Yesterday, I noticed that my list of explicitly set goals for this 6 weeks might not be achievable, mainly because of a growing list of adhoc small things I want to also accomplish -- the so-called unplanned "work". A non-exhaustive list of such examples include: learning how to make waffles from scratch, locating the back issue of Amazing Spiderman from ~1988 that includes my printed letter on the back pages -- the one answered by Stan Lee, and perfecting a recipe for a 500+ calorie protein/carb drink using < 6 oz of liquid. Below is a continuation of similarly inspired items:
- Introduce yourself to the neighbor across the street, and find out WTF is up with the idiot who lives on the ground floor (discreetly)
- Go visit the factory that makes All-clad pans
- Clean the gutters
- Caulk all of the small holes around the house (I live in a 120 year old 5-story brownstone, so this is not as small as it sounds)
- Locate a mirror for the parlor floor bathroom
- Organize the junk room
- Rewrite the house manual for our airbnb apartment
- Figure out all of the monthly expenses and put them on the family calendar
- Resynchronize all family calendars
- Cancel all monthly subscriptions that don't make any sense
- Upload and tag 20+ years of photos/videos that were recently lost from a failed hard drive, then recovered at great cost
- Arrange and order the family vacation photo book
- Write a song
- Write a short short story about a group of street-smart backyard cats in Brooklyn who have to team up with squirrels to fight the rats
- Work on a working version of your squirrel trap, using an arduino circuit board
- Build a working trebuchet
- Destroy the knotweed infestation that is growing over the fence, in the neighbor's neighbor's yard
All of these unplanned goals 👆seems to me to be thematically identical to the planned goals - personally meaningful, occasionally whimsical, and maybe even useful in some small way.
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