COLT again...

[vakkotaur]

Last April I wrote how I seem to fall behind in COLT stuff every summer. There were a couple entries about it, such as this one. One other thing came to mind recently as I resumed the effort (at least I've resumed in late November & December rather than April this time) as not helping: The lack of any actual schedule other than "Try to keep up and it'd be nice to finish things." So now I have a schedule.

First, here's what's missing:

Year  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1995  ---  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20 ===

2000  --- --- --- --- --- --- ---  67  68  69  70  71
2001  ---  73  74  75  76  77  78  79  80  81  82  83
2002  --- ---  86  87  88  89  90  91  92  93  94  95
2003   96 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 104 105 106 107
2004  --- 109

There was no issue for December 1995, and the February 2004 issue is out now, and I am already working on it. In the past couple weeks I took care of 97, 104, and 108, so I feel like I'm getting some stuff done. And having this chart helps to measure progress.

And the actual schedule itself:

2004
Jan: 109 104  96
Feb: 110 105  95 (2002 resumed)
Mar: 111 106  94
Apr: 112 107  93 (2003 finished)
May: 113  67  92 (2000 resumed)
Jun: 114  68  91
Jul: 115  69  90
Aug: 116  70  89
Sep: 117  71  88 (2000 finished)
Oct: 118  11  87 (1995 resumed)
Nov: 119  12  86
Dec: 120  13  83 (2001 resumed)

2005
Jan: 121  14  82
Feb: 122  15  81
Mar: 123  16  80
Apr: 124  17  79
May: 125  18  78
Jun: 126  19  77
Jul: 127  20  76 (1995 finished)
Aug: 128  75  73 
Sep: 129  74     (2001 finished)
Oct: 130
Nov: 131
Dec: 132

This assumes taking care of at least three issues a month, which is not too difficult, though like before sustaining things will be the trick, as will resuming after any break (like, say, going to Houston for a week for Christmas). I do like this schedule as it doesn't seem overly ambitious. I could probably do a bit more, but I know I'll need breaks here and there. It has a few milestones not all that far off, and will provide a bit of variety - doing a three or four February issues in a row would get tiresome fast. It's not perfect. Some years don't much attention for a while. But it is something, and as I'm taking care of 109 this week, I could take break for the rest of the year and not off schedule, but I think I'll be better off pressing on, if only a little bit. After all, this outline is a minimal thing. Getting done early would be nice, too.

It's a bit daunting to see this as a projection and that it will take nearly two years to get caught up. At least I can watch the progress and have the "year resumed" and "year finished" milestones.