Fresh start, good habits (I hope)

Now that I've officially started my new job, I"m trying to develop/reinforce a couple of good habits.

One of them is sitting down and planning out my day. I started doing this after I got a copy of Time Management for System Administrators (the link throws Tom a few shekels), which saved my sanity. (If you haven't bought that book yet, do it now. It's that good.) However, I haven't been as diligent in going through the motions every day like I should. Today was a good chance to get back into the swing of things…especially since there were about 50 emails waiting for me when I got here! It was reassuring to see the list of completed tasks grow; it's very satisfying to cross something out in my planner.

The second is Daily Doc ("Cute names a specialty" — Aardvark Consultants). There has been a ton of stuff in the last little while that I've been wanting to document, but The One True Source (a wiki) has been in a state of flux until, well, today. I'm going to try my best to take 15 minutes at the end of every day and just write something down, or improve something that's already there.

There are other things I want to accomplish to, but that'll do for today. Gotta give you some reason to come back tomorrow…