Quiet day at home.. starting to ramp up for a running start at work. I realized as I started revving for work just how relaxed i’ve gotten over the break.. that’s a really nice thing ! I know I’m going to be even busier than last year .. which is hard to do.. I’m looking forward to it, though !

Our  one real accomplishment today was to clean out the “old lab”.. once upon a time before we built the garage-yoga-studio-workshop/lab .. the boys and I used the large closet in the front of the house as our workshop.. I started getting uneasy about keeping some of the chemicals I own inside the house.. which was My big motivation for building a garage  (in addition to having a place to park the cars and do the occasional downward dog 🙂

We now use the old lab mainly for storage.. and it gets to be like a coral reef.. there are layers and layers of stuff that gets stacked in there.. and only the outermost layers are reachable. We decided to attack at least that reachable layer as a good way to start the year

 

there were four  big bins of computer cables , wall adapters , ac cords and audio cables.  The contents of each looked like this. I’d love to understand the dynamics that take a bunch of nicely coiled cables and over 5 years or so turn them into a gordian knot.. seriously there must be some super cool mathmatics at work there !

I find I’m always rummaging  through here looking for adapters.. you never know what you will need .. .. Ahh the rummaging must have something to do with the mess..

 

it took hours to untangle each of those messes, sort them (eg.. now all the hundreds (yes.. literally) of wall warts are sorted into bags marked <5v, 5v,  5v>x<12v,12v,>12v)  .. what a great metaphor for getting your life together.

 

many hours later things started to look a little better

 

look.. you can actually see the floor !

i can now charge into 2016 …  you can’t stop a man once his cables are untangled.. !!!

nite all, nite sam

-me