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Slow Progress is the Order of the Day
Jan. 8th, 2019 11:55 amGot rid of some more random stuff (digital projector, Wacom tablet) and I'll get rid of my box of lighting supplies when friends get back from Seattle.
Had the last (?) big load of garbage get picked up this morning. From here on out, I'm not sure we *have* that much to throw away again.
The house is cleaned up, staged, and we're basically practiced in living lightly and clearing away everything so that people can see it. Give us a half-hour and we're out of the kitchen and the bathroom... And we're already out of everywhere else anyway. Except the garage. The garage is the last remaining place we live in the house. And it's still kept pretty cleaned up by our standards.
Had several visits for people to see the house. No offers yet, but it's also day two of having it on the market. It's shaping up to be an active first week for visits, which is about what we can hope for.
Getting down to the last things on a tight schedule. We've already moved nearly everything to storage that we can live without. We're slowly clearing out odds and ends, food-wise. We're getting down to the total amount of stuff in the house that we could pack into suitcases and just leave with. It helps that most of the rooms are staged and empty of everything of ours -- in effect, they're off-limits to us. The garage keeps getting crowded as we sort something, then feeling empty as we throw some of it away and pack the rest. Cycles.
I've been more serious this year about living out of the organization program (OmniFocus, in my case.) It's easier as the quantity of physical tasks gets smaller - what's left is online, information and/or organizational tasks. As our stuff gets packed away into suitcases, my computer life gets packed away into Dropbox.
I'm also getting more serious about putting my online presence into a media calendar. My (professional) blog posts go into SquareSpace on a publication schedule, with Buffer set up to tweet on my personal account when they come out. I have about a month of buffer now, and I hope to increase that significantly. With all the travel this year, it would be convenient to be able to be offline and just let it autopilot, then binge on updating when I have access again. A lot of what I do is pretty offline-friendly and/or amenable to low bandwidth updates.
I'm having one of those times with a lot of inspiration, which is nice. And I'm using it to build systems, which is what I should be doing. I often feel the isolation of doing this stuff without a peer group. But that seems to be how it works when you're very accomplished, at least in my field. Not sure how I feel about it, but I seem to be good at it. And that's enough to keep me going for at least another few years here. After that, we'll see.
Had the last (?) big load of garbage get picked up this morning. From here on out, I'm not sure we *have* that much to throw away again.
The house is cleaned up, staged, and we're basically practiced in living lightly and clearing away everything so that people can see it. Give us a half-hour and we're out of the kitchen and the bathroom... And we're already out of everywhere else anyway. Except the garage. The garage is the last remaining place we live in the house. And it's still kept pretty cleaned up by our standards.
Had several visits for people to see the house. No offers yet, but it's also day two of having it on the market. It's shaping up to be an active first week for visits, which is about what we can hope for.
Getting down to the last things on a tight schedule. We've already moved nearly everything to storage that we can live without. We're slowly clearing out odds and ends, food-wise. We're getting down to the total amount of stuff in the house that we could pack into suitcases and just leave with. It helps that most of the rooms are staged and empty of everything of ours -- in effect, they're off-limits to us. The garage keeps getting crowded as we sort something, then feeling empty as we throw some of it away and pack the rest. Cycles.
I've been more serious this year about living out of the organization program (OmniFocus, in my case.) It's easier as the quantity of physical tasks gets smaller - what's left is online, information and/or organizational tasks. As our stuff gets packed away into suitcases, my computer life gets packed away into Dropbox.
I'm also getting more serious about putting my online presence into a media calendar. My (professional) blog posts go into SquareSpace on a publication schedule, with Buffer set up to tweet on my personal account when they come out. I have about a month of buffer now, and I hope to increase that significantly. With all the travel this year, it would be convenient to be able to be offline and just let it autopilot, then binge on updating when I have access again. A lot of what I do is pretty offline-friendly and/or amenable to low bandwidth updates.
I'm having one of those times with a lot of inspiration, which is nice. And I'm using it to build systems, which is what I should be doing. I often feel the isolation of doing this stuff without a peer group. But that seems to be how it works when you're very accomplished, at least in my field. Not sure how I feel about it, but I seem to be good at it. And that's enough to keep me going for at least another few years here. After that, we'll see.
