Today is the first day of spring, 10 days to go until April and yesterday we had a small snow storm which brought 7 inches of snow. Most of it is now already again melted and the remains will be surely gone by tomorrow as it will warm up to almost 60°
Just like April tosses with the weather, being mid projects is a blessing and a curse.
On one hand it allows me to indulge into improving my own skills and my sites, but on the other hand it invites introversion and worries about future income and the stability of it.
The most annoying about this situation is that instead of getting a great head start with upgrading my sites – which invokes reach of future potential clients – it all crashes down to a slimy drag, every inch of the way a fight for it, leaving me constantly with this feeling of not having achieved enough progress.
The best I can do in such a situation is to work on playfulness and to not take it all so serious. Often easier said than done! One important step of this is to set limits: work only this specific amount of hours on development and then do something distinctively different. Because no matter how hard I try or want it, I am not able to finish it all off in one or two days and no amount of frustration about this fact will change it nor make the design any better, while on top of it, working too man hours a day on it introverts me and make me feel even more inadequate.
Oh, did I mention? My new site design is coming along really nicely.
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Countdown
This countdown to next Saturday feels currently to me in the magnitude of the night before the yearly school excursion, or the week before leaving to move to the USA.
The days before the release of the first iPhone where a mixed bag: there had been the discussion with which version to go, if at all – I had suggested the low end one as I barely use a cell phone and my spending budget was tight at the time too, but the boys where all determined on the best one, so I let myself get greedy too and went with the same model.
This time around things are a bit different: Bear and I both agreed on taking the low end route and go with the cheapest model first – which means 16 GB and no 3G. And it appears that Trey is passing on it completely (which I can hardly believe!). We both chose this approach because we know there will soon be a better model coming out, and that’s when we want to get the better ones.
A big reason to me for being this excited is the fact that I already own a ton of iPhone applications and many of them are dimming away in the archives because they need a larger screen to really shine. Mainly sketching applications come to mind here. Can’t wait to play around with those! And I really, really hope they will work well enough for daily sketches and so on. If so, this will be heaven, well, almost.
Only 6 more days to go.