Let's Clean Up!

[starshipcat]

During the 2008 financial meltdown, Jerry Pournelle advised a friend who was having PTSD symptoms that the best way to deal with the situation was to make one's own personal space as clean and orderly as possible. At first it didn't seem to make sense -- it seemed like busywork, or even punishment -- but as the current crisis progresses, I see two

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[whswhs]

COVID-19 didn't interfere with my work-I've been working at home since 2002-but not having broadband since 20 March certainly did. We got into our new apartment and by now I've shelved as many books as our current set of shelves will hold; the rest have to wait till we can have new shelves delivered. Working on books helped drain some of the tension from not knowing when we'd get back online.

[starshipcat]

Being able to do some kind of physical labor does seem to help occupy the mind better than the purely mental. I did some moving things around yesterday, although there's still a lot of sorting to do, and a fair amount of filing that can't be done until I set hands on another filing cabinet. Today I made another stab at getting the stripped screw out, but now that the GrabIt has failed to extract it, I'm thinking it may be cross-threaded and in there for good. Which means my best bet may well be to set the drives from the old computer above the dead one.