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As promised, here's what I hope to accomplish over the next three months:

1. Learn thirteen new VI commands/shortcuts, an average of one per week.

I'm resolved to be through with being intimidated by VI. There are so many different things it can do, and I want to learn more!

2. Post thirteen email-related or work-related blog entries, an average of one per week.

I really enjoy reading the blogs of my coworkers and hope that others will similarly enjoy reading mine. Besides, I didn't set this up just to not use it.

3. Work an average of at least three hours per day on weekends.

Of late, I've been getting fairly lazy on the weekends. I love having some downtime, but I also want to make sure I have a share of productive time as well.

4. Read all of Learning Perl.

I'm simultaneously in the middle of books on Perl, PHP, shell scripting, and Postfix. I'm honestly more interested in PHP since I hope to use it in some of my future projects, but Perl is still the one I understand least and stand to benefit the most from knowing more about.

5. Finish and upload the current batch of RT interface enhancements.

This will help pave the way for some of the snazzy, new things we'll be doing with RT down the road.

Personal Goals

6. Be out of bed by 7:15 at least four days of each week.

I've always had the hardest time waking up in the morning. If I can force myself to not sleep in until 7:40, then I have the perfect amount of time to walk Dexter, work out, shower, and get ready for work.

7. Read one book for personal enjoyment -- God's Debris.

As is probably the case with most people, I bought this book because it's by Scott Adams, who also draws the Dilbert comic strips. This book is not related to Dilbert at all, and I'm interested in seeing how Adams does philosophy (very well, from the reviews I read).

8. Work out five days out of every week, barring injury or illness.

I'm tired of being so out of shape and have been Nordic Track-ing every day for the last month or so. I want to keep it up this time, and not fall back into old, bad habits.

9. Add .1 miles to daily workout at the end of each month.

This will get me to 1.4 miles each day by the end of the quarter. My body is most averse to anything requiring endurance, but I think this is doable.

10. Take Dexter to the dog park at least three times.

Another way of making more of my weekends. Dexter loves the dog park and I love watching him have fun with other dogs :)

Shooting-For-The-Moon-If-There's-Time Goals

11. Begin work on integrating our accounts database with RT.

I can think of few things that would be as super-cool-neato-awesome as being able to see all of a customer's account information automatically when they submit a support request. To do this, we'll need to find a good way to make RT (which is Perl-based) talk to our accounts database (MS SQL). Should be fun!

12. Beef up the U2-Drive and get it running Xen/VMWare with multiple OSes.

We have a fair share of customers who run Mac OS or Linux, and this would be a great way to improve our support for all operating systems. Imagine being able to connect up to one central server and boot up a copy of Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux within a window on your own machine.

13. Complete at least one of three phases of the reseller provisioning project.

This will be an amazing time-saver; it's just a matter of allocating the time to code it. And, thanks to goal #3, I should have some extra time to work on my various side-projects.

I think it's safe to say I'm pretty stoked about this quarter. Now on with the rocking!