I spent most of my Sunday working.  I had an idea in the morning.  I wanted to understand "tagging" and the benefits.  If you’ve ever used flickr, del.icio.us, or a number of other social networking sites, then you’ve probably seen tags.  I’m embarrassed to say, that I’ve known about them for quite a while, but I have never bothered to explore the benefits of using them.

With only a minimal investigation (I read about it briefly at wikipedia), I decided to start scripting away.  The exact words that went through my head were something like, "If it works for them, it should work for Music Forte".

Many hours later, I had written a script from scratch that I thought did the job.  I looked at the finished draft of my work, and then thought to myself, "This is worthless".

I walked away from the computer and went straight to the piano.  I started playing about 5 of my favorite songs half-way through; and then it hit me.  "That" was my character. I was the kind of guy that started things and never finished them.  It wasn’t because I couldn’t complete a task.  By all means, if somebody was relying on me to do complete something, I would do my very best to complete it.

But learning new songs, scripting at the computer, and even reading books (recently) has not been completed.   I’ve stopped playing the piano before reaching the bridge of my favorite tunes.   I’ve  walked away from hours of hard work at the computer.  And I’ve probably missed out on brilliant plot twists and some good old education from the books in my closet.

For that reason, I went back to my computer and started finishing (nice oxymoron) the project I had begun that morning.

To my surprise, I had a renewed enthusiasm towards the project.  Once I started implementing the script into the site, I became a creative thinker again.  Somewhere in those last laps, I got my second wind.  And instead of feeling like I wasted my entire Sunday, I felt like I accomplished something.

Note to self:
1. Finish reading "State of Fear".
2. Play the entire songs, damn it!

It’s early Monday morning now.  When you see those new "tag" areas on the Music Forte site, they are there because I decided to finish what I started.  They may be useless.  But who knows?  I might discover some incredible potential with that script at a later time.  Either way, I’ll go to sleep content with what I completed and I’ve mustered up some motivation to push me through the next project I tackle.