So I don’t know if you noticed or not, but I haven’t been updating with the fervor I was a while back. Some of it has been work related, some of it has been personal, and all of it has resulted in a Great Piling Up Of Things.

I sat down after Kublacon and made a short list of things that have been piling up, and realized that the short list was rather long – long enough that if I only got caught up, I would be busy through the end of the year.

So I have initiated Operation : TCB. That’s Taking Care of Business, in case you are both a Bubba Hotep virgin and a Carl Perkins fan.

Phase One of Operation TCB means clearing off my desk, so I have a place in which I can work. I started this process late last night, and should have taken a picture of the desk before I got started.

However, I took a picture this morning of what the desk looks like after 3+ hours of archaeology. WARNING : NSF Neat Freaks

My Heaps and Mounds sorting structure serves me well when I am making SCIENCE from a bullhorn and an Arduino. But this system of organization falls down when I need to get some specific things done. In a way, clearing my desk is just reconfiguration to go from Inventing Mode to Production Mode. It’s like being a Transformer, without the explosions. Though you could argue that fire might improve things.

So, Phase One is clearing some work area.

Phase Two will be scheduling Work In nights.

Phase Three will be some kind of world domination.

I would love to say more, but I have things that need boxing.