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I’ve yet to find the most effective way to utilize my spare time. So much of my brain is eroded by my workday but I’m trying to read more in the evenings. Plus, any energy I have left is sapped by a zooming toddler – which is, for the record, awesome and often hilarious but leaves me unlikely to do anything but read after she goes to bed. The result of all this is that I feel like I accomplish very little in my Chosen Areas of Hobbying.
Thanks to certain friends this summer, Sunday afternoons have turned into planning for world domination/craft day and it is continuing post-Pennsic. HURRAY! In order not to squander my time, I’ve made a list of the things I’ve wanted to get done for a while. For fun, I broke them into categories: Knitting & Spinning, Sewing, Glass, Gardening, Writing.
Just by the fact that I have 5 categories should tell you a little about the unsurmountability of my list. Oh, and there are sub-lists under the categories, but we’re not going to talk about those right now. Perhaps ever. Yes, never ever would be just fine.
And this list does not include desperately necessary ventures like organizing my office or craft room. Or cleaning out my closet or going through all my clothes, which I’ve needed to do for years because, quite frankly, I haven’t done any culling since before I was pregnant in 2011 and I’m not only not the same size or shape but my tastes, needs and desires have changed. And WHY THE HECK DO I NEED 5 DIFFERENT BLACK BLAZERS? I work FROM HOME. I haven’t spent 5 days straight in an office in (let me check my resume) SEVEN YEARS. Holy crap.
But, hey, at least I’ve unpacked all the boxes… except that 1 half-full bin that I probably mostly need to cull but it’s things I’m attached to so I’m totally procrastinating that. Fine, so maybe I should have a “Tedious Chores That Must Be Completed” category. But it’s my list and I’m going to refuse to add that one.
However, there are some delightfully destructive things on the list like cutting back the Wicked Wisteria and burning the brush pile. The writing list ranges all over. The glass category is sparse. I’d really just like to do some torch work more than once a year. Sewing is a big list and should be full of fun.
In short, in an attempt to organize myself, I’ve made a crazy to-do list of DOOM. But it’s my crazy to-do list of DOOM and I love it.
I just unloaded my camera’s storage card for the first time in over a month. I didn’t take the big camera on vacation because I barely used it last year and anticipated not wanting to haul it around this year either. There’s a big gap in the photos: none were taken between 7/16 and 8/20. My camera got more than a month off. Terrifying.
Yes, I did still take plenty of photos on my iPhone, but this does signify the demise of my photography focus, at least for the summer. Alas and all that, but I’m not going to beat myself up over it.
Productivity has been weird since I got back from Pennsic. I’m super productive in the morning but my afternoons seem to languish and run on forever. I’m unimpressed. I suspect the major problem this week is a maelstrom of allergies and weather changes. I do wonder how much of it is that Pennsic was so much earlier this year that my internal clock, which has been doing Pennsic later 19 other years, is completely confused. At any rate, I’m taking a different approach (and zyrtec) this week and things seem to be a little better.
What certainly didn’t help was BEAUTIFUL weather when we got back. It was gorgeous. Cool. Autumnal. The heat is back this week though and it’s summer again. I was lulled into thinking we might really get a Fall, like we kind of got a Spring, this year. I was tricked into thinking it was here. I feel betrayed, once again, by the weather. You’d think I’d learn, but no… I fall for its little tricks every time. False Fall, you bastard.
Despite all this, I have high hopes for snow this winter. I’m a doomed optimist.
Finally, it is with sadness that I start to look in earnest for a replacement for Flickr. I’ll enumerate the issues in more detail separately, but it boils down to the changes to the layouts, the changes to paid plans, and, finally and fatally, issues with upload tools slowing the process. My account expires in late December.
I really like the community aspect of Flickr, even if it has gotten a bitter edge of late (due to the above-mentioned changes). But, while trendy and pretty, the new design removed several key previously-at-a-glance data points. However, I also have over 3,400 photos up there, so should any one of the problems improve, I’ll probably try to soldier on…
I’ve been a member since August 2006, not that this means anything to Yahoo. Le sigh.
Please let me know if you have a photo site you like or even love! I could easily run Gallery, but I like the social aspect of Flickr.
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