The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #169078 Message #4090967
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
01-Feb-21 - 11:22 AM
Thread Name: De-clutter & Fitness in a Pandemic: 2021
Subject: RE: De-clutter & Fitness in a Pandemic: 2021
Your dinner sounds excellent, Charmion, I hope it turned out as good as it sounds! Dorothy, good luck finding someone to clear that deck!
Executive decisions happened this weekend. I decided to push two of the biggest projects that have languished (some for years) to the front.
The question of how to scan my slides has always vacillated between get a good full-sensor camera and gear to put slides in front of an extension tube and mount to re-photograph them (best) or get the $5000 scanner with the SilverFast software and do it that way (also best). The other choices meant mechanical means that were more cumbersome, but I've decided to go with the high-end cumbersome answer for now (thank you, stimulus check) and start on the boxes in the closet. And my goal to pay off the loan within a year (the original plan for that check) will still happen by adding extra to the payment each month. The simple trick is to not spend the money on other things. :-/
The other one is to finally make the shirt from the fabric and supplies stacked on the dining table forever. I cleared the table and spread out the board last night. The layout work needs doing in the morning hours when the light is better in there.
I've started on both of these projects, and the dusting in the office is important now so the slides are easier to scan with fewer specks appearing and needing to be (digitally) removed.
Along with the slides is the flatbed scanning project of a box of documents from my Dad's house. I'll have to figure out where these things are going to live on the computer but I have the space for it, I've always had the space for it. Now just the will to do the work.