for the choral piece that’s to be my project to begin this weekend. I’m thinking a psalm, but using both Latin and English versions, mixed up together.
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I’ve read a lot lately about a productivity technique called the pomodoro technique which I’ve been thinking could be useful as a way of organising myself into some more regular composition. So I gave it a go today while working from home and I have to say first impressions are quite positive. I’m definitely going to continue the experiment.
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and did a lot of preparation for Saturday night’s Christmas feast – we put the turkey in its brine, peeled and cut up the potatoes, made the rice pudding base for the ris a l’amande and wrote up a big minute-by-minute plan for getting everything to the table on time
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I’ve decided to dedicate 1 hour per week night to getting things done, with one night a week being devoted exclusively to music stuff. Tonight was the first night. Tomorrow I think will be the music night.
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Began to pull together some ideas (again) about how I want to tackle my new website. I’ve started this a couple of times but this feels meatier and more like it has a chance of making it to the coding phase.
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More financial stuff. I’m sure you don’t want to hear the details, but I’m basically done with it now, bar a couple of checks, so yay.
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Today I finished putting in all the transactions that couldn’t be downloaded from my assorted banks, and it’s so very lovely to see all my balances laid out so clearly and to know exactly where I stand. I also discovered a discrepancy of £200.17 (in my favour) which seems to have gone missing between the first and second statements for my UK working account, so I have put things in motion to get that fixed – got to call them back tomorrow. I even reconciled both my Australian working account and Visa account, and it was all so simple! I know this sounds like excess rapture, but if you’d seen the struggles I’ve been through over the past ten years with MYOB, then you’d understand – this feels like a HUGE leap forward. I now need to reconcile the remaining accounts and then look at setting up a first-draft budget. Time for that tomorrow 
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Bought and started setting up my new accounting package today – after much soul-searching and accountant-harrassing I finally settled on iBank. I think it’ll do the job admirably, and if it doesn’t they have a 30-day money-back guarantee when it’s bought from their website. So now I’ve started importing transactions. Just going back to July 2008 for the Australian accounts (start of FY2009) and April 2008 for the UK accounts (ditto). The import’s been really quite easy – nice and streamlined, although I do need to go over transactions and search out those that needed split categories as the splits can’t be notated during import. But so far, so funky. And now it’s nearly 3am so definitely time to call it a day.
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Cleaning up tags in Evernote, cleaning completed tasks out of my to-do list, setting up Max on the newly reinstalled Snow Leopard machine, sending a bunch of emails, extracting a list of accounts in use from MYOB so I have something to base my new accounts list on, pulling together figures for how much I spent on internet access for the server in Australia in the first 3 1/2 years we were over here – along with how much djeli owes me for his part (which basically wipes out what I owe him over there, so it looks like I get to keep my tax refund – YAY!). Quietly satisfying
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Now if that doesn’t free up the creative impulses, I don’t know what will! Sent off the signed documents authorising the go-ahead for my Australian income tax returns for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, then went on to complete the data input and report generation for 2009, which I then sent to my accountant. Mmmm… warm, fuzzy feeling!
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