b) the responsibility is too much for me, I'd worry I wouldn't live up to it -- I know I'd be as good as most people, but I'd be too scared of what's happen if I got it wrong. Which doesn't bode well for my ever being a parent :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

Pedant!

I was trying to think of something zany, as opposed to mortgage / family. Goldfish seemed appropriate.

If you're ever in the situation where you can have a pet, cats are quite independent. Much more so than dogs. I know what you mean about the parent thing - it's terrifying. It all comes back to that TPratchett joke about how parents should have to pass more than just the physical :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, ok, I suppose it would be pleasent to look after something; but the worry of supporting an abusive market is a rather real one, it's not *just* pedantry :)

No, I like it. It just threw me for a bit, because it *was* something I'd like to achieve, but I didn't see how you know that :) AAAAAGHHHH! Don't even say mortgage, organising a bank account is still difficult :) But I suppose everyone else manages.

Yep. I even have a cat sometimes; he's a neighbours who visits me :)

Indeed. Very eek. But all the same, better one of us than the people who'd fail *abysmally*. Sometimes in life you have to accept that doing the best you can is better than not taking on the commitment, but it's still very scary.

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

Is the goldfish market abusive? Tropical fish yes, but goldfish?

Sorry

Neighbours' cats are nice. you can play with them, but have the right to throw them out later.

Sometimes in life you have to accept that doing the best you can is better than not taking on the commitment, but it's still very scary.

You've become very profound recently :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe not. The point is I'd feel obliged to find out first. Libby (Dad's dog) was one who just snuck up to us outside a pub from being stray and when unable to find her owner we adopted, which is a nicely satisfying way of doing things, though you miss out on the whole puppy thing :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I didn't know your dad had a dog. Is that since you left for uni? How cute!

Missing out on the puppy thing also (hopefully) means missing out on the house training thing - there are benefits :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Not at all, I almost grew up with her :) but she died years ago :(

LOL. Yes, I can see the advantages. I don't think I'd be especialy good at training, I'd keep wanting to use measure space metaphors, which would probably go over it's head :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, measure space metaphors would go over my head.

Did we touch MSs briefly in Analysis II after metric spaces, or am I on the wrong page entirely?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thus demonstrating that *whatever* a man is talking about, up to and including measure space and puppies, a woman can come along and accuse him of calling her a dog :) This is why tact doesn't work :)

Anal II? I really can't remember any more. I think that would be a logical place, a lot of it is about extending the concept of integration, but I was just using it as an example, I'm too hazy to say for sure.

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

a woman can come along and accuse him of calling her a dog :)

OK, I wouldn't have done until I read that comment. Huh!

Oh. Integration. *R is horrified as the memories start flooding back, and puts a lid on them firmly* Huh!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oops :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

uh huh

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the sort of thing they say :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I thought you said you were re-reading some maths? After all, whatever bollobash might say, integration is just clever ways of doing a REALLY BIG summation :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

No, I said I was in a bad mood and I was going to. Apparently the mood wasn't bad enough :)

I know this has nothing to do with what we've been discussing, but I need to ask you - do the characters fart on the Simpsons in addition to belching, or is that gross beyond even them?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Ah, fair enough. The post about ladders and kinetic energy made me wonder if you had.

I really can't remember, I'm afraid. Have you tried google (carefully)?

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

You're the guy who keeps leaving work early to go and watch them. Fat lot of good you are!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

They certainly *mention* farts. BTW, why on earth do you want to know? :)

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to write sap!fic ;) Don't worry, I've rewritten the beginning - we're in Jack POV now.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

"Sap!fic"? What's that, and what does it have to do with simpson farts?

Yours,

Puzzled of cambridge.

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I'll stop being deliberately obtuse.

I want to write sappy Sam/Jack fic - because I haven't yet, and I want to see if I can do it - and they're watching the Simpsons. In my head Sam doesn't really find them funny, and she's moaning about them and how gross they are to herself.

Except the plot bunny came to me when I was washing my hair yesterday but I couldn't write it then because I had to make dinner, and now the sap won't flow :(

Yours,

Grumpy of london

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, I've always said things that I happen to think sound profound :) I *have* been organising and blogging more of my thoughts recently :)