Random Mental Bytes

Lovely day, warm, sunny, and I had to stay in waiting for maintenance man to check the frizzled outlet. Turns out the power is fine, but the outlet likely wore out, so he and the super replaced it. And while I was waiting for them to come, I started cleaning stuff out, and was boiling eggs for egg salad, and it's too late to go anywhere, so I'm still cleaning out stuff. Need to wait on hubby for the bulk of it because I can't toss any of his stuff without his okay and I've weeded my stuff pretty heavily. What's left would require much lifting and hauling, and I don't have time or energy for that now.

This was in today's Quotes of the Day on my personalized Google Page:

A poem is no place for an idea.
- Edgar Watson Howe

That really sums up my thinking about poetry, I think.

Installed the older version of Photoshop on the laptop to make it easier to at least crop and adjust exposure of photos for photoblogging. PS 7 doesn't have the nice filters PS CS2 has, but this will do in a pinch. Laptop is just weird, but it does some things the PC wouldn't. Just... weird. And there are things it won't do that the PC does, or rather, did. Now if I can only get the My Pictures folder backed up from the PC, I'd be really happy. I do that every few months because burning CDs is a pain and I didn't have a big enough stick for it all then. I do now, but without a monitor, it's hard to access a working hard drive, at least, that I know of.

Still feel tired, but better than when I woke up. Seems to take me 3 hours now to wake up. Minimum.

Discarding books would go faster if I didn't stop and skim them to decide what goes and what stays, then get sidetracked by one of them for almost an hour.

Anyway, back to do some more decluttering.

Feeling:

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Decluttering

Been decluttering. It's a bit odd calling it that when I keep adding things, but if things go well, the added things will take up less room than the weeded things. Put a few things up on eBay, tossed others. If the eBay items don't sell, I'll probably toss them, too. I need them out of here.

Right now, though, things look almost worse in spots than before I started cleaning because I have stuff to eBay piled up. And books, mags, and comics to read. And a stack of photos still to scan and put on CD.

Still have hundreds of VHS and Beta tapes to sort through. I wish I could replace more of them with DVDs than is possible. So many of the tapes I have are of shows that haven't been done on DVD and probably never will be. I want to weed a lot of reference books, too, now that I can look a lot of stuff up online.

The only problem with all this is that it takes time, more than I'll have come tomorrow when I have to get back to work. I'm trying to not think too much about what my desk there looks like. And I'm figuring over 500 emails to sort through. And I want to get back to writing, too, but it's really hard to concentrate on anything when the den is overflowing with junk.

And I never thought I'd call anything I owned "junk." Must be a sign of getting older. *sigh*

Feeling:

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