Daily Success January 27 – Outstanding.

Daily Success Yesterday

Success yesterday was a close call, but clearly over the minimum to reach Outstanding. It was, again, an overall effort with exercise leading the way. The short day and long evening tied to cousin Pat’s birthday celebration at Magnolia’s in Purcellville added to the challenge. Magnolia’s was nice, but not nice enough to make it into our restaurant rotation here in Kentlands. The prices were high and the food so-so.

The Project Pinecone progress was good with help from Jay on the suggested SBIR/STTR topics. No response from Stephan, however, which is worrisome. All the more so since SoftServe seems to have lost interest.

Success Today

Success today revolves around keeping things focused on the big goals while facing the challenges of each day. Today’s challenge seems to be Microsoft Project. We have a license for the software, but Microsoft now appears to be extorting more money in the form of some kind of monthly fee as well. If it’s too high, and I hope to know today, that may drive us to pay more for TeamGantt in Slack.

Companies like Microsoft and Quicken that sell software, then decide to extort more in the form of monthly fees to keep using what they sold are truly the high-tech equivalent of extortionists who kidnapped folks in earlier years. I find them disgusting and hope to find an alternative someday.

Success in the Future

Success in the future is not complex: eye on the real goals of getting Project Pinecone over the finish line, returning to the Camino, and enjoying my family as it is spread around the country … and even Europe with Mae Ling now in France for her semester abroad. It is wonderful for her, but I fear that she does not see the limits that only one semester in the south of France will impose. Europe is a big place and one does not simply hop from the Riveria to England to Germany to Paris and see anything at all except the inside of a train and the world sliding by on the exterior.

IMHO, she will have to go back. Ah, well. Youth, and all that.