Trying to speed up time
Middle of the week; time to find strategies to make the days go faster. I mean, not to push the point, but I did hang a countdown to camping calendar in my cubicle this afternoon. When you can visualize the progression, it serves some visceral need. For those keeping track, I’m in to the seventh last week, and this one is half over. There are two other weeks with four-day weekends, which means that there are only four “real” weeks remaining. And summer hours start at work, which turns Friday afternoon into a calm countdown to the weekend. There, I feel better already.
I’ve been reading up on the progress made in shortwave receiver technology. DSP rocks! Now, a nice receiver (something coveted by government agencies for surveillance, say) might cost me more money than I’ve ever seen in a pile of cash. But I’m allowed to dream. I can see me now, listening attentively to something on some frequency, thumbing through piles of accumulated resource material to try and ID the source. More fun than fishing, with little chance of mercury poisoning.
Maybe that can be a selling point, when I try to fit yet another piece of advanced technology into the small space remaining. In the budget, I mean.
If I threw out the paper archives, decided how to digitize the important stuff, acquired an electronic book reader; well, the necessary space (physical, not budget) would be a given. Time to start doing some serious comparison shopping, just in case I win an unexpected lottery.
