Decisions

We've had some snowy weather in the past week. I all looks beautiful, until of course you have to shovel it or drive in it. Then it's not so much fun. The younger boys had almost a whole week off from school due to the weather. Even Misce's classes were canceled last Wednesday and Friday. Work is busy, and going fairly well. This is all well and good, but this is not what is most on my mind. In my current side project, I'm still upgrading the server and upgrading some long out of date software that runs on it. All this prep work is preventing me from working on the core problem that I want to solve and working on the main part of the project that I want to implement. The stuff I'm doing is tedious and it is taking me too long. Some of that is due to low motivation. Some of these tasks I really don't want to do but they can't be ignored or side-tracked any longer they need to be done. The update of the relatively ancient shopping cart running in production on the server is the most glaring example. Another part of it is I'm not really sure what approach I should be following during this upgrade and what particular step to take next. The indecision and lack of enthusiasm is slowing me down and costing time. I need to make serious headway on this by the end of the week. The upgrade must happen at the very least on my local development system. That way I can then relatively easily and painlessly upgrade the server and the production copy. The worst part of this is doing this a couple of hours at a time at night. Once again, that's where my trusty project notebook helps with the technical details. Also, this blog helps, even if it is just a way to vent a bit of my frustrations to get them out of my system and get going on the necessary work. By the end of February, I need to be once again be working on the project directly and not on ancillary tasks. It's been too long.