Things I need to do around the house.
It seems like a never ending struggle to balance the different items you have to do and want to do around the house with the amount of money and time available.
This year we are delaying the lawn upgrade so we can pay off all of our debt except the house by next summer. I feel like this will really help clear up the congestion of ideas in my head by lowering my stress level.
I NEED to get the hole in the basement sealed to lower the radon levels but I should vent it somehow. It seems a waste to vent the area using a fan plugged into an outlet. If only I could use a small solar panel to do it.
I would like to put a wind generator up between the houses. Just a small one about 100 to 200 watts because the wind always seems to whip between my house and the neighbors. I should do some minimum requirements gathering first though and get the average wind speed over the year between the houses. Of course this requires an anemometer and a way to record the windspeed. In itself this is a couple hundred dollars.
Jill wants a garden in the back.
We also want to hang up clothes outside but Taz’s poop area is right next to the place we would hang the clothes. Probably not a good idea. I would need to move Taz’s area and clean up the poop. Where would I move it to?
Last year we also had thistles in the yard so I have to keep on top of those this year and make sure they don’t take over. The kids can’t play in the areas with thistles.
Our basement is a mess. I don’t mean a little mess, we are talking huge mess. 1200 sq ft of mess. Disorganized and a pain to deal with.
I also need to do some work on my van. Oil leak, tranny fluid leak, interior torn apart, slightly messy (better than the basement).
Christopher wants to (and I promised I would) build an air rocket launcher that we saw in MAKE magazine.
This doesn’t even go into all the side projects I want/committed to do with LAMBA or computers.
LAMBA -
Website update
Forum update
Trail conditions notifications via Twitter/Facebook/etc.
Calendar notifications for website
Membership lists – ugggghhhhh
Wednesday night rides.
computers –
reconditioned Linux PCs for the poor
baseball card database
LAMBA stuff
microcontroller programming
This must be what it means to be an adult/parent. I look at everything I’ve read above and think about how much everything is going to cost and how much time it will take and I get completely overwhelmed. In the end, I’ll probably do very little of it. I’ll spend a lot of time on the couch playing Nintendo or helping Christopher play Nintendo.
I try to pull it all together with sites like Remember the Milk and Twitter but something seems to be missing in my organizational skills. I just can’t get it going and keep it there. I’ll go a week and really kick ass and get stuff off my plate then I’ll ramp down to my lazy ass self. I get to the point where I don’t even remember to find nail clippers to trim my nails. All of this stuff rolling around in my head bouncing all the ideas into the dark areas so I forget them when I need them but they come back just in time to knock something else out of my memory.
I’m out of here. I think I’ll go to Menards and pretend like I’m going to do something useful. 
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