Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit. Push down stack overflow. Not really.

I like to start each month with the childhood invocation of good luck, Rabbit, Rabbit. There are many variations on this, and I'm not sure it has really brought me any good luck, but it is a good opportunity to take a monthly look at how things are going.

Right now, I feel like I'm approaching a push down stack overflow. That is an old computer term that might best be understood thinking back to school cafeterias. Do you remember those carts that the dishes came in? They were stainless steel, three feet tall and had those small industrial wheels that made them difficult to move around, but would withstand anything. Some had open sides, so you could easily grab a dish. Others had springs so that the top dish would always be near the top. With these, if you put more dishes in it, it would push down, keeping things level, until it was full. Anything more than that would result in the dishes towering about the cart. It would be unstable and prone towards accidents.

Computers use push down stacks as well. Sometimes they are spoken about in terms of LIFO, Last In, First Out. Yet these stacks also have a limit, and at some point, they overflow. Instead of dishes crashing to the floor, this results in the computer program crashing.

Well, it feels like I've got so much on my plate, that I'm approaching a push down stack overflow. I haven't been able to keep up with my emails. There are thousands of unread emails I need to get to. There are many articles online I need to read. I have more article ideas than I have time for, and I also want to work on articles strictly to increase my writing skills. Next month is National Novel Writing Month, and I have a great idea, but I just don't know if I'll have time to execute it.

Now that I'm trying to do a little ebook reading, that is in my queue as well. Beyond that, we have a puppy at the house that needs more attention. There are the dishes and clothes that need cleaning. Underlying all of this are financial concerns. I need to be hustling to get more billable hours which takes precedence over these other things. Meanwhile, I'm doing too much pro bono work. PodcampCT is coming up and that is taking a lot of my energy. I'm doing what I can to increase civic engagement in politics and local news.

Yeah, the first of each month is a good time to wish for luck and take a look at things going on. I hope that some good luck will come this month in terms of projects falling into place, taking less time, but bringing more billable hours. Hopefully, you'll have a good month too.