Mixed Mind

Wow has it been a long time since I last wrote Mind Rest. Funny thing is I remember clearly the day I wrote it, I even remember the day before when I was sitting at Wally’s Subs, smelling the fresh bread and espresso. Well Pledge4Code wasn’t a big success but it did lead my partner into other progressive ideas and projects. I have decided to pursue another type of profession but I still dabble occasionally in programming. Currently I am waiting for summer quarter to start and am ambitiously searching for full time work. The reason for the title Mixed Mind is because I have been paying more attention to what is going on in the nation politically and I am so fed up with the two party system, I don’t like either and how they’re stereo-typed and portrayed. I wish I had profound ideas on how to fix things, but things are so complicated in the world and in our own nation. Besides all that Im feeling the pressures of fatherhood. I think constantly on how Im going to raise my daughter, the values I instill in her, will she grow up in a hostile world? What kind of school is she going to attend? Those kind of thoughts are scary running through my head currently.

Mind Rest

My last entry didn’t include a lot of what I have been mulling over in my head since the important meeting w/ the co-founders of Pledge for Code. I have had so many compelling thoughts concerning the direction I want to go with the company and the risks and responsibilities that go with it. I have been activating neurons that haven’t fired in a while, which is opening up a new found perspective on a lot of things, but I am going to marinate on  those thoughts a while before I let you in, besides the point of my entry today is to talk about how I am going to take what information and thoughts over the last three days and concentrate on them. The title of this entry can seem to imply that I am just sitting around and zoning off, but I promised myself not to become complacent, so I created a place of mind called “mind rest”, which I will gather my thoughts on paper, and transfer them to screen and then rearrange and prioritize based on my feelings towards the topic, taking the hardest topic first then moving down the thought list, gradually getting to the easy topics, that way I feel completed and calm at the end, although this “Mind Rest” technique is still new to me and hasn’t been testing ( since I made up the idea ), I will have to leave the statistics to trial and report back.

“In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.”

Zen Saying

Mind Melt

So today started off late, but never the less as I move with a sense of urgency, made my way through town and arrived here at my destination, Wally’s Subs and Soup, a great place to eat in Olympia, WA, with a friendly atmosphere. I started my daily grind reading up on BIND9, and learning its many possibilities and shortcomings, although seemingly complicated, I believe I will conquer it before the end of the year. A lot of questions have been raised in my mind as I and a handful of associates delve into the stressful world of incorporating a business, one of which is money, that is why we start business’s right? As I sit here and type in my web log, I see patrons come and go into this little sandwich shop, the owner,Marcus, seems to be doing good in revenue, and I’m sure he’s turning a size-able profit, then I think to myself, that’s what I want for this new company, I want the customers/users to enter our site and think to themselves, “I bet this business is doing good”, because if they think that, then we have done the first step right, first impression. First impressions for P4C should be in the realm of an explorer finding a new world and realizing that this piece of prosperity is meant to be spread throughout the lands. I have great expectations for this new business plan and I can only dream right now of the potential. Currently I am off the clock so to speak, and I am looking forward to some leisure and rest so I will conclude this entry with a positive quote

“Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
~Confucius~