Completion.

Every night I pick up my to-do list, mourn how nothing on it is fixed or completed, and begin to add even more items to it.  It has become more and more difficult to end each day with a profound sense of “incomplete” in my life – nothing getting finished, while more and more things require attention.

Today brought with it the completion of several outstanding items.

1. Bottle Drive.

We had a bottle drive for our teens.  While not technically an unresolved task-list item, it was an event that feels remarkably successful, and there is a certain amount of dread and fear that accompanies even the smallest youth event. Completed.

2. Cable Wiring.

Every year the church rents a big-screen tv for a superbowl party, and we enjoy a great time of food and fellowship.  After the Superbowl last year, I got to thinking about how we could splice our cable and run it to the church for this event – and tonight I completed it.  It involved a ditch witch, 200 ft of underground cabling, and more RG6 splitters, connectors, and crimp-style terminators than you would believe.  Can I register for a Crimping tool in a baby registry?

3. Firefly Imageworks Persistent Cart

I’ve been doing some application development for Firefly Imageworks on-and-off (mostly off.. sorry d.j!) but completed the bulk of a Persistent Cart tonight.  I built the major portion of the Cart mechanism back in August, but some major work was left incomplete… until today.

We’ll see how much more I can get done before The Boy gets here in about 3 weeks!