Making Progress

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
-- Thomas Carlyle

Monday, September 13, 1999
One year ago: Yard Sale and Butterflies

In my quest to make this apartment livable (for a weekend) for four women instead of one by this Friday (I'm hosting for the Lindy Exchange), I stopped at the storage place on the way home from work and bought book cartons, a tape gun, and tape. The woman working there threw in the tape for free, which was a good move for customer satisfaction!

I bought fifteen cartons, but only brought in three tonight. I packed them with books, after struggling with the fancy tape gun. I should have made that woman show me how to work it; it wasn't obvious to me which way the tape should go! The books are presently in medium-sized plastic trash bags in the dining room and living room, because I've already been through a round of sorting on them when I was doing a bedroom clear-out several weeks ago and didn't have boxes for them then. They are the books that were keepers among those books that had previously been on my bedroom floor.

A purge of the full bookshelves in my bedroom, at a later date, will make room for most of them, I think. But I know I won't do that before my deadline, so boxed books, rather than bagged, will be easier to stack and shift.

After I filled my three cartons, I grabbed a few boxes of papers and detritus and sorted them, throwing away good chunks -- old bills that are now paid, empty envelopes, nasty dried-out rubber stamps that I never did like. But I kept some old photos from the eighties, and a job evaluation from the job I had then; I always was pleased by the praise that manager gave me in my menial job.

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Al of Nova Notes got turned on to weblogs in tonight's entry. I do think that there's a continuum between strict link lists with no comment, and journals that are all comment and personal stuff. You could do a chart and place various blogs along it. My pitas page would be mostly links, with just a few words from me about each one; Lemonyellow has a few links interspersed among the enigmatic ruminations. There are people using the pitas format for their personal journals now.

I'm enjoying the whole thing!