Rants

There was an article in the paper Sunday that I thought that Sam would like. A while back, I started thinking that Sam was interested in creating video games.

Sam was interested in what the article talked about, so I asked him if he wanted me to help him see if he could find out more about the event, as in general information gathering on the Internet. I then asked him if there were anything other things, concepts, topics, communities, whatnot he might be interested in learning more about.

Short version: I don't know what Sam (or Jake, really) is interested in.

After looking for something I thought I might have archived in my GMail account, I took the opportunity to hit the link for Google+ the see what was going on in the (somewhat narrow) world of the people I follow there.

The first post I saw was danah boyd’s comments in response to Netflix’s appology/announcement about the splitting of Netflix into two services–Netflix for streaming and Quickster for mail-order DVD rental.

I’ve been a Netflix subscriber for several years. During that time, there have been a few upward adjustments in price of the service, but generally speaking, the changes in price haven’t caused confusion or haven’t adversely affected my happiness in the service Netflix provides.

The previous post talking about goals was difficult because of how long it took. In the end, I just wanted to get it out of the way. Like I said there, the post lost all it’s energy taking so long to write it.

As it is the post left me feeling like I forgot something.

I didn’t talk any about my own goals.

This year, most of my goals describe things I’m actually hope to be doing this year. There was some risk around if the goals related to completing specific projects or accounts where there is a chance the goal, no matter how important, would not get funded. So far this year, I’ve been lucky in that everyting has been funded, just months after originally planned.

And, yet, even given the important of these goals for the related business units and clients invovled, I’m actually more excited right now about an activity for which I don’t have a goal, but other people involved do (or at least it’s been suggested someone might).

The development of this post is starting to be funny, almost to the point where I’m scared to think about it.

This post has taken three months and one day to get to this point. And the funny part is the topic and trigger of this post is and was the development of annual professional goals at work.

Three months and one day, and 9 drafts, later, and this post is starting to scare me.

It could be an indication of how busy I’ve been. Or at least how little time I’ve been making for things that aren’t immediately family or work related. I started the first draft of this post on March 8 during a lunch trip to Bean There Cafe, and here I am, almost two months later, still working on it, on multiple trips to Bean There later.

Here I am now , and I’m still not sure this is going to be the last draft. Nor do I know that looking at the results of the last several drafts is going to be helpful, or if it just isn’t better to stare at an empty screen and become surprised that it slowly fills with [hopefully] useful thoughts.

Goals are something that I tend to have a somewhat complicated relationship.

It is not all that uncommon to find myself in the middle of looking for something. I'm not talking about looking for something I've lost. I think it's more looking for something I've ever never had or, at least, not had recently nor in significant quantities.