Rightshifting

Hi. Andrew here.

Today I sit typing on my 'day not at my normal job.' My midweek weekend. For multitudinous reasons I've switched my job to parttime. I think the normal term is Downshifting. However I don't like that term. I still intend to be doing stuff, probably more stuff, but most importantly stuff that really matters to me.

Exactly what that will entail I really don't know. :)

Today I have no plans, just taking it easy. I held off not going into work with a bloody annoying cold and cough earlier this week as I knew today was coming. So in part I'm just being warm. I'm also just wandering around doing stuff as I see it and making vague plans for future ... whatever I end up refering to this day as. It will be a 'work day' but focusing much more purely on stuff this blog is about, home and sustainability.

So far I've:

• Eaten breakfast in the sun.
• Carried dog poop and other black compost down to the spoil line below the orchard.
• Loaded the main worm farm with compost.
• Tried to figure why my windows ext2 driver has stopped working.
• Cleaned up some dead flies. Why have all the flies started so early this year?
• Randomly cleaned and put things away in their right places.
• Installed my main music software. (computer has new Harddrive so 'moving house')

On my todo list:

• Remind myself to meditate
• Install drum software
• Fix multiboot loader
• Find all old music projects and place in one spot
• Find all music and place in one spot after various recent shatterings of my library
• Organise the bookshelves
• Organise the CD/DVDs
• Organise my computer desk
• Clean the shed. That's a mess.
• Get some wood and nails from the mess in the shed and make tool hanging places
• Make a new worm farm
• Put up wallaby guard minifences for the orchard trees
• Put bird netting over the fish pool
• Do the path edges
• Clean where the greenhouse will be
• Make a hexayurt
• Make cob oven
• Rebuild main garden bed taller for Bel and with less spots for snails to hide
• Not let myself make my goals too big. Lots of very small, simple tasks
• Find out what Belinda needs from the interwebs and make it happen
• Talk the interwebs into making some residual income
• Restore some backup files
• Keep in contact with friends. eg mail cehbab.
• Spend some serious time figuring who I actually want to be
• Name this day. Working for the Future day?

oh and neat article.