A few weeks ago I posted on Craig’s List that I would take any local bands photo’s for free if I could use them as part of my portfolio. Cody Lawson was one of the first people to contact me and about a week later I met up with him in historic Gruene, TX.
You can see the whole set here.
– Jeremy
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So part three of my office project was to reconfigure the layout of the electronics. I drilled a hole in the first shelf so that I could put my external hard drives up there and free up some desk space. As you can see from the photo I still have some cable management to sort out but all in all I am happy with the small but dramatic change.
You can also see some more stuff made it’s way back in to my office. Basically some books I am not ready to part with and some DVD’s I am in the process of converting to a format that can be played on our Apple TV so they can be stored.
Let me know what you think. Probably this weekend I will work on the cable management so look for one more post.
– Jeremy
Today was mainly dedicated to sorting the items from my office in to 1 of 6 piles:
I was able to work my way through all the stuff and pretty much get everything in to one of those 6 piles. I still have a stack of notebooks to go through and a stack of business cards to sort out.
– Jeremy
I’m not sure why but recently I have developed a huge aversion to clutter and really disturbed about the amount of “stuff” I own. My office, for example, is the one place in the apartment where the majority of the contents are “mine”. It had become a collection of things and basically a place that I really didn’t want to spend much time in because of how out of control it had gotten.
The first step in the process for me was to remove almost everything from the office. Obviously I know the computer equipment will be staying. A later step in the process I will be reorganizing and rewiring the electronics.
I moved everything to our currently unused second bedroom and after dusting the shelves I began sorting through my books. I found a few web programming related books that are now out of date (aka technology has changed radically since the book was published ) I set them aside to be taken to Half Price books. All the computer and business related books I felt would be useful to me I add back to the right side of the shelf. I chose to use some of the smaller business related books as a bookend for the larger programming books. On the left hand side of the shelf I added back all my “comics” and used a spindle of blank DVD’s for a temporary bookend.
In part two I will go more into the process I am using to sort my “stuff”, some of my thoughts on how responsibly dispose of the “stuff”, what I hope to achieve and of course my updated progress. I have a feeling this small room is going to take a lot longer than I think to “minimize”.
– Jeremy
