FW: Question

 

 

Thanks ….

 

Monica Collins

Appl Sys Prog Analyst I

Information Technology Directorate

Army & Air Force Exchange Service

214-312-2353 

collinsm@aafes.com

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From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:30 PM
To: Bradford, Mickey L.
Cc: Collins, Monica P.
Subject: RE: Question

 

Ok, the attached jpg is a screen shot of my desktop.  3.5 monitors. 

 

·         Outlook: Since it's not really condusive for us in IT to keep Outlook closed, like numerous time management tout that you should, I keep it open on my left-hand screen. 

·         ClearContext: I have an add-in called ClearContext within Outlook, which I use to help organize incoming tasks and projects. 

·         Win-Organizer: I store my working projects in this.  Although this application has a lot of good features, the item that sold me was the ability to create any number of alarms on each subtask within a given task.  I originally started out keeping all of my project info in Outlook tasks, however the fact that I could only create one alarm within it, or set up numerous calendar events, was a major drawback to me.  As I have worked with Win-Organizer, I have created templates for myself for given project or task types, to assure that steps are not missed.

·         Chrome: I have set up Google Chrome as my alternate IE browser.  I still have to use Microsoft IE for AAFES-related pages, because Chrome can't render all of the data properly.  I installed Chrome for an add-in called StayFocused that I came across a couple of months ago.  I have checked in the past and I have found no way to be able to block certain sites.  I have been wanting to do this for some time to avoid surfing and getting sidetracked.  I had tried another app some time ago, but was unable to continue using it.

·         ManicTime: This tracks what I do on my PC (see attached PNGs).  This has been great because within any given day, I move back and forth between items so much that I find it hard to track just what exactly I have done.  I installed this a few years ago when we had to be more detailed in the time we reported.  I now go and create tags every hour so that I don't have to try and remember at the end of the day what I was doing where.

·         3M Digital Post-Its: I use these post-its because I am able to add an alarm to them.  I also currently keep the information written on my white boards on them, so that they are in front of me. 

·         TimeLeft: This app has reminders, notes (they don't have alarms so I only use this version of notes for a couple of things), clocks and stopwatches.  I have various reminders set up throughout the day, such as when to switch to a different type of project, etc.  Within each of those, I am also able to set numerous alarms, such as at different times of the day for a specific thing.

 

 

 

Thanks ….

 

Monica Collins

Appl Sys Prog Analyst I

Information Technology Directorate

Army & Air Force Exchange Service

214-312-2353 

collinsm@aafes.com

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From: Bradford, Mickey L.
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:15 PM
To: Collins, Monica P.
Subject: Re: Question

 

Yes please.

Thanks,
Mickey Bradford



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From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:07 AM
To: Bradford, Mickey L.
Subject: Question
 

Would you be interested in knowing the software/methods that I currently using to keep my tasks on track?

 

Thanks ….

 

Monica Collins

Appl Sys Prog Analyst I

Information Technology Directorate

Army & Air Force Exchange Service

214-312-2353 

collinsm@aafes.com

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FW: Head First books and others on LAN

This will be great.  I’ll now have a study partner.  I had suggested to Scott that these books might be useful to Wedad and he had suggested that I suggest them to her.  This would help towards of my goals for the year.

 

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:53 PM
To: Blevins, Scott S.
Subject: FW: Head First books and others on LAN

 

FYI …

 

Thanks ….

 

Monica Collins

 

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:53 PM
To: Shurrab, Wedad
Subject: RE: Head First books and others on LAN

 

Why, thank you.

 

Thanks ….

 

Monica Collins

 

 

From: Shurrab, Wedad
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:17 PM
To: Collins, Monica P.
Subject: RE: Head First books and others on LAN

 

I do, but I thought of sharing it with you since you are learning ASP.NET.

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:05 PM
To: Shurrab, Wedad
Subject: RE: Head First books and others on LAN

 

I thought that you might have already known ASP.NET.  I had picked out these for myself:

 

Apress.Pro.ASPNET3.5.in.C.Sharp.2008.Includes.Silverlight2.3rd.Edition.Jan.2009

Wiley.ASP.NET.3.5.For.Dummies.Feb.2008-BBL

Wrox.Beginning.ASP.NET.3.5.In.CSharp.and.VB.Mar.2008.rar

 

 

 

Thanks ….

 

Monica Collins

 

 

From: Shurrab, Wedad
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 12:46 PM
To: Collins, Monica P.
Subject: RE: Head First books and others on LAN

 

Yes sure we can work them together. I have found this book also you might like to add it to the list.

 

OReilly.Learning.ASP.NET.3.5.2nd.Edition.Jul.2008

 

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 12:25 PM
To: Shurrab, Wedad
Subject: Head First books and others on LAN

 

Wedad,

 

                The folder that I was referring to is \\galaxy\boa\E-Books\.    I thought that you might benefit from some of them.  Since I am seeking a web developer position in future, I’ll also be reading through them.  Maybe we can work through them together.

 

From the Head First series:

 

Oreilly.Head.First.Data.Analysis.Aug.2009

Oreilly.Head.First.Design.Patterns.Oct.2004

OReilly.Head.First.Object.Oriented.Analysis.and.Design.Nov.2006

Oreilly.Head.First.Web.Design.Dec.2008

Smashing.Professional.Web.Design.Mar.2010

Smashing.Professional.Web.Design.Volume.2.Feb.2011

Smashing.Professional.Workflow.For.Web.Designers.May.2011

 

 

 

Thanks ….

