Wednesday, 16 September 2009

The trouble with lists. Challenge update

Hey, Andrew again.
Sort of an annoying day as I had a list of stuff to do and while I feel like I got a lot done when I look at said list I did diddly squat from it. Oh well lets see what I have done...

Observing
  • Growth everywhere! Even plants I was worried were dead like one of the lemons and the blueberries have growth.
  • A few dead fish :-(
  • Paint on DIY stompboxes faded
  • Belinda isn't surrounded by a constant cloud of A3 paper and transparencies
Planning for The Future -
  • Read about natural pools. Trying to find what plants needed especially to scrub ammonia
  • Asked fishing types what sort of fish they recommend for pool. Told they'd get me some
  • Might need specific fish feeding worm farm
  • Must strip old CRT for solar oven
  • Solar oven could be used to bake on stompbox paint! Hmm maybe make another one for that. Paint fumes and food shouldn't mix
Working for the Future -
  • Extended new garden bed about 5 meters. That's it for this year for that bed.
  • Moved fermenty, sloppy mulch onto new bed
  • Washed stinky, fur shedding dogs
  • Collected various weed teas into the big tank
  • Dumped drowned weeds and other black compost on spoil line
  • Random weeding
  • Tested fish pool for ph and ammonia
  • Found a new amazingly painful spot to bash your elbow
  • Collecting bottles for worm tea
  • Being more focused on my fitness again. Min of 10 mins a day intense exercise
Building Community -
  • Sent mail to gauge interest in self defence classes
  • Joined facebook, made contact with good friends haven't been in contact with for years
  • Actually went out to nightclubby thing with people
Learn a new Skill -
  • Groovy programming language

4 comments:

Linda said...

I was thinking of joining Facebook too, but haven't yet.

maia said...

sounds like you got heaps done nonetheless.

what's a stompbox?

maia said...

re the lists issue - i find the master list invaluable for that sense of achievement. as long as i can cross it off some list, somewhere, even if just in my head, the day feels a bit better.

Aardvark Engineering said...

Hi Linda.
I don't get the point of what you do with facebook really. Having said that, it has also allowed me to get back in touch with good friends I'd lost contact with for over 5 years. So I guess it's done its job.

Hi Maia.
Yeah, a Master list would be good. Days list will be done by priority, whatever doesn't fit will still be on the master.
Happy got stuff done, just need to accept I won't always do it all in one day.

A stompbox is a guitar effects pedal. You step on it to turn it on and off. A metal box about 15cm long.

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