Multitasking

This morning, with a sore back, I’m struggling a little to sit still, but I’ve managed to get things done. As I’m working along, I’m:

• Watching/listenting to the TechEd 09 Keynote
• Following/commenting about the keynote on Twitter
• Answering a few posts here and there
• Editing a few articles (2 so far today)
• Packaged up a few articles for someone else to edit (2)
• edited/scheduled 3 QODs around the articles
• Watched part of the space shuttle launch on Nasa TV.

And I’m writing this blog post.

A productive morning!

Having 3 monitors really helps here. I have Twitter/email on one, the main browser in the middle, which has been on the Keynote most of the time, moving to a few forum questions here and there.

The left window, which isn’t the largest, has been the main window today. I’ve had the publishing Q up most of the time, where I see which articles/scripts/questions have been submitted, and then I pick them and edit them. I primarily use Edit Plus for editing, so I copy/paste things into Edit Plus, clean them up, and then paste them back, often switching to email to send the author a note.

I’ve switched (for now) to Chrome as my main browser and it’s worked well for a few days. The one hassle is I’ll hold the mouse button too long sometimes and end up dragging a tab to it’s own window. Not sure I like that, but it has been handy when I wanted to do it.

A couple bathroom breaks, and a few for water/coffee have helped to relieve some back pain. If anyone out there has permanent back pain, I really feel for you. I just have sore, painful muscles that I know will get better, but I appreciate the pain.

Take care of yourself!