“If you can’t run, you walk, and if you can’t walk, you crawl, and if you can’t do that… you find someone to carry you.” – Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly
I’m somewhere between the walk and crawl break points for the project and the ranch.
Project – let’s say 5 hours left available, depending on how much of this I sneak in at work. Hey, they’re paying for me to take this class, so this is OK to do now & then.
And it is not inconceivable that I should finish what is most critically important to finish. It’s just that it’s reaching this point where things can’t go too terribly wrong; where a setback can’t be adjusted for. And I don’t like being at this point. Hard to believe I conducted most of my high school and all of my college projects at this uncomfortable horizon. Did I not have any time management skills back then?
And for the ranch … moved more furniture today. The list of heavy/awkward items keeps dwindling – I think it’s less than 10 big things still – but those big things still include a piano, refrigerator, and an anvil, so it’s not much comfort to think that there’s fewer than 10 items to haul out.
And the unending array of things that need to be stuffed in boxes continues to be unending. Today I hit some threshold and just started throwing things away. Perfectly functional 30 year old metal grease pot that I cannot get clean (I’ve been trying for months now) and will never use. Wrap in so many layers of paper and plastic so it doesn’t grease everything else in the box, so I can make the decision to get rid of it 5 years from now … or throw it away now?
I hate throwing these things away. But there’s a point where you just don’t know what else to do.