Getting the lead out

I made it to EMS rounds this month. It was pretty short. I also got photos of Heston for the paper. They wanted a photo of him for an article they are doing on him. Following those photos I got the number of calls that Pullman Fire has responded to since about eighty-three. I am going to work on a webpage with that information.

I made myself a promise, as I do all the time, but rarely keep them. In my spare bedroom I have had several boxes that need to get sorted. I need to do a general sort and separate computer stuff from the office stuff from tool from music and movies etc. There are fourteen boxes. I need to get those boxes emptied and those items put into like-categories. Then I can sort through the like-categories and decide was to keep and get rid of. It will help me store the stuff as well. But everytime I walk into the room I don’t know where to start. So my promise to myself is to do one box a day. Only one box. If more get done, then cool, but one box minimum a day. Within two weeks I am done with the first sort, which will make the second sort faster and easier.

Today I went into the room and knocked out about five boxes. Tomorrow I hope to get one more done. I will just keep on with it until I am through all the boxes. I will have an idea of what I am keeping and getting rid of. That will also allow me to totally empty out the spare bedroom.

I also got my garbage can today. I don’t have enough for a dump run, but too much to keep storing around the house. Now I have a big garbage can I will use for the next couple weeks until I am done with my major trash throwing away of stuff. Then I will downsize to the smallest can they have. But I got a lot of trash taken out with the can. Plus I found out they will let me take my boxes up to their place and throw them to recycling there. That will get rid of another big area of mess in my garage.

When I finally get the cardboard boxes out of there, I will need to work on taking furniture to Goodwill and getting rid of it there. Or maybe I can run a couple ads on Craigslist first. Then get rid of it, if it does not sell.