Posted August 17th, 2009 by Mike Lawson
I tweeted this afternoon:
Happy Monday! Look at the to-do list!
I also linked to this picture I took from my telephone:
And @FlitterbyG responded with:
@MrMikeLawson Ever try ‘Remember the Milk’? It’s been keeping my life sane for a few months now. I even have repeating reminders for BGLs.
And the truth is that yes I have tried Remember the Milk or RTM. In fact I got super excited about RTM and had it all linked up to text me reminders and I integrated it with my gmail. Then I slowly lost interest. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn’t have tons to do on my to-do list.
I’m giving it another go. And like FlitterbyG, I’m going to even put in a BGL testing reminder. Looking at a paper to-do list like this one every day will kill me. What I usually do is once the paper is full, I turn the sheet and add all of the un-done things to page #2…but as you can tell, there are quite a few un-checked items on my list.
So I’m going to give electronic to-dos another try.
Oh, and it is also helpful that my cellphone (the amazing G1 that runs Google’s Android software) has an application that allows me to manage my RTM list.
Posted August 17th, 2009 by Mike Lawson
If it wasn’t frustrating enough to switch computers, I had to get stuck with this hunk of junk.
I already posted about how I switched clubs last week, and my new office is most def. a step up. I like it here a lot. All of the lights work. What sucks though is this antiquated piece of technology that is slow and doesn’t have all of the capabilities I was used to.
To make matters worse, our IT department is currently super-busy with big projects and they have yet to setup my Outlook and port over my files from the old club.
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, isn’t it?!
On a side note, that photo above is a picture I took and edited back when I worked at a club in California. I didn’t even have a permanent desk for a while, so what am I bitching about?
Posted August 15th, 2009 by Mike Lawson
As you can read in my last post, I recently switched banks, and I had to live for almost 3 weeks without a debit card. In that time, my hosting for this website was supposed to be charged, and my site was down until I contacted my hosting service to tell them my new bank card number.
So I’m here.
Since my last post I’ve been pretty busy. I’ve received a promotion at work, and I’m now the director of my own club. In the few weeks that my blog was down, I wouldn’t have blogged much anyway. I was dealing with closing up shop at my old club where I ran technology programing with children, and I was training and getting settled into my new club which is in Tempe.
In that time I also missed a 12 of 12. Bummer. Here are some photos that people took of me in the past few weeks:
Posted August 2nd, 2009 by Mike Lawson
I just ended a 9-year dysfunctional relationship with Bank of America, and I’ve never felt so free. I hate everything about that bank, and I would advise anyone thinking about banking with them to do a google search or a twitter search on them first. And of course, closing my account was difficult too. Despite the word “America” in their name, if you open a BOFA account in California it is difficult to do banking in Arizona.
To close my account I had to go into an Arizona branch, then call a California toll-free customer service number, and then go back into an Arizona branch. I hate them.
I opened an account with Arizona Federal Credit Union, and I had to contact the HR department at work to cancel the direct deposit into my BOFA account and to sign up for my checks to be directly deposited into the new credit union account. I know that direct deposit mumbo jumbo usually takes a pay-period or two, and wasn’t worried about that. So I’ll have to stop in and deposit a paper check once or twice, no biggie.
On Friday I received my paycheck and on my lunch break I ran into the bank to deposit it.
The teller was really nice. I was “Mr. Lawson” and she was all smiles. Until she ran the check through the little check-reading-machine. “Umm…this isn’t a check,” she said with a bit of a tude. “It looks like you have direct deposit.”
I’ve never felt so stupid!
I politely explained how I just signed up for direct deposit and I’m so surprised it already is in effect. She just looked at me and handed back the non-check.
