I’ve spent a lot of time over the past ten years cleaning out my attic. The plan has been to turn it into an office where I can put my vast quantity of files and books for easy retrieval. It was only last year that I finally wore down my better half who has always planned to throw everything of mine away. Well, this is the attic as it was just before the project began. Note, I still had a huge stack of stuff in the center that I had no room to take to the rest of the house. The contractors have had to shuffle it around to blow in insulation and hang sheetrock.
The work is going very fast and I’m looking forward to having it ready to paint in a week or two. Organizing it will take a month or more.
My blogging sometimes suffers from other preoccupations. Yesterday I couldn’t get past a growing pile in my claustrophobic current office. I did start the day by ironing eight or nine shirts while watching the fifth episode of HBO’s Newsroom. And when the contractors cleared out I spent two hours vacuuming the house. Its the least I can do since I’ve inflicted the mess on my reluctant spouse. In between I just couldn’t get worked up to post any blog material. As for the weekend…..that was reserved for my family. I took my grandson’s hiking in Oregon Creek. They both looked good in burrs but didn’t like having me remove them. I feel the same way about my school board.
I woke up today at 2:30 with the free press on my mind. After a couple hours of tossing and turning I gave in and wrote a 1600 word post on the subject just to get it out of my head. I’m unresolved whether to edit it and stick it in the blog. I never did find the energy or time to edit the two posts I promised to improve upon from last week. I spent the time vacuuming instead.
