La Bene Vita

Tuesday

Every time I open Yahoo to read my email, I get distracted by about half a dozen headlining articles and blog posts. Then I can't remember what I was about to do, and I completely forget to send that email I was contemplating before the upcoming State of the Union address or the latest celebrity fashion faux pas caught my eye. *kicks Yahoo*

I'm currently reading "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" by Jules Verne. As I followed our hero and his "worthy uncle" (Hahahaha! Great sarcasm for 1500's Europe) across desolate Iceland from Reykjavik to Mount Sneffles, I got curious. Were there really towns Ejulberg and Gardar, were there really fjords Kollafjord, Hvalfjord, and unother large, unnamed fjord, were there swamps and mountains and fields of lava in all the right places along the trek?

So I checked Google Earth. And, with the exception of the towns (whose names could have changed), it's all there: every fjord, every swamp, every river, every lava field. There's also a modern highway, 54, which goes from the third fjord (unnmed by Google Earth as well) to Mt. Sneffels, and Highway 1, which gets you from Reykjavik to Highway 54 at the unnamed fjord. I zoomed in and followed the highways, which, with the exception of about a few small towns and dozen or so random farms with no neighbors to speak of, are just as desloate as Verne describes. How did he know? He didn't have Google Earth. Chris the office manager suggested that he might have consulted travel logs, which apparently was the thing to do back in the day.

I got so sucked into my geeky Google Earth project that I was late for my Monday morning worship planning meeting. But it has nothing to do with my failure to get anything on my list done. I never get anything done on Mondays and Tuesdays, because I'm running the lobby and computer lab. I need to hire some more help! But I can't afford it yet.

Reach 300 students by 12/31/11:
* Develop a Q1 promotion & ad plan by 1/7: In progress. We do have a plan. We need to implement it.
* Develop a summer program plan by Spring Break: Meeting 2/4.
* Business Cards: Pending.
* Vocal warm-ups CD: Pending.

Customized database by 12/31/11: Design web page interface for potential form.
Pending.

Potbelly: : Add one repertoire song per week
Yesterday, I dug through my old files and played about an hour's worth of songs I haven't played in a couple years. That's good enough.

Messiah: One noteworthy accomplishment per month:
The sound system overhaul was incomplete, but successful for how much we got done. We're meeting again this Saturday.

Reading: One book per week.
I'm at 21%, but got distracted from actual reading by my research.

Writing: Goals TBD:
(1) Blog at WDC daily - Twice yesterday I thought I'd uploaded my post, but I must have been distracted. STUPID YAHOO. (I like blaming Yahoo.)
(2) Blog at MT.com   weekly. OVERDUE and FOUR PENDING. I think this is the one Storm Machine was referring to, but I feel like these should come from me. I just need more staff to take over the day-to-day operation, to free me up for implementing cool summer programs and writing blog posts.

Count points: TOTAL POINTS YESTERDAY: 26
Coffee (3)
Granola bar (2)
Banana (2)
Potbelly sammich (7)
Two chocolate-covered dried cherries (2)
Crackers (4)
Caramel corn (2)
ZonePerfect bar (4)

Sunday was almost 50 points, and I don't want to talk about it. I got into a big family fight over Sunday's points.