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Dec. 26th, 2005 08:54 pmAll in all, Christmas went well. I didn't get a whole lot, but didn't spend much, and didn't waste much time buying gifts for other people, and by throwing the rest of my family an actual clue, I didn't waste their time either. It's like this: Christmas is NOT about spending close to $2000 so your kid can have an XBox 360, and it's NOT about risking foreclosure/bankruptcy so that all 200 friends and family have really nice gifts, or at least remain unforgotten. Most of my shopping happened in a couple determined pushes, while a lot of time that was actually spent at a mall was purely goofing off, in sheer defiance of the mind-control that is the Christmas Shopping Season, an entity in itself. I don't think it was supposed to evolve into this, but it has.
Anyway, I got some manga, a Mad reader, a set of DangerMouse DVDs, Burnout 3 for Playstation2, a couple pair of pants, money, gift cards, that sort of thing. Meanwhile,
aichan95 got an add-on for her stereo and a new AC compressor, while
yamikochan got a new set of tires. Oh, what I don't do for them.
Hopefully I'll be able to make better use of my week off with more much-needed cleaning, including disassembly of my waterbed, structural assessment (including figuring out why when I sit on my waterbed with the heater plugged in, there's a small but noticeable trickle of electricity that passes through when I touch my newer PowerBook), transport, and re-assembly. That's probably going to be the biggest thing, not to mention filling it back up. Eh, I'll figure something out. The rest of the place is being cleaned in my typical ADD style, which is as follows:
Step 1: Start at a known trouble spot, and sort stuff into What Stays and What Goes.
Step 2: Find something that I had been looking for.
Step 3: Implement found item.
Step 4: Wait, we're up to 4 already?
Step 5: Start working on another spot.
Repeat Steps 2-5, until a Random Event occurs. On Random Event, Continue.
Step 6: Get hungry, and prepare food.
Step 7: While digesting the meal, take a nap.
Step 8: Wake up much later than expected.
Step 9: Same as Step 4.
Step 10: Hi-mi-tsu! <3 ^_~
Step 11: Watch some anime.
Step 12: Go back to cleaning, except in an entirely different area than before.
Step 13: Wonder why after all this cleaning, the place still looks like the physical embodiment of madness.
Step 14: Give up for the night, and go to bed.
Repeat entire process the next day.
Now, one would think by that logic and method, that I would eventually get to the bottom of the whole mess, and eventually wipe it out once and for all. Nope, it's not that easy. Because, these spurts of cleaning don't really happen often enough to be effective. Maybe this week will be different.
As usual, I close this particular entry knowing that there was something else I wanted to add but slipped my mind, but closing it anyway so it doesn't get too long.
Anyway, I got some manga, a Mad reader, a set of DangerMouse DVDs, Burnout 3 for Playstation2, a couple pair of pants, money, gift cards, that sort of thing. Meanwhile,
Hopefully I'll be able to make better use of my week off with more much-needed cleaning, including disassembly of my waterbed, structural assessment (including figuring out why when I sit on my waterbed with the heater plugged in, there's a small but noticeable trickle of electricity that passes through when I touch my newer PowerBook), transport, and re-assembly. That's probably going to be the biggest thing, not to mention filling it back up. Eh, I'll figure something out. The rest of the place is being cleaned in my typical ADD style, which is as follows:
Step 1: Start at a known trouble spot, and sort stuff into What Stays and What Goes.
Step 2: Find something that I had been looking for.
Step 3: Implement found item.
Step 4: Wait, we're up to 4 already?
Step 5: Start working on another spot.
Repeat Steps 2-5, until a Random Event occurs. On Random Event, Continue.
Step 6: Get hungry, and prepare food.
Step 7: While digesting the meal, take a nap.
Step 8: Wake up much later than expected.
Step 9: Same as Step 4.
Step 10: Hi-mi-tsu! <3 ^_~
Step 11: Watch some anime.
Step 12: Go back to cleaning, except in an entirely different area than before.
Step 13: Wonder why after all this cleaning, the place still looks like the physical embodiment of madness.
Step 14: Give up for the night, and go to bed.
Repeat entire process the next day.
Now, one would think by that logic and method, that I would eventually get to the bottom of the whole mess, and eventually wipe it out once and for all. Nope, it's not that easy. Because, these spurts of cleaning don't really happen often enough to be effective. Maybe this week will be different.
As usual, I close this particular entry knowing that there was something else I wanted to add but slipped my mind, but closing it anyway so it doesn't get too long.