 

Monica Collins

 

 

Interesting, what I do here

Clay, Jeffry A.

k, i'm approving mw00QA1

4:49 PMCollins, Monica P.

k, thanks

4:49 PMClay, Jeffry A.

approved

going to do coffee duty. be back in about 15 min

4:49 PMCollins, Monica P.

i know, i see it

checking

4:52 PMCollins, Monica P.

oh, my bad. i see what i did: i got cris-crossed, which is probably why you asked me. i'm going to wait until i have gotten everything set, and then checked myself to make sure that i have all of my ducks lined up in a row lol.

4:58 PMCollins, Monica P.

that's one nice thing about my doing these powerpoints, which i had originally done for the peer reviews: makes it much easier to verify what i think i've done.

5:08 PMClay, Jeffry A.

i'm out of here, unless you need something real soon

5:09 PMCollins, Monica P.

no. i can have prod control do it. i'll send an email when i am done. I've already loaded this file comparison display file onto the portal.

FW: Cubicle

 

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:53 AM
To: Blevins, Scott S.
Subject: RE: Cubicle

 

No biggie.  I’m used to the (relatively infrequent) complaints.

 

 

From: Blevins, Scott S.
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:44 AM
To: Collins, Monica P.
Subject: RE: Cubicle

 

At this point we don’t have any cubicles available and moving you may not work because you will still be next to others.

 

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:11 PM
To: Blevins, Scott S.
Subject: Cubicle

 

I’m going to be proactive and go ahead and make a formal request for a different cubicle, before whoever it is gets ticked again.  My thinking/singing/humming/etc out loud has been mentioned some 4 to 6 times in the 23 years that I have been here, so that should tell people that it won’t be correcting itself anytime soon.  I’ve got an explanation for it in one of these books on my shelf; I’ll see if I can locate it.  The simplest explanation is that my external thinking never fully became internal thinking.  It drives me crazy that I do it, so I’m sure that I tick quite a few people off.  I have to concentrate to correct it, so if I’m concentrating on working, I’m not concentrating on not voicing my thoughts.  Lol, it drives my boyfriend crazy that I sing and dance to the Muzak at the grocery store and that I don’t use the blinker when we’re in the car talking but I do it perfectly when I’m driving by myself.  Same thing.

 

 

 

This year's goals

 

From: Collins, Monica P.
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:39 PM
To: Lacy, Robert P.; Collins, Monica P.
Subject: Conversation with Lacy, Robert P.

Collins, Monica P. [1:08 PM]:

oh, BTW, I am back to using the D-word.

Lacy, Robert P. [1:08 PM]:

?

Collins, Monica P. [1:08 PM]:

you know, diet.

Lacy, Robert P. [1:08 PM]:

lol

thats not how it works

Collins, Monica P. [1:09 PM]:

I know.  However, my weekends are usually different when it comes to how I eat, sleep, etc. 

Lacy, Robert P. [1:09 PM]:

i see

Collins, Monica P. [1:09 PM]:

Sad, but true.

I don't even take my scripts regularly on the weekends because of it.

Collins, Monica P. [1:15 PM]:

It's the difference between a 5 day plan, versus a 2 day plan.

Collins, Monica P. [1:31 PM]:

I told you that I marked what I should be working on everyday for the rest of the rating year, didn't I?

Lacy, Robert P. [1:31 PM]:

ya

Collins, Monica P. [1:31 PM]:

I calculated everything for the 'Exceeded' instead of the 'Expected'.

I've got three to get finished in the next three weeks.

Lacy, Robert P. [1:33 PM]:

dang

Collins, Monica P. [1:33 PM]:

lol, the three items are each 'this close' to being finished lol.

Collins, Monica P. [1:39 PM]:

So, how many items did you give yourself to have done by Feb 1?

Lacy, Robert P. [1:39 PM]:

a few

most of which are almost done

Collins, Monica P. [1:40 PM]:

same here.

I would really like to get those 3 I mentioned done by the end of July.  Having Exceptionals on my PGW would be really, really sweet.

Lacy, Robert P. [1:42 PM]:

yea

Collins, Monica P. [1:52 PM]:

I have the feeling that I'm gonna be putting in a lot of overtime

Lacy, Robert P. [1:53 PM]:

mmhmm

Collins, Monica P. [1:54 PM]:

If I were linear, it wouldn't be much of a problem, however, being an abstract ...

Collins, Monica P. [2:02 PM]:

hmmmm ... looks like I'm gonna have to look up what constitues an average salad size.

I just finished my salad, and I am fairly full.  I'm  guessing I shouldn't be feeling this close to bursting.

Collins, Monica P. [2:07 PM]:

lol, you should see how busy my calendars are lol

Lacy, Robert P. [2:07 PM]:

must be nice

Collins, Monica P. [2:07 PM]:

lol, um, yeah

Lacy, Robert P. [2:07 PM]:

i dont have the patience for calendars

in that i wont fill them out

or read them

Collins, Monica P. [2:08 PM]:

I normally don't either, which is why I don't know when anything is going on lol.  I'm trying a new tactic.

Collins, Monica P. [2:12 PM]:

On my left screen, behind Outlook, I've been keeping the Internet portal page and my Google Calendar page up.

I currently have my new PGW calendars residing in Evernote.  Maybe I can move all of that data to Google.  That way, I could set up a pop-up to remind me of what I'm supposed to be working on that particular day.

I like that idea.

Collins, Monica P. [2:17 PM]:

Actually, it's even better: a reminder/pop-up is far better than just having a page that I might or might not look over up.

Now I've just got to decide between my Google calendar or my Outlook one.

Collins, Monica P. [3:26 PM]:

K, I've decided: as much as I'd prefer to keep all of my work-related alarms in Outlook, I'm going to add these to GCal because it pops up each reminder in it's own box, instead of throwing them all into one box.