Getting Sorted

[susandennis]

I finished off a shirt that I started a few days ago. It was from a new to me pattern. I love the shirt but not the pattern.

I have now two big organization projects that I want to get on track. The first is my sewing patterns. I have some that I make over and over again or want to. In the cutsey sewing lingo, they are called TNT's Tried and True. Those I want to keep nicely printed out ready to use copies of over my sewing machine.

There isn't space to keep a massive number of patterns and keep them organized. So I want to go through all of mine and make sure they are bringing me joy and are appropriately documented and labeled.

That starts tomorrow.

The other big project is my MP3 files. They are everywhere and misnamed and in a folder structure that has empty folders. It's just a giant mess. So I'm going through them all one by one. Each file is tested for sound, labeled .mp3 and then placed in artist folders where dupes are culled. I'm going to do 3-5 folders every day. Today I did Abba which was a total of 5 folders but one got deleted because it held Track01/Track02 files that were all dups.

A few weeks ago I spent two days organizing my sewing room. Putting stuff away. Putting like stuff together, culling out stuff I don't need or want now and cutting 6" squares out of left over fabric and tossing out the rest. The result was a work room that is a delight and well worth the effort.

I'm looking towards my reorganized patterns and music files to do/be the same.

I'm heading off to 13 Coins in just a bit. My plan is to take the long way around and give my fitness tracker a chance to stretch its legs. I was going to walk up to the fabric store - they have some new knits in - according to Instagram - but I really don't need more fabric right now. And I was going to go down to the SODO flea market which is today (the second Saturday) but I don't need more junk either. So... now I've had a lovely day but the tracker has not. Time to give it some love.

Then baseball and TV and knitting.

Comments

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I don't know how it is these days, but TuneUp helped us a lot with our MP3 library after we moved in and merged our individual libraries into one. Might be worth it. But of course I would also recommend making a copy of everything and running it on the copy.

[susandennis]

Oh I don't ever play music from the PC and there's a copy on Google and a copy of my external hard drive.

But, thanks for the TuneUp tip!

[jwg.livejournal.com]

I always run my iPod in shuffle mode so I don't care about organization of the ~3,500 "songs" that are on it. Lots of contra dance music, some english country dance, some classic jazz, folk music, and some classical - from medieval to modern. I get some interesting transitions. I basically only use it at the gym so it runs for about an hour.

Yesterday for the first time in about 20 years I played a phonograph record: Abbey Road. I am going to get rid of most of my records.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

That's me playing the harp in concert about 40 years ago.

[susandennis]

You know, I always thought that was Kris Kristofferson! Seriously. Now, as I look at it carefully, I can see that it's you but until today, I've always wondered why you used Kris Kristofferson as your userpic sometimes.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

And I remarked at the end of the playing of Abbey Road that, while there were some nice things on it, it was clear at that point that their best work was behind them.

(It probably didn't help that I had arrived home during that torture session that ends the first side.)

[susandennis]

it was clear at that point that their best work was behind them

No! Really?

And, thanks for the gafaw.