In preparation of the inevitable
May. 24th, 2009 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zhieI have begun the part of the moving ritual known as PACKING
There are two neatly packed boxes sitting in the living room. More shall join them tonight.
I am actually doing better than I thought. I certainly assumed the loft part of the hall closet, which houses art and office supplies, would be a three to four box job, and it's going to come in around 2.5, so that's a good start.
I have developed a system for the packing ritual. Years of library training led to this.
Each room (at the new location) has been assigned a letter and a color. For example, the room that will be the library/music room aka my domain has the letter Z and the color purple (I'm sure no one is surprised about either of those -- see? the system makes sense!).
Each box has that letter, in that color, on the top in a circle. Beneath the circled letter is a number, which corresponds on a sheet where everything is written as to the general contents.
This sheet, handwritten now, will be typed up and turned into an Excel spreedsheet (or, if I feel like it, an Access database) which will allow as boxes are taken to the new location for them to be 'received' and checked off. Also, if at some point something is needed from a box before, during, or immediately following the moving, we can just search what we are looking for, know the corresponding box, and open just that one instead of searching through a lot of them.
Dewey would be proud. Or at least, he'd understand.
So... betting is open on the floor for how long until this new found system breaks down. Do I hear a week? Two weeks? Can I get a month from the lady in the back with the funny hat...?
...back to packing...
There are two neatly packed boxes sitting in the living room. More shall join them tonight.
I am actually doing better than I thought. I certainly assumed the loft part of the hall closet, which houses art and office supplies, would be a three to four box job, and it's going to come in around 2.5, so that's a good start.
I have developed a system for the packing ritual. Years of library training led to this.
Each room (at the new location) has been assigned a letter and a color. For example, the room that will be the library/music room aka my domain has the letter Z and the color purple (I'm sure no one is surprised about either of those -- see? the system makes sense!).
Each box has that letter, in that color, on the top in a circle. Beneath the circled letter is a number, which corresponds on a sheet where everything is written as to the general contents.
This sheet, handwritten now, will be typed up and turned into an Excel spreedsheet (or, if I feel like it, an Access database) which will allow as boxes are taken to the new location for them to be 'received' and checked off. Also, if at some point something is needed from a box before, during, or immediately following the moving, we can just search what we are looking for, know the corresponding box, and open just that one instead of searching through a lot of them.
Dewey would be proud. Or at least, he'd understand.
So... betting is open on the floor for how long until this new found system breaks down. Do I hear a week? Two weeks? Can I get a month from the lady in the back with the funny hat...?
...back to packing...
