Agility Trial Report, con't

Here is a great photo of Splash at the agility trial last weekend, taken by photographer Dave Mills. We did the whole course in 23 seconds and change. As you can see, Splash is at full speed coming out of the tunnel and looking to me for his next direction. We had a awesome time! Thanks WAG!

Self-affirmation and agility report

First, a small brag. Last Sunday, Splash and I entered a "Tunnelers" run in the local NADAC trial. Splash adores tunnels. We had a great time, and we not only qualified, we got first place.

Anyway, I ended the last week feeling a bit depressed that I cannot seem to make any progress on my work to-do list. I'm taking a little criticism about it too. After thinking about this most of the weekend, I decided to just write down everything I do each day in a log. At the very least, it's something I can look over each evening and realize it was not a completely wasted day.

I've also resolved to read two books, and have ordered them from Amazon:

1. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
   I heard this author speaking on NPR last weekend and he was pretty convincing.


2. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

I'll write book reports when I finish them. But for now, my "to-do: DONE" list is making me feel very warm and happy. :)

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Still crazy busy

Still really busy at work, and I haven't written a T13 in TWO weeks. But anyway, here is something very cool I found recently, check it out! Who's Amung Us

13 Tech books I actually use

This is a very busy work week, and I'm buried in DOM and databases, so here's a tech-heavy list....sorry to all the non-techies out there, but you techies, send me your suggestions!

1) CF-WACK by Ben Forta. Also know as the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, but those in the know just call it the "cee-efff-wack".
2) Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 minutes , by Ben Forta. Ben's the MAN.
3) The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter) by Dave Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag
4) Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger by Dave Taylor Because my MacBookPro rocks. And yes, it does Windows.
5) The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks by Rachel Andrew Rachel's a great author, try anything by her and you will learn a lot.
6) ColdFusion Lists, Arrays, and Structures by Jeff Peters. My copy is falling apart I use it that much.
7) SQL for Smarties by Joe Celko Way better title than "* for dummies".
8) HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Rachel Andrew
9) Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual by David Pogue, Adam Goldstein
10) Head First Design Patterns Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
11) Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
12) DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith
13) Head First Java by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

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