everything is taking three days longer than i expect it to currently

[dubdobdee]

but i kind of have a month now to work on myself, my flat and several much-postponed non-paying project

i'm even only an hour away from finishing my accounts!!

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

TO CELEBRATE I HAVE JUST SPENT 90 MINS FILING OR DELETING EMAILS INSTEAD

Area Man Lives Three Days Longer Than Anticipated

[koganbot]

Perhaps global warming and death will take three days longer than I expect it to as well.

Re: Area Man Lives Three Days Longer Than Anticipated

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha well my "only an hour" for my accounts turned out to be nonsense as all -- it took me all afternoon because i couldn't find some receipts, and had to tidy two rooms in the search

(i did find them: they were "filed" under a pile of blankets under the piano)

Re: Area Man Lives Three Days Longer Than Anticipated

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

anyway i can at last now* get down to reading various things you sent me

*ie on monday

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

While looking for my passport the other day - it took an hour - I fell head-first into my wardrobe :(

I've basically abandoned any hope of ever being organised: I felt like I was nearly on top of things last week. And then my five-month-old hard drive died. THANKS FOR THAT, APPLE! God, I hate computers (and computer people).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

well i have these life-attacking tidies and reorgandises every five or so years -- and keep on top of stuff for [xx] months; basically until something traumatic occurs and i treat myself to a break from discipline

my actual real baked-in habits are

i: never throw ANYTHING way unless it can actually go bad or has become literally illegible -- i still have phonebills older than you, lex
ii: commit everything to memory

both of these have distinct drawbacks -- yes my memory is like a steel trap which nothing escapes; unfortunately NOTHING escapes it -- the only thing i have learned to braindump is the total contents of any magazine i've been subbing :: couldn't tell you what was on the most recent cover of crafts, even

and if you never throw anything away, you WILL find it -- but archiving helpfully is an ongoing nightmare

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

go bad includes "eaten by moths" -- i do actually seem to have conquered the moth problem

old dry newspaper creates huge amounts of housedust