Crap on my Desk

I just noticed a little pile on my desk. I'm doing the "cleaning my desk" routine, but finding I keep setting and re-setting my timer for 8 minutes (that's the time I've chosen, but I never seem to stay on task that long).

I'd take a picture but my camera and cell phone (w/camera) are involved, so there you go. The pile has the following:

1. Mini pad of paper with pen on top in an artful manner.
2. My Med Sun dispenser which I use when I travel and why it's here, I don't know. It's got medications, aspirins, Rolaids, you know the critical stuff.
3. My blue tooth gadget--very cool and fun. Would be even neater if I really knew how to use it.
4. A cheap watch-lanyard (i have no idea how to spell that--it hangs off your belt, anyone care to help me here?) that I got at Walmart for a couple dollars. I happen to have a weird magnetic field that kills watch batteries. If I get nine months out of a battery, it's a miracle, consequently I have a hard time keeping a watch running. So, I got this thing, but I don't really know how to use it either. The instructions are written in about a 8 pt font which I can't read. Whatever.
5. My brand spanking new cell phone, which is my first. So I don't know how to use it either. I'm trying to learn, but cripes, it's got a ton of junk I'll never use cause I'm too cheap to get suckered into paying another $10 or $15 a month just so I can check e-mail on a 1" screen.
6. My real camera, which I do know how to use. So, one out of 8 isn't bad. Actually I know how to use the pad of paper and pen, and I can use my pill dispenser, so I'm not batting as poorly as I thought.

Neat little pile-o-crap, if I don't say. Now, how to organize this mess when I need to have it all handy, but don't want clutter? Good luck, my friendly voice is saying.

So, I took the watch thing to my jewelery box, and put the pill dispenser in the bathroom where it belongs. I plugged in my cell phone and blue tooth, so they're out of the way. I also put the camera in the drawer, where hopefully I'll remember it is when I want it again, so all that's left is a pad of paper with a pen angled just so. How artful I am. ;-)

Website Hosting: What's Best?

Big question for sure. You want simple, and inexpensive, yet you want features and benefits, not just bells and whistles. Websites seem so complicated, yet they aren't really. One way to find out is get yourself a website host and start playing around; you can easily host a couple websites, one for go and one for show (or for my non-English friends, the real one and the play one).

I totally recommend Servage.net. They are an awesome hosting company, constantly offering more for your money and they are really responsive if you have questions. The link above includes a coupon which saves you $5 (I believe) the first month, or something like that anyway. It'll save you something, okay. Sheesh, do I have to remember everything?

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No business person should be using Comcast for e-mail, period. They throw away your e-mails and you don't even know. They blacklist thousands of companies including your doctor and lawyer and they are simply clueless about commerce. Plus, you still get plenty of spam via comcast servers so they can't even police themselves. Pure crap, and I strongly suggest if you are serious about running a business you get a Gmail.com address or some other address, anything but Comcast. Send me a message if you need a Gmail invite and I'm happy to send one along.

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Way Too Many Things, So Why Do I Add More?

Buried, as usual. We're rearranging the house, again. It's going to be awhile before it's all straightened out since we still haven't moved Chuck's stuff up.

I think I worry too much about being able to find things, so it takes me longer than it should to file things away. Solution ideas:

1. EFT on worrying about finding things

2. EFT on "it takes me longer than it should."
How long should it take? Is that really my issue, or is it, "I just want this shit filed and it isn't getting done so I need to blame someone"?

Let's work on that.