Updates on a sleepy afternoon

Yesterday Suj and I edited the training video footage with Sylvia, in her tall narrow house in Bernal Heights. It's the sort of house and the sort of neighborhood that seem to be unique to San Francisco: narrow houses crammed wall to wall and painted in the oddest mishmash of pastels; seamless concrete driveways substituting for lawns; a grassy park rising suddenly amidst it all. The quiet of Mission Street nearby unsettles me-- having grown up near Los Angeles, I'm used to main thoroughfares being noisy, crowded, and smoggy.

The training video is just a part of the training materials Suj and I are developing, as a (massive) sub-project of the (already massive) Replication Project. It ambushed me in the middle of the week, throwing off my plans for the rest of the week. I've had to push all my other deadlines back a week, and given that working on the training materials will likely consume any extra time I have over the next few days, it looks like those deadlines may have to be pushed back even farther. No wonder it takes so long to get things done... You begin a project excited and ambitious, but then you begin other projects just as excited and with just as much ambition, and suddenly they've all piled one on top of the other while time has grown both shorter (generally) and longer (after about 3pm or so most days).

But we've got some exciting stuff in the works, and it's fantastic that we're able to generate our own ideas, develop plans for them, and see them through to make them a reality. Yay startups!