Author: Olly

I had only blogged yesterday about how i was finding it hard to remember to do all the things i need to do in a day. Notepads and stuff work kinda, but nothing works better than being told you have to do something when it needs to be done.

have looked around for many years trying to find a stable, striaghtforward solution to my time management disability, and yesterday after ONE search i found it!

I have always liked using google products, as you know their servers are as reliable as they get, and that they will always be at the top of their game when it comes to new technology and new ideas.

So i looked for a google calendar application that could run on my pc. And i found Calgoo!

Its free, and sync’s with google calendar.

In fact, if you need to sort your time management out, just download it!

You will never forget to do anything! (as long as you have it running!)

My work is starting to get to the stage where i am constantly trying to catch up. There seems to be lots of niggly little things that i need to do but just dont get done. An ongoing maxxd gallery rebuild, random site updates and blog updates i never get time to do.

I am gonna have to deffo look into some day/time planning solutions. I looked into it before but it never really helped, i have tried having sheets where i plan my days down each morning. They worked for a few days but then i forgot about them. I have tried online planning, writing in a notepad kinda planning, and i still seem to forget about things and never finish huge jobs.

I have got a lot better with things over the last year or so, i dont forget as much as using a notepad as a short term memory works well. But i still dont find time to finish things like sorting the maxxd galleries. I will have bursts like the other day when went thru and sorted all folders into date format. So i put all cruises from 2004 in the 2004 cruises folder. etc etc.

I never quite got round to finishing the car ones, i got to lee’s old red corsa, and had a lot more to do! There are thousands and thousands of them. Maybe i should just dedicate a night here and there to it? I have got to think about webspace too though as that aint no small amount of data!

Im gonna try and improve my time management skills, i think allocating certain days to certain tasks/area’s is probably the best way forward. Ill see what i can come up with.

This is my grandad, he was the guy who taught me how to build random things out of bits of wood and introduced me to the benefits of using a thumb stick when out randomly walking in the woods.

I guess out of all my family, my grandma and grandad were the the only ones that i was really close to. And i wasn’t even really that close to them to be honest. I spent a lot of time as a child in the school holidays at their cottage playing in the fields and down by this little stream that was a short walk out their back gate.

I have fond memories of me and grandad in his shed and he would let me use his tools to make something random like a box or a shelf. They were always terrible but he always said they were brill.

I remember going out in him in his car – a yellow nova sr! He would put his driving gloves on and set off to some mates of his to get some fish or into the local village centre to see a man about a dog. Ill never forget how popular and well known my grandad was around skegness, he used to cut hair back when he was in his prime, so got to know most of the families in skeg, and that filtered through over the generations till it got to the stage where everywhere we went he was saying hello to people. And skegness (and the surrounding areas) is not a small area!

We’d go to the woods and we would walk through with our thumbsticks, he was the thumbstick master! From time to time he would participate in the hunting in the local forests, and do some bush beating. He used his thumbsticks to hit the bushes to set the birds off. I didnt care about that though i just thought they were cool cos my grandad made them.

He has recently been ill due to old age, smoking 20 a day for 70+ years, and having a bad fall. He never really recovered from the first time he went in hospital a few weeks ago.

We arrived at the hospital about 5:20 after a call from my aunty M saying that he wasn’t doing well. There were a few of the family there just looking over this small figure that was my grandad. He wasn’t breathing well, and had his eyes almost shut. There was no sign of life apart from the occasional gasp for air.

His breathing slowed down, and at 6pm on the 28th March 2008 his breathing stopped.

The picture above was taken on his 86th birthday, which was on the 8th of December 2006.

One hundred and eleven days later and he’d dead 🙁

Rest in peace grandad.

You will be remembered and missed forever.

In an effort to save the world or something, were all supposed to turn our lights off at 8pm, till 9pm. I dont think we have to turn our computers off though so just move the keyboard near the screen or something.

Google have turned their lights out, and when you think about it if everyone in the UK (and in some parts of Europe) turn their lights off at the same time it would probably save enough energy to power the whole of london for a day, if not much more!

So turn your lights off at 8pm, and back on at 9 folks!

Ill be doing it!