It's good to have a goal

Well, I made a schedule. I doubt it's realistic but it keeps me moving. In fact, I took an example from the day job and signed up for a free account with Basecamp. It's an online project management system that lets me track to do lists and milestones for my project, and it emails me 48 hours before a milestone is due. Pretty cool huh. I set up all my to do lists and milestones today and now that it's all written down somewhere and saved, I feel like I have a better handle on it. Even if it's crazy. For example, I'm trying to get this all done by the end of May, despite the fact that I'm lucky if I have 3 hours in an evening to work. I'm putting a lot of pressure on my weekends and I'm even trying to take Friday nights off, but I have a feeling I'll be playing catch up on those nights. At least I probably will in the beginning when I'm trying to get the hang of Maya again. But I had to schedule a night where I could pay bills and do dishes and clean the litter box. Otherwise none of this matters. The cat and the creditors will come after me.

So now that I have an idea of how ridiculously hard I have to work to make my end of May deadline, I made some actual progress tonight. I sat in various painful positions on my bathroom floor drawing sketches I can use to start modeling in Maya. I didn't do details like lights or faucets but I have three pages of the larger objects, which is enough to get me started. They're posted in the slide show on the bathroom page.

Tomorrow I actually start using some software. Actually, that would be today. Yikes.