torrential downpours and a faulty sump pump produced a thin layer of muddy water over most of the basement floor. i keep everything important off the ground, but getting the water up, shifting everything to one side of the basement, mopping, and repeating for the other side at least gave me a view of the uncluttered, stripped-to-essentials cellar we could have with some more hours of devoted junk thrashing.
jeff covey's Life List
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1. digitize my audio cassettes
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2. have more free time
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3. clean my basement
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4. own less stuff
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5. learn to sight read
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6. learn piano
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7. play a piano duet
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8. take a vacation
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9. learn cpr
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How I did it: i gathered all my prints and negatives in one place and mercilessly slashed the pile using the techniques in "clutter control":http://www.amazon.com/Clutter-Control-Putting-Your-Home/dp/0440503396/ . (sorry for the mess, the 43things link inserting system is broken.) i threw out the many i deemed not worth keeping and shipped the rest to http://www.scancafe.com/ . i upload the resulting scans to http://flickr.com/ . i printed p… Read how I did it…
How I did it: see my final entry for the details:http://www.43things.com/entries/view/3764758 Read how I did it…
i’ve managed to do nothing on this goal in recent weeks, but have a reason to hope for the coming ones: the hot weather. as the temperature edged past 90 in recent days, errand trips to the basement reminded me how pleasant it’s going to be to put in some hours working down there. :-)
i finished the time-consuming process of picking out the messages to keep from the first of the answering machine tapes.
as an exercise in quicker gratification, i also posted the audio from another tape which contained a piece of music i wrote in college:
http://jeffcovey.net/music/recordings/1993/multiple_exposures/
when i didn’t find this in the first batch of tapes, i thought it was gone forever. i’m glad i found and preserved it!

