Productive

Even though I have been home all week doing Windows Server 2008 training I have been trying to remain productive.  Every day during the lunch break I have been putting in an EA Active session.  I also have been trying to do things around the house like laundry, work on the van, work on my bike, etc…

Well yesterday after class I decided to do something that has been well overdue, clean up the hobby/fitness room.  That room has slowly turned into an in house dumping ground for things that would be “done later”.  It had gotten to the point where Ali’s desk had piles a foot high as well as other piles on the floor and elsewhere.   It was to the point where there was a narrow walkway and that was about it.  The other day when I ripped out the speakers I got very annoyed when my access to the power plug was blocked by a pile of junk.  That is what got me motivated to take care of it, myself.

You see most of the stuff in that room had been put there by Ali, she is both a pack rat and idealist by nature.  She will keep things for a rainy day when she will get around to doing them, unfortunately that rainy day hardly if ever comes so as a result this stuff just accumulates.  So I knew that the cleaning process would be much more efficient if I did it myself since I would apply my logic to the process instead of her sentiment.  It was sort of simple, pick up an item, ask myself, while this EVER likely be done or used?  If the answer is no then it’s just taking up space.  Now in reality I got rid of very little of substance.  A lot of it was empty boxes that I condensed, some bags of broken styrofoam and some of my old, unusable plain parts.

Well in the span of about 90 minutes I had the room looking tons better.  Ali could actually sit at her sewing desk now and sew if she felt the desire to.  Clutter begets clutter. It’s my job to cut it off at the pass.

I watched Fight Club last evening.  I forgot just how awesome that movie is.  It’s another fantastic performance by Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.  I just love the sarcastic, cynical, biting view it puts on today’s cubicle farmed, Ikea furnished, white collared, soft, American male and the society that has created him.  It has some incredibly powerful statements in it.  If you don’t come away from that movie thinking then you are already one of the hopeless sheep.