(household, procrastination, elder care)
Woo-hoo, I am the champion: i have all my Dad's apple device on the same Apple ID that has all his history, turned on MFA, synced his keychain (ie: apple's password manager, more or less), changed the email address that manages the account to his address instead of my mothers (an account no one has really looked at in YEARS). Getting the Apple IDs straightened out has been something i have been slowly inching along at for months, even before my mother died.
All morning plus too many cookies.
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Yesterday i spent the whole time getting a bunch of tasks prioritized. I made a new category so i could prioritize work-adjacent tasks separately from personal tasks. I came up with a numbering scheme between 0 and 1 to indicate
* reminders at the very top of the list (am i ready to take X on yet? If not, reschedule for the future);
* very quick things next;
* regularly occurring very quick things after that;
* 15 min sized things;
* things that can be "timeboxed" into 15 min chunks after that.
Then the numbering scheme gets much looser for project-y and process-y things. Right now things are at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 81, 91, 92, and 93. I know it is a sign of ... lets say eccentricity ... that my priority numbering has precision to thousandths place. Thedates the things will show up on the "today" list also come into play: right now there are lots of things with the same priority number but different schedule dates. Hopefully things will be done by the time the next thing with the same rank show up. The bunches of things in 81, 91, 92, and 93 still need to be sorted out. Some of them are things that should be so much higher but i need to spread them all out in time. There's much more detail in all the organization: using a "low code" relational database system has been great to get everything to work just right to how my mind works. I think the date covers urgency, the number gets both ease (for between 0 and 1), and urgency. We'll see.
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I want to reply to comments, and so hold off on writing so i can get to comments, but then i don't and then i am quiet. So, hi!
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were spoiled by sanitizing our internal plumbing and by replacing the 1998 Ranger shopping. To sanitize the plumbing the 0.5 micron filter was removed and much chlorine added -- and then unfiltered (muddy) water with chlorine was distributed around the whole house until orange water came from every faucet. Ugh. Then we let that sit for hours, and then we had to flush. And flush. And flush. I was hypersensitive to the scent of chlorine and somewhat distressed by it for the next days.
The vehicle shopping was something i think we could have avoided, but Christine was feeling like it was needed. As of Friday, she's decided it's unlikely we will find a bargain, after she test drove a vehicle that had to be jumped to get started. And the doors didn't close. We have hired The Lemon Squad to check out a vehicle that looks too good to be true an hour plus drive away. This is great in my opinion: it's both getting a mechanic to look at it (because i will never trust a random mechanic near a used car dealer to NOT be paid off) and getting information from a test drive without over two hours of road trip. The frustrating part is once we initiated the inspection, there's no refund, so even though we've "given up" there's still what happens if the inspection completes with good news tomorrow. On the other hand, if the vehicle sells this weekend, then we have to find another vehicle to be inspected in the next 90 days.
All morning plus too many cookies.
--== ∞ ==--
Yesterday i spent the whole time getting a bunch of tasks prioritized. I made a new category so i could prioritize work-adjacent tasks separately from personal tasks. I came up with a numbering scheme between 0 and 1 to indicate
* reminders at the very top of the list (am i ready to take X on yet? If not, reschedule for the future);
* very quick things next;
* regularly occurring very quick things after that;
* 15 min sized things;
* things that can be "timeboxed" into 15 min chunks after that.
Then the numbering scheme gets much looser for project-y and process-y things. Right now things are at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 81, 91, 92, and 93. I know it is a sign of ... lets say eccentricity ... that my priority numbering has precision to thousandths place. Thedates the things will show up on the "today" list also come into play: right now there are lots of things with the same priority number but different schedule dates. Hopefully things will be done by the time the next thing with the same rank show up. The bunches of things in 81, 91, 92, and 93 still need to be sorted out. Some of them are things that should be so much higher but i need to spread them all out in time. There's much more detail in all the organization: using a "low code" relational database system has been great to get everything to work just right to how my mind works. I think the date covers urgency, the number gets both ease (for between 0 and 1), and urgency. We'll see.
--== ∞ ==--
I want to reply to comments, and so hold off on writing so i can get to comments, but then i don't and then i am quiet. So, hi!
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were spoiled by sanitizing our internal plumbing and by replacing the 1998 Ranger shopping. To sanitize the plumbing the 0.5 micron filter was removed and much chlorine added -- and then unfiltered (muddy) water with chlorine was distributed around the whole house until orange water came from every faucet. Ugh. Then we let that sit for hours, and then we had to flush. And flush. And flush. I was hypersensitive to the scent of chlorine and somewhat distressed by it for the next days.
The vehicle shopping was something i think we could have avoided, but Christine was feeling like it was needed. As of Friday, she's decided it's unlikely we will find a bargain, after she test drove a vehicle that had to be jumped to get started. And the doors didn't close. We have hired The Lemon Squad to check out a vehicle that looks too good to be true an hour plus drive away. This is great in my opinion: it's both getting a mechanic to look at it (because i will never trust a random mechanic near a used car dealer to NOT be paid off) and getting information from a test drive without over two hours of road trip. The frustrating part is once we initiated the inspection, there's no refund, so even though we've "given up" there's still what happens if the inspection completes with good news tomorrow. On the other hand, if the vehicle sells this weekend, then we have to find another vehicle to be inspected in the next 90 days.