Friday report

[adair]

It's been a mixed week. I moved more books on; my January-February total was 66, and I took 6 to B2P yesterday, so I am at 72 - not bad. None of this shows, of course, but I know it happened.

I bought some new storage containers for the kitchen cupboard where I keep a lot of dry foods. I added 6 and took out 4. I replaced some varied containers (and two plastic bags) with carefully chosen OXO Good Grips POP containers. They stack, are not round, and I picked those that just held what I needed to store, like a bag of lentils and one of yellow split peas. Perfect! I am planning the others I will buy to hold flour (I don't keep much), soy flour, bran and xanthan gum for low-carb baking. The old containers are going to the garage to hold various nails and screws and drill bits.

I've been cleaning up files stored on my iPad as pdfs and moving them to my computer. This requires emailing them so I can then save the pdf to my download file to sort, and then delete the one in iBooks on the iPad. It's a little fussy, but I do not want to sync everything to the computer, and I have been unable to find a way to drag-and-drop. I bought iMazing, which is supposed to let me do that, but it did not work for me, and the help people at iMazing could not figure out what is going on. I am using iOS 10, and am leery about upgrading the iPad to 11 for a number of reasons, but I may consider that if it would let that major feature of iMazing work for me.

I am packing two boxes of books to haul to a garage across town to await a 3Rs book pickup from prison librarians. These do not count as books removed from the house unless the actually came from my shelves. I do a lot of book gathering for 3Rs throughout the year; they take up space, but are not my books for me to read. The only book in the box that counts now is The Limousine Liberal I bought last year. It is leaving for the edification of people who cannot yet vote.

Comments

[tanaqui]

Well done on continuing to make steady progress on the books -- and hooray for new and better kitchen storage. (Sometimes new storage is the answer.) And good work on tackling the digital clutter, even if it sounds a little frustrating.

I was thinking I hadn't done any more uncluttering since I last checked in, but then I realized I'd finished watching another recorded TV show from my backlog and read a couple of magazines.

[adair]

Thanks. Having numbers to track, rather than just trying to let go of books helps. Posting here does, too. I think that's a major value of unclutter for me; we all talk to each other. And that keeps us doing things we commit ourselves too, even it it does not seem like much. It's all about progress.

[fred_mouse]

Good job on finding more books to pass on!

And I hear you on the tediousness of sorting out files. I have a particular grouping of files scattered across multiple computers, logins, and storage media, and I have kind of given up reconciling them.

[adair]

Thanks. Files, fanfic, saved digital newspaper articles - they are everywhere, but I have to get some off my iPan before it clogs up. Forced organization, and forces thinking about whether I will every want to look at these again; it's all hard You have made a sensible decision to not try to reconcile everything.