I think I need to get more deliberate about putting tasks on the to-do list and then tackling them. Today I deleted the one task that had been sitting in Things forever (“Essay” … who knows exactly what I meant, besides write one at some point) and added two tasks:
- Clean the bathrooms
- Organize camping gear
The camping gear task will probably take multiple sessions, but I should be able to clean the bathrooms in one go.
Read more of Imperial San Francisco this morning. Reminded me that it was one of the first books that woke me up to how different 19th and early 20th century American thinking was than I had thought before, specifically the rapacious consumption of natural resources (not a big surprise, but still …) and the racist imperialism (very surprised, didn’t really understand Manifest Destiny thinking before this).
Bathrooms are clean! Or at least more presentable. The tub has a layer of grime that is possibly permanent or at least resistant enough to my scrubbing that I’m ready to leave it there. But there was more on top of that, and I did get that off. 2nd floor toilet and sink now look pretty nice. 1st floor sink had been cleaned recently, looks pretty good. 1st floor toilet has some serious stains I wasn’t able to get completely off, but still much improved. Will check that task off. Need to do a more general cleaning (floors, baseboards) but that will wait on future inspiration.
Looking for a book page layout, meaning something I can use to dedicate a page to a book “review” … image, book info, review text. Probably should just create my own, based on a Tailwind UI product page.
Oops, just saw that I didn’t change the filename to the next date when I edited yesterday’s entry title, slug, and pubDateTime and then saved to make today’s entry. So I saved a copy under today’s date, then used ‘git checkout’ to restore yesterday’s entry (which fortunately I had committed last night).
Finished Lost Highway. Yikes, what a film! And easier to follow after having read the book about it. Took a brief nap. Now I need to spend a little time starting on camp gear organization, before this afternoon’s rowing session, in hopes that it gets me off the dime.
Doing a bit of camp gear organization before rowing was enough to get me started. Mostly I moved smaller things to two piles on top of C’s freezer which need to be sorted through, stuff that goes in cold storage and supplies I want to take — hopefully the latter will fit into a small tote, but even a large one will be OK since I’ll have more room in the back seat without the telescope and mount taking up room. After supper I went back and did some initial sorting, plus other prep — starting the block ice, grabbing six eggs for the holder. I think my meals will be four burgers, two bratwurst, two omelets. Lunches will probably be tuna, oil, olives, pickle, nuts … though I’m going to try cottage cheese again before I leave, and if that suddenly tastes good I might do that for some lunches.
Watched MI: Rogue Nation. Would have started with Ghost Protocol but the Plex version is only SD (DVD quality) and it isn’t on a streaming service I subscribe to. Those afterward are on Prime, and in 4k, so that’s nice. Very enjoyable.