It's all good so far

I thought I had a set morning routine. Get up, get through the morning prayers. Turn the computer on and fight with Itunes as I try to get my morning podcasts downloaded for the commute. Then check the email and Facebook, and then get into the time suck – and review RSS feeds in Google Reader.  Off to the bathroom, go through the physical therapy exercises, get through the shower, dress, cook breakfast and talk to the wife over the paper.

Thursday I started out of the house at 7:40. I hit gridlock turning on to the main road through our city. It took three light cycles to get onto West Airport then to 59, Chimney Rock and into the building. Total commute time 50 minutes.

I was not at peace when I got to the office at 8:30.  This should be a 20 minute trip.  I called his Honor the Mayor of Meadows Place. I wanted to let him know what one of the citizens was experiencing trying to leave the neighborhood to go out and earn new tax money for him.

He said that West Airport’s last renovation was designed for an anticipated daily traffic load of 18,000 vehicles. The current TXDOT estimate is that we are seeing 39,000 vehicles per day on the street. He did say that the next round of renovation would be starting soon. Construction would take about a year.  He suggested that I look for a different route.  New Route = Windmill that I won’t tilt.

The solution, get up earlier.  Learn about options for improving the podcast update fight with Apple Itunes (Hello Instacast).  I won’t give up the exercise,  nor will I quit morning prayer or a civil breakfast with the wife.  I will just have to deal with the Google Reader notification telling me that there are 126 RSS updates to look at.

Friday was an earlier wake up and get underway.  I have started paring out the RSS Feeds.  There is a lot of duplication with some feeds.  .  Instacast does work for the podcasts.  And I make it to work at 7;30.

We have a theoretically free weekend.  No major scout events, no major Church obligations outside of reading at the 2nd service.

Looking at the home office and seeing the work that needs to be done there.  As I have previously mentioned, my company is relocating is corporate offices and consolidating Houston operations into a new building.  This will be challenging  because the size of the new building  will require minimizing each employee’s personal space.

Less space = Less stuff in the smaller offices.  I have already been purging personal stuff from the office and it is beginning to look fairly austere.  However, those displaced possessions have come home.  A couple of boxes on the floor of my closet, and  a couple more into the home office.  I had been in the process of organizing the home office, reducing paper and getting rid of clutter.  It is getting time to reboot that effort.

No bookcase at the office until we move – so my business strategy  and reference texts are home.  “Thriving on Chaos” has been stuffed next to “On the Border with Mackenzie”; “Good to Great” next to “Five Years a Calvaryman”.  A lot of stuff that needs review and recycling.  But now I have been informed of errands to be run, so its off again and promises to get back to the reorganization.