Progress on little stuff

[cjsmith]

After I got a big pile of small things finished at work, I felt incredibly relieved. I think I didn't realize how much pressure I was feeling. (Probably mostly self-generated, of course. It's one of my superpowers. Along with getting singled out by airport security. But I digress.)

So I spent a little time doing something fluffy and non-urgent. I began catching up on marking LJ memories.

I use the LJ memory feature as an indexing system for my own posts. This is mind-bogglingly, staggeringly not what it was designed for. Still, it's better than nothing. (I do add friends' posts occasionally, but those get marked nearly as quickly as I see them and aren't a "catch up" issue. Mine on the other hand...!)

Anyhow, as of this afternoon I've caught up to January 2003. Heh. Aren't you all consumed with envy now?

Comments

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

You mean I'm not the only one that uses it that way?!?

Gosh, I thought I was behind in entering things ... I haven't done October yet. With the exception of a dozen or two sporadic posts from when I first started my LJ, I have everything in there through the end of September 2004. I guess because I thought of it early on, and have been doing it ever since.

Hey, I'm organized! Whee! But it sucks that LJ has no way to search your own journal and forces us into such a clunky system for finding our own past entries.

[ambar.livejournal.com]

If you allow it to (I think it's allowed by default), Google would be happy to index your journal. The public posts, anyway.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've thought about that. (I currently have it turned off.) Sadly, the ones I'm most likely to want indexed are filtered or private anyhow...

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

I do it too, when I can remember. LJ's default searching and indexing really sucks.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Well, I'm anal-retentive enough that I know I'll catch up in not too long, now that I've identified how far back I need to go.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, another crazyperson -- I mean someone who thinks like I do! :-)

I'm pretty far behind, but I'm also pretty fast at catching up once I get going. Good luck on October!

[ambar.livejournal.com]

I am down from 80 to 54 messages in my personal email inbox. Have emptied all my work-related inboxes, but not done the work weekly review (and I have sworn to be walking out of the office at 7pm sharp today). Gnaaagh.

Woohoo!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's progress! I like progress!