Notepad, worklog, tasks, etc.

for /f  “delims=@” %i in (’dir /b /o:n’) do copy “%i” new_dir\

Very rough cmd line and I do not know the right output file extension, but the output can be played by mplayer, which is all I need

mencoder dvd://3 -alang en -dvd-device e: -o c:\dvd\3.avi -oac faac -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1200

It seems a little late for making new year plan until late February. Anyway, better late than never. I have been struggling to find my goal for a quite long time. I thought I was just like a moving body without a soul. That lets my life lack of colors. I became unhappy. I was not interested in anything. Xudong was worried about me, and he wants me happy. He didn’t push my anything. He just waited for me at my step. I know the only person who can help me is myself, but I need Xudong’s help. After talking with him last night, I made my 2008 plan. The most important is I need to execute the plan. So I just made a small and simple plan. Here is my plan.

English:
1. Keep on the ESL class.
2. 5 100-word blogs per week.
3. Be a volunteer in the retirement center.

Family:
1. Bake a cake/dessert per week.
2. Make a Chinese dumpling per week.
3. Go shopping in the weekday and go outside in the weekend.
4. Play a game with Lele per week.
5. Call father every week.
6. Stay alone instead of yelling if I get angry.

Work:
1. Add/update 2 tv stations for OnlineTVtools.
2. Stop reading the news of wenxuecity.com and mitbbs.com.

Today when cleaning up my notepad, I saw the list of MS contacts during our relocation. I have to clean up the list to save space for my notepad, but it is interest to take a note here on how many contacts were behind our relocation: my future boss, my recruiter, someone from MS Onboarding Logistics, two legal contacts, two background check contacts, one relocation coordinator, three contacts from transportation company, one from a Portuguese relocation company, one Portuguese tax consultant, two destination consultants. That’s a total of fifteen! During that time, I had to setup this list to manage who was asking for what on when, to whom I sent what on when, etc …