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Posts about reading and implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done.

Timeline of Events in re: Replacement Treo

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1500 CDT, 10-Oct-2006: RMA ordered.
1607 CDT, 10-Oct-2006: Shipment picked up, Fort Worth, TX.
0526 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Email from Cingular regarding tracking number received.
0550 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Pre-dawn cursed, laundry cycled, above email read with one eye open while other eye remained shut in protest of wakefulness after <5 hours sleep.
0552 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Tracking number viewed.
0553 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Reload.
0558 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Reload.
0615 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Reload.
0616 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Heavy sigh, command decision made to return to bed for brief stay.
0701 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Phone arrives at DHL station at HSV.
0720 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Alarm clock considered for defenestration.
0722 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Dryer re-started. Mental cursing of buying cheap-ass dryer seven years ago again ensues.
0723 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Reload.
0724 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Disbelief that overnight means overnight, for once.
0740 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Keys and wallet in hand, email dashed off to manager, “Will be late, must go slay DHL dragons.” Message received loud and clear: DHL has lost hardware for our organization before.
0810 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Counter jockey disbelieving that driver hasn’t already loaded phone on truck.
0811 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: User smirks, knowing that the DHL truck in his ‘hood runs late afternoons.
0813 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Counter jockey claims user is “lucky”, walks off, presumably to find part.
0816 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: Counter jockey returns with printout, services next customer in line.
0817 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: User considers punching out counter jockey, customer.
0818 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: User reconsiders, realizing that city jail unlikely to show Bruins-Thrashers on TV. [The inconsiderate fuckers.]
0822 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: User signs for phone. Counter jockey enters signout, then note that user picking up phone.
0856 CDT, 11-Oct-2006: User reloads tracking site, smirks at counter jockey ineptitude, heads for shower.

Re-wired

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An immediate benefit of my decision to time-shift much of the TV that I watch to the weekend is that I took time I’d have otherwise spent watching TV to re-wire my home network, moving the cable modem upstairs and finally re-connecting my wireless router [rather than the wired router I've used for the past month or two] to the network. It took a little doing—I had to call in to Knology to register a new MAC address, because even cloning what was on the old router wasn’t working, and I started a second call and had just gotten the tech support rep on the line when VOILA! it came online—but now I’m back up and running.

Of course, I lost the IP address I’d had since moving here in the process, but … no loss there, really. Now I must go downstairs and pick up my roommate’s network cable and bring it up here, as something tells me that he’d like to continue to have access.