2007 ramp-up
Dec. 23rd, 2006 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progAnd so 2006 glides to a close. This was an unusually homogenous year for me, especially coming after the crazy-quilt calendar of 2005. Volity dominated three-quarters of my year, though other non-blocking events happened in parallel, notably my befriending a whole group of new and excellent people (whom I think of as the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dictator555 circle, met via dougo).
As the year ends I find myself staring down a whole queue of topics that (except for Volity) had been waiting since this time last year for me to come down off my Volity jag. I really need to build personal mission statements around each one. They group themselves into four categories:
* Volity
* Dating
* Video production (mostly Gameshelf and Jmac's Arcade)
* Work (ITA and (hypothetically) other reliable income sources)
Air, water, fire and earth, eh? (Well, Volity's pretty fiery too, but let us not overthink my elemental shoehorning.)
Today, there is a general advance across all fronts, and I am actually quite pleased with everything. But I still need to figure out what I want to have happen in each section, and then keep that in mind over the course of the upcoming year.
I did write a little essay to myself about Volity the other night, and things are going to be all right. Here's the scene: the Andys and I have committed to feeding the project all the money it needs for the foreseeable future (mostly server-hosting costs). We will continue doing this until either something magical happens and it begins to pay for itself, or we all agree that it has become a hopeless financial drag. We cannot know when the former may happen, and we have a long way to fall before the latter occurs.
For my part, I will treat it as a hobby that happens to be incorporated as a business, and therefore holds that much wider a source of inspiration, and a target for application. Because I love it, I will continue to work on it as motivation strikes, and I expect it to strike regularly, but I won't hold myself to any guaranteed pace. This is a different way of thinking than I held when I started at ITA, when I thought my week would be divided between ITA-days and Volity-days. It eventually became clear to me that it instead fell naturally into ITA-days and jmac-days, and that this was fine, because it happens that I like to spend my time on Volity anyway... just not exclusively so.
I see good things for 2007, and I hope it will be good for you too.
dictator555 circle, met via dougo). As the year ends I find myself staring down a whole queue of topics that (except for Volity) had been waiting since this time last year for me to come down off my Volity jag. I really need to build personal mission statements around each one. They group themselves into four categories:
* Volity
* Dating
* Video production (mostly Gameshelf and Jmac's Arcade)
* Work (ITA and (hypothetically) other reliable income sources)
Air, water, fire and earth, eh? (Well, Volity's pretty fiery too, but let us not overthink my elemental shoehorning.)
Today, there is a general advance across all fronts, and I am actually quite pleased with everything. But I still need to figure out what I want to have happen in each section, and then keep that in mind over the course of the upcoming year.
I did write a little essay to myself about Volity the other night, and things are going to be all right. Here's the scene: the Andys and I have committed to feeding the project all the money it needs for the foreseeable future (mostly server-hosting costs). We will continue doing this until either something magical happens and it begins to pay for itself, or we all agree that it has become a hopeless financial drag. We cannot know when the former may happen, and we have a long way to fall before the latter occurs.
For my part, I will treat it as a hobby that happens to be incorporated as a business, and therefore holds that much wider a source of inspiration, and a target for application. Because I love it, I will continue to work on it as motivation strikes, and I expect it to strike regularly, but I won't hold myself to any guaranteed pace. This is a different way of thinking than I held when I started at ITA, when I thought my week would be divided between ITA-days and Volity-days. It eventually became clear to me that it instead fell naturally into ITA-days and jmac-days, and that this was fine, because it happens that I like to spend my time on Volity anyway... just not exclusively so.
I see good things for 2007, and I hope it will be good for you too.