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My Workshop (and the massive clean-up)
Jul. 23rd, 2009 04:46 pmInstead of fantastic images from the San Diego ComiCon, you get a photo essay about what I spent the last couple of weeks doing. Huzzah!
My partner-in-crime, Lynette, had planned a family outing to Southern California some time ago. I had begged her last summer to come out to help me with the Stygian mess that my workspace (and house and storage areas and...) had become. Major project after major project, with regular ones in-between to fill the available spaces, got me to the point where I just couldn't approach the disorganized morass those areas had become.
Here is a collage of most of the projects I worked on in that period. I know I've missed a few (oops-- yes, Cornell the werewolf from Castlevania), but this should give you an idea of what was accomplished during that two+ year period.
Lynette has an uncanny knack for organization. Oddly, this springs from a self-known tendency to create messes and hating to clean them up (it's complicated). I've seen her do it in the past and I never forgot (to her misfortune).
She agreed to tack on a few days to the end of her trip out here to help me out (I have such great friends). The only condition was that we also do some kind of fun-project so that she wasn't just playing char-woman for a week. Done!
I have been waiting for that day for AGES! Finally...
...she arrives!
...and she does NOT disappoint!
Even the storage areas are looking good:
I cannot tell you how happy I am! Workspace! Must maintain order!
The week that this transformation took place was sheer hell: Lynette showed up around 7:30am and left sometime around 8 or 9pm. During that time I was a blur of motion (moving at about half her speed) doing what I could, taking orders and generally not stopping (she's a good commander plus I knew she only had a few days to do this). Of course, the cooler summer weather we'd been enjoying in June did a disappearing act and we had more typical temps in the 100+'s. The dogs were both excited and confused: excited because of all the activity, confused because none of it seemed to involve them or anything they find interesting.
Some sound bites from the week:
"If I find ON MORE BAG of teeth, I'm going to scream," followed a few seconds later by a scream.
"No. Nononono. No more."
"What the heck is -this-?!?"
"It's dead. Throw it away. Now."
The dogs soon discovered the open floors and immediately proceeded to turn the area into a jaw-wrestling arena.
Despite missing SDCC and my buddies very much, I'm feeling very relaxed and laid-back. I have an interesting project to work on-- one that doesn't have a deadline. The nice thing about that is I have the time to try all the *great ideas* that I have going in to a project-- ideas that often get thrown out the window once crunch time looms (with hard-deadline projects).
As before, break a leg, guys! I'll be rooting for all of you!
My partner-in-crime, Lynette, had planned a family outing to Southern California some time ago. I had begged her last summer to come out to help me with the Stygian mess that my workspace (and house and storage areas and...) had become. Major project after major project, with regular ones in-between to fill the available spaces, got me to the point where I just couldn't approach the disorganized morass those areas had become.
Here is a collage of most of the projects I worked on in that period. I know I've missed a few (oops-- yes, Cornell the werewolf from Castlevania), but this should give you an idea of what was accomplished during that two+ year period.
Lynette has an uncanny knack for organization. Oddly, this springs from a self-known tendency to create messes and hating to clean them up (it's complicated). I've seen her do it in the past and I never forgot (to her misfortune).
She agreed to tack on a few days to the end of her trip out here to help me out (I have such great friends). The only condition was that we also do some kind of fun-project so that she wasn't just playing char-woman for a week. Done!
I have been waiting for that day for AGES! Finally...
...she arrives!
...and she does NOT disappoint!
Even the storage areas are looking good:
I cannot tell you how happy I am! Workspace! Must maintain order!
The week that this transformation took place was sheer hell: Lynette showed up around 7:30am and left sometime around 8 or 9pm. During that time I was a blur of motion (moving at about half her speed) doing what I could, taking orders and generally not stopping (she's a good commander plus I knew she only had a few days to do this). Of course, the cooler summer weather we'd been enjoying in June did a disappearing act and we had more typical temps in the 100+'s. The dogs were both excited and confused: excited because of all the activity, confused because none of it seemed to involve them or anything they find interesting.
Some sound bites from the week:
"If I find ON MORE BAG of teeth, I'm going to scream," followed a few seconds later by a scream.
"No. Nononono. No more."
"What the heck is -this-?!?"
"It's dead. Throw it away. Now."
The dogs soon discovered the open floors and immediately proceeded to turn the area into a jaw-wrestling arena.
Despite missing SDCC and my buddies very much, I'm feeling very relaxed and laid-back. I have an interesting project to work on-- one that doesn't have a deadline. The nice thing about that is I have the time to try all the *great ideas* that I have going in to a project-- ideas that often get thrown out the window once crunch time looms (with hard-deadline projects).
As before, break a leg, guys! I'll be rooting for all of you!
