The Python's Putz Blitz
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izmeinaIzzie's been a busy serpent today. What began as the usual house work habit has turned into a veritable cleaning blitz.
Tuesday is the usual mop and wash day since I can sleep in on Wednesdays and the clothes get extra drying time in the morning.
But being the end of the month, as well reading all the meters and tossing all the sheets and clothes in the wash, I had the inspired idea of emptying all the bins too.
I guess it is the Oz equivalent of the Witches of the north sweeping all the snow off the Harz mountains on 30th April. The whole Walpurgisnacht thing does have a creepy Halloween feel to it. And of course being in the southern hemisphere, this day is our equivalent.
Of course it is also just a convenient excuse to celebrate Halloween and to fly the inner freak flag as often as possible.
This day also marks the end of Camp Nanowrimo and my other project for the month which was to give away or find a new home for at least one book per day. The point was less about the actual quantity of books but more the habit of doing it every single day. I managed a straight streak until the 13th when I brought an organic gardening book to leave behind at the annual garden festival but got so carried away with the weeds that I totally forgot to leave it behind
Of course, once the streak gets broken, it gets easier to fail the next time. So in spite of often nuking 4 or 5 books in one hit at local Little Library book nooks, I did miss 4 days for the month. sometimes a book that has been lurking around the Lair for 10 years suddenly looks very interesting and informative when it is time to say goodbye.
The new battle plan will involve abandoning that plan for May and June and to concentrate more on actually sorting the books in order to have a giant stash ready for July.
Making April, July and November as the main donation months ties in perfectly with serpent squiggling activities in Nanoland.
I am now past 700 days on a Duolingo streak but have long given up on trying to get in the top ten on the leader boards. Not only is it far too much effort to be bothered but a whole bunch of the evil purple apples added recently to some course are just totally dodgy. Well at least on the app they are. I have lost count of the number of times that a multiple choice question will turn up where the first answer is the correct one but unlike the other two is simply not clickable. If it happens at the beginning of a lesson, I just bail out straight away because the best way out of a hole is to stop digging. But it often happens at the very end of a lesson and that means the other 10 correct answers count for nothing at all because it is simply impossible to finish the lesson.
I was getting seriously peeved with this ridiculous time wasting when I had the inspired idea of doing the new Spanish lessons using the browser instead of the Duolingo app. Problem solved. Well so far.
So next month will be partly spent plotting and planning to find sneaky ways to create new habits for getting stuff done because it sure beats relying on will power.
I also need to post about the recent Freak street festival where I got to see the real Lizard Man. Never ever imagined that I would see him anywhere other than on youtube or the pages of National Geographic.
Tuesday is the usual mop and wash day since I can sleep in on Wednesdays and the clothes get extra drying time in the morning.
But being the end of the month, as well reading all the meters and tossing all the sheets and clothes in the wash, I had the inspired idea of emptying all the bins too.
I guess it is the Oz equivalent of the Witches of the north sweeping all the snow off the Harz mountains on 30th April. The whole Walpurgisnacht thing does have a creepy Halloween feel to it. And of course being in the southern hemisphere, this day is our equivalent.
Of course it is also just a convenient excuse to celebrate Halloween and to fly the inner freak flag as often as possible.
This day also marks the end of Camp Nanowrimo and my other project for the month which was to give away or find a new home for at least one book per day. The point was less about the actual quantity of books but more the habit of doing it every single day. I managed a straight streak until the 13th when I brought an organic gardening book to leave behind at the annual garden festival but got so carried away with the weeds that I totally forgot to leave it behind
Of course, once the streak gets broken, it gets easier to fail the next time. So in spite of often nuking 4 or 5 books in one hit at local Little Library book nooks, I did miss 4 days for the month. sometimes a book that has been lurking around the Lair for 10 years suddenly looks very interesting and informative when it is time to say goodbye.
The new battle plan will involve abandoning that plan for May and June and to concentrate more on actually sorting the books in order to have a giant stash ready for July.
Making April, July and November as the main donation months ties in perfectly with serpent squiggling activities in Nanoland.
I am now past 700 days on a Duolingo streak but have long given up on trying to get in the top ten on the leader boards. Not only is it far too much effort to be bothered but a whole bunch of the evil purple apples added recently to some course are just totally dodgy. Well at least on the app they are. I have lost count of the number of times that a multiple choice question will turn up where the first answer is the correct one but unlike the other two is simply not clickable. If it happens at the beginning of a lesson, I just bail out straight away because the best way out of a hole is to stop digging. But it often happens at the very end of a lesson and that means the other 10 correct answers count for nothing at all because it is simply impossible to finish the lesson.
I was getting seriously peeved with this ridiculous time wasting when I had the inspired idea of doing the new Spanish lessons using the browser instead of the Duolingo app. Problem solved. Well so far.
So next month will be partly spent plotting and planning to find sneaky ways to create new habits for getting stuff done because it sure beats relying on will power.
I also need to post about the recent Freak street festival where I got to see the real Lizard Man. Never ever imagined that I would see him anywhere other than on youtube or the pages of National Geographic.
