When it Rains

I'm not going to talk about what you probably think I'm going to talk about.

I wonder if anyone else is like this: but when I get on a roll, it incites a huge desire to take on more projects and tasks than I can possibly handle.  For the past couple weeks I've been at a new consultant programming position (in-house) and also managed to continue making bug fixes and thinking of new ideas for FanSiter.  In addition, I started a conversation with a friend (and currently a temporary co-worker) about the deficits of CAPTCHA and what is next.  On top of even that I was approached about helping some guys put together a small ecommerce website for their product.  And even beyond that I want to learn 3D, write a game demo, make videos, and now build a PC for no particular reason.  That is, I have no need for another PC, it just suddenly kinda sounds like fun.

When success is on, maybe everything feels like it turns to gold at your touch, does it cause you to in turn become overambitious and wreck it all?

I certainly suspect this probability and have been taking small steps to prevent it: I dive fully into my contracted work while I'm there; afterwards I give myself up to 3 tasks to do for FanSiter (or related: programming, administrative, etc.); and I am trying to keep these other projects on the level of conversation and/or nudges in the right direction rather than work on my part.  And for the others, I let myself daydream and write the results down in my Moleskine.  Having it scrawled somewhere makes it feel "sorta done" and is mildly satiating.