Projects

Having finished the male person's window dressing I suddenly found myself without a project... for about five seconds. Friday night I came home and instead of doing what rational people would do (er... relax?) I reorganized my fabric storage and my paperwork and went for a run, and then on Saturday morning I vacuumed out the fireplace and cleaned the floors and hosted a dinner. On Sunday I ran and did errands and started to catalog my library.

Now, I have a library catalog in Excel, but it only includes little things like author's first name, last name, title of book, year published, etc. It does not include the ISBN number, which I need if I'm going to upload to Goodreads. For some reason this is a necessity for me, so I launched that project yesterday.

I took down books in stacks of five and filled up my dining room table. Then I picked up each one and logged it into Excel, sorted it by author's last name (my sorting had got way off in my favorite authors), dusted it, and returned it to the shelf. From logging to returning to shelf for 100 books took about an hour. One hundred books takes up 1/3 of one shelf. I have 7 shelves.

This...should keep me busy for a while.