This is what emacs people are like, isn’t it?

[solarbird]

Honest to the gods, the shit that can fall out from one (1) simple storage problem: the little container we have for small metals too small for the recycling bin. I take them to recycling events a couple of times a year.

For the first time ever, it filled up well before a recycling event.

Anyway, six hours later, the main level hallway closet, the upstairs linen closet, our bedroom closet, and MY INDOOR WORKSHOP STORAGE SHELVES have all been revised and I’ve solved several problems, which is great I guess? But jfc I just needed a place to put extra small metals until the next recycling event.

This is what emacs users are like, isn’t it? “I finally have my key bindings exactly how I like them.”

Again.

For now.

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Comments

[vatine]

As a primarily-emacs user (I also use vi a lot, because when I was being sent around to customer sites, it was almost always the case there was a vi, and only rarely the case that there was an emacs), I actually don't rebind many keys.

I used to, but carrying that around with you, back in the days of "you want portable media, that works on many things" was either floppies or DAT tapes was a pain in the neck.

I do have a small collection of elisp utilities I have written, to simplify common tasks.

But, yes, once you go "eh, might as well do something about X", it is really quite easy ending up a bunch of only tangentially related things to simplify doing X, until all things have been lined up so that doing X is trivial.

[solarbird]

A lot of this, to be fair to me, was that they were kinda necessary. To do the job properly as opposed to throwing a box on the floor in the closet, which would, in fact, actually be in the way.

So we now have one stack less old linens (for the single mattress we no longer have; our beds are all size queen now) and four fewer old pillows (leaving four for guests assuming that ever happens again).

I had been keeping extra pillows more for possible sewing projects but... yeah.

Let me see if I can map this out:

Bedroom closet (chest of drawers):
Travel supplies -> storage box (elsewhere in same closet)
Forgotten mending -> Indoor workspace closet

Hallway closet:
Overflow small bath supplies -> Bedroom closet (chest of drawers)
Disposable COVID masks -> Main floor closet (large shelving unit)
Obsolete linens -> spaaaace
Extra pillows -> spaaaace
Overflow boxes of tissues -> main floor closet

Indoor workspace (and guest room) closet:
Guest linens -> Hallway closet
Guest pillows -> Hallway closet
ADDED: Restored EICO 379 signal generator

Main floor closet (large shelving unit):
Hole bit set -> Indoor workspace closet
Metric bit set -> Indoor workspace closet
Dremel tool case -> Indoor workspace closet
Hot glue gun and supplies -> Indoor workspace closet
Working-on-house-itself tools: -> Same closet, now in appropriate (smaller) box
Power-outage lighting: -> separated from other supplies, moved to (smaller) box within closet shelving
Disposable mask supply: consolidated to one box (previously three locations)
ADDED: New small-metals-recycling overflow box

There were a few things in here that didn't have to be done but... most of them kinda did, in order to make room in the destination locations.

[vatine]

Similar to how I ended up with upright holders for chisels and files. They'd previously simply been lying on the shelf, but that meant they were taking up a lot (relatively speaking) of area. So, as spare wood (from a pallet, anytime something arrives on a pallet, it gets broken down, to take less space, and since wood is useful...) was available, I made upright holders for them, making space for, uh, a few sheets of kydex, I think.

[mdlbear]

Emacs, window manager, bash aliases, git aliases, ... I keep all my settings in git repos. Git pull, make install, done.

[solarbird]

Yeah, but you're smart like that.

(Seriously, that's a good idea and I'm vaguely annoyed at myself for not thinking of it. xD)

Also I can't do a git pull on physical objects, as much as that would be nice. xD

[mdlbear]

Not so much smart as old. Git pull on physical objects would be really useful.

Actually, I'd settle for just make.

[sistawendy]

I'm in this entry and I don't like it. Well, I used to be.

[solarbird]

I broke it down a bit above, in another comment reply. Unless I wanted a solution that wouldn't really work well and I know I wouldn't tolerate it, it was kinda necessary. It's just... yikes. xD