Busy busy busy
It seems I am embroiled in a lot of different projects and activities at the moment, and this is absolutely fine in the summer holidays. However, it will definitely not be in September when I will have far too many subjects to be able to do the amount of tasks that I am carrying. The problem is that often I find I am not actually doing enough actual work, but I plod through anyway so it isn’t too important. My issue is primarily with my Wikimedia work where I do number of different things – my main jobs at the moment are IRC group contacting, e-mail response team work, press and communications work and mediation on the English Wikipedia. The problem with all this is that increasingly I find that little jobs such as admin work, queries for advice and other non-Wikimedia projects such as working on Heather Gladney’s website are being put aside as I haven’t the time. I’ve also been promoted on freenode staff which means there is more stuff I can be involved in. Doesn’t actually use that much more time, though.
So, the answer is to start dropping jobs. This is unfortunately not that simple because that set of jobs that I actively do are all ones that I really like and thing I’m reasonable at. IRC group contacting is something I cannot stop because I am needed for that; I have brought in changes to speed things up and process cloaks very quickly as a freenode staffer. Answering e-mails on OTRS is important now that I am additionally doing the press queue as part of communications work. It would be reasonable to take a break from answering the general info queues as they have plenty of people on it, but I haven’t been that active on that anyway. Press and communications work is short-staffed and I think I’m pretty good at it, so I want to continue with that one. That leaves mediation… I really like the idea of it and think that is an important part of the community (and am honoured to be involved) but at the same time I’m not actually that great at it. It sucks time in with the reading required and often I’m not sure where to go. I am now weighing this one up.
We played DnD last Sunday, and it went very well. I was able to DM effectively and the players made it very entertaining by coming up with things; it was nice having Jonathan do most of the combat and riding on the airship was fun. The pickled brain prompted me to give brine-related magical abilities to our party leader, who can now do some cool stuff. The party used strategy but quickly bored of combat so the dungeon I made was sorta wasted as it has been before, but it wasn’t a problem. They did the key bit of having the rest of the story explained to them: they are now at a stage to continue the campaign next year fully understanding what their aims are. More here.
Well, I bought the Harry Potter book a lot earlier than I expected to and have consumed it quite happily. I originally decided to wait and get it out of the library, resolving that since the the past two books had been spoilt for me this one would be too. However, the opportunity arose as I am with grandparents at the moment to buy a copy relatively cheaply and so I did. It was definately worthwhile; it was *a lot* better than I expected. The story of the book itself was good and the overall plot, coming together across the series bringing in elements and characters from all the way through, was brilliantly done. I realise Rowling is, as they say, an excellent story teller. The hype that surrounds the release however remains absurd as it isn’t that good.
You’ve spelt ‘Definitely’ wrong you nitwit.
definately??
Really
You made a grammatical error in your comment.
Missed commas aren’t as important as spelling a commonly mis-spelled word…