Ryan Carmelo Briones

Well, it's been over a week now since that snowy day. We got about about 4 or 5 inches of snow. That day I made the ultimate sacrifice, me against mother nature, never having driven in such conditions. I'm from Florida, you know. And for what?

Mii.

The day before I had gotten a tip from my brother-in-law that there was a rumor of Wii deliveries to some Best Buy locations. I checked the opening time of my local Best Buy. 10am on Sundays. We knew before hand it was going to snow, at least an inch or two. So I figured...heck, if I get there by 10am, I should be good. Honestly, who really knows about these Wii shippments and why would they be crazy enough to come out in the snow? Boy was I wrong. I arrived at about 10:15am to a line of at least 20 people. Luckily, even though I didn't know it at the time I walked up, there were 28 Wiis available at the store that day. I got my voucher and waited in line for 45 minutes. It was worth it. Stephanie put up some snow pictures. I put up my Wii pictures.

(confused by the title: read All your base are belong to us)

So, I've posted a lot of stuff in favor of net neutrality in the past. I've always thought it was a good idea, and in theory it is. Unfortunately, in theory, communism is awesome. So today as I was reading a digg on how the net neutrality battle was brewing and getting fierce and I was completely surprised by this comment. Surprised in a "good" way, though. ("good" where there are "sufficiently large" values of 2) It's an interesting perspective. Also, I got to use CiteBite.com for the first time.

So, I have to admit. I'm not doing good on "next actions" in the "reading Getting Things Done" department. I've recently "procured" a copy of "Getting Things Done Fast", an 8 CD version of David Allen's work in a "conference" setting, which I think may help my process. (I love my iPod) Anyway, in the little GTD that I have read and soaked in, the one thing that has hit home is zeroing out of the collection boxes. I've been doing an awesome job of getting my email inboxes cleared out and a not bad job of getting all my "next actions" into my GTD Moleskine, even though my version, a daily todo list variant, isn't blessed by the master. But, I feel better. In one of the 43 folders "Productive Talk" series, David mentions that in reality, getting fully into the GTD system usually takes about 2 years (yikes!), but people most of the time see results very quickly. So, I'm excited. As soon as I feel more confident about my GTD-fu, I may blog more about how GTD works with people in a Technology roll that contains even a little bit of technical support and how I interpret the "two minute rule". Until then..