What are you doing today?

Busy day off. Went to get some DIY supplies in town. Then did some filling before painting the hallway. Didn’t quite get it finished though.
Washed the cars as well.
 
Alli said:
I think for the next 6 weeks every day is going to be the same, spend an hour or two throwing shit out until I’m left only with the things I want to move.
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We'll probably be in the same boat with either a move to another state, or to a smaller home within the next 6-12 months.
 
ronntaylor said:
We'll probably be in the same boat with either a move to another state, or to a smaller home within the next 6-12 months.
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My advice from experience is to double down on the pitching-out...

I thought I overdid it at the time I left the city for good, and still ended up annoyed at some of the stuff I had dragged up here.
 
Heh, lo these many moons ago I moved from a spacious townhouse to a small 2-bedroom condominium unit, and while I managed to get rid of a lot of things, there were still some to which I hung on......and all these years later am STILL hanging on. I keep telling myself that I really MUST take some time and go through those boxes and containers. If I haven't used something in over twenty years, chances are that I am not going to be interested in using it now, either!
 
For the last couple of weeks I've been filling the walls of my stufio/office up with photographs I've made over the last 20 years. They're mostly of strangers I've hit up for conversation and a portrait on the streets in San Francisco.

I'm trying to keep it looking a bit chaotic, rather than nicely spaced in rows - that's more difficult than I imagined. My goal is to build up to the ceiling. :)
 
lizkat said:
My advice from experience is to double down on the pitching-out...

I thought I overdid it at the time I left the city for good, and still ended up annoyed at some of the stuff I had dragged up here.
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We did a lot of pitching-out at the beginning of the Pandemic when the hubby was home during sabbatical. Yet we have a ton of stuff that should have gone then. Definitely tossing all that craziness and at least half of the furniture and office equipment we currently have in the Virginia home. If we sell the house in NYC, we will downsize to a condo/coop and move the in-laws to their own unit (unlikely they're moving back to Taiwan since they're convinced China will invade soon).
 
wife is slowly getting better. I wish they told us to get this cold therapy device sooner. It's a cooler full of ice and water and a pump to circulate cold water through the pad. With a programmable timer.
These pop bottles fit in it nosy so I bought them and dumped out the pop and filled with water as it was less then water was.

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I have been watching the lashing rain, high winds, and nasty weather (a cold, dark, dismal, dreary day) outside, since early this morning - it is, if anything, getting worse - and, with considerable reluctance, have decided to forego a (my) trip to the farmers' market.
 
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chengengaun said:
Indeed, and likely less reflection off the window panes too!
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Right, I took this from the 21st floor of a hotel in Oakland last year, I turned off all the lights in the room and got the lens as close to the window as possible. It was also on a tripod and taken with a 15 second exposure. Hotels offer excellent vantage points.

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Packing the bags for a 5 day ski trip to Stowe, VT. Skiing Stowe, Bolton Valley, and Smuggler’s Notch. We just got hammered with snow so excellent timing for us. I live for this shit, I’m shallow.
 
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