House In Order, day 22

[cjsmith]

Took a page from kateyule's book and cleaned out all the clutter that had accumulated in my car. I even threw some of it away. Also did laundry and scrubbed a cake pan to within an inch of its life.

Turns out I was somewhat productive at work today, too, which is a breath of fresh air. I've been on a project where my main responsibility has been "wait for someone to finish [foo] and then make sure it works on our system". VERY high priority, VERY high pressure ("work weekends"), VERY impossible to speed up (all I do is the waiting part). Awful. So I took some "time off" and fixed a few bugs.

Also an errand earlier today: buy a long phone handset cord for the office. Installed it, too, and boy was THAT ever harder than it needed to be. Stoopid phone design.

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Ever since College Experience #1[TM], I've tried not to live out of a car. The Baja currently has a Kleenex box, snow brush/scraper, and three sizeable CD holders strewn about, but I can live with that.

Now, once I start going to Purdue, we'll see how long that lasts. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's pretty good. Mine has Kleenex, maps, and a swim bag. In the trunk... we won't talk about the trunk. :-) I can live with it for now. Earlier it had a lot of things I would need for various errands (for example, my eyeglass prescription) and I think I'd rather get that stuff put away.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah - maps. I have several of those, but they're neatly stuffed into little pockets on the doors. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I have a few of those, and then there's the Big Honkin' Book covering the Bay Area. I got a new edition of Big Honkin' Book lately and they changed the format so it's too big to fit into those pockets on the doors. (Also too big for a glove compartment. What exactly are they *thinking*?) So it takes up a seat. Oh Well.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I have an edition of that Big Honkin' Book. Fortunately, I only need it when I'm out there. Indy has a book but a) it isn't quite as honkin' big and b) I know most of the streets around here and don't need maps often locally. They do offer that thing on CD-ROM, and, while it takes up less car space, the utility while driving is a bit limited. :-)

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Funny, I find my car cleaner than my condo. I have stuff in it, but most of it is useful (remember I have a small child, I need to bring toys and snacks). Getting a new car (at least to me) helps.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Cool! The stuff I have in there now is useful most of the time (Kleenex, maps, swim bag). What I also had in there yesterday was for errands, and I obviously haven't done them, so I'd rather have a cleaner car for a while!