The Summit Electric sign on 4th South, Salt Lake City
I finished an important deadline-driven project yesterday, felt like the guy in the Bose commercial, blown back in my chair from the effort. So today I did one hundred little tasks, mostly readying my system for the Adobe Lightroom switch-over by transferring files to my back-up drive and extra DVD copies. I burned at least 15 DVDs today, maybe 20, all raw capture files.
Apple’s Time Machine cannot hit my doorstep soon enough. Or else it’s going to be a rack of swappable drives. I have been uncharacteristically hygienic about my file organization, and I can find stuff, but too many LaCies slow down the system, and I just filled another 500 GB unit. I’m going to try to hold out for the Time Machine by shifting some stuff around, but I need to be at the front of the line when Apple releases them to the world. Somehow, I don’t see an Apple store overnight party like the IPhone though. Or that the mad rush will take out Apple’s on-line store like happened when R ordered his MacBook Air on Tuesday.
As for my file system, I can find stuff, if I remember that it exists. My upcoming keywording project is looking like it will be time-consuming AND worth my time investment. I didn’t exactly forget that I shot this, but then I shot other stuff and then I moved on. Moving on isn’t forgetting, really.
In between burning 15-20 DVDs, you can clean the house; finish, hand wash and block a sweater; reorganize your bookshelves and the yarn you bought at Christmas and on Monday; wrangle some electrical subcontractors; do some laundry; repair stuff with Superglue and generally knock back dozens of little annoyances. It’s a suggestion from the GTD book, just doing stuff that takes under 2 minutes, rather than adding it to a to-do list, that really works for me. Because once done, these tasks can now be forgotten, really. Deleted from the mental hard drive, like some photos I’d rather not talk about.
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