AhHa, now I get it!!!!  You have "but first" syndrome.  I need to do this,
"but first" I need to do that.  I have the same pathology, it's taking me
WEEKS to clear off the table in the computer room.  I may NEVER get it
done.  Ruth





At 9:00 AM -0500 1/9/05, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
>Ruth,
>
>Well, it is a bit large as dictionaries go, in 2 volumes, but the
>problem was not one of weight or size as much as figuring out what else
>had to be moved, and what had to be moved so that that pile could be
>moved in order to finally get the dictionary further away from my elbow,
>but not so far away that I cannot turn to it when desperate. I can reach
>it now just fine without falling out of the chair. Then the moving
>process always leads to uncovering forgotten tasks, and needing to take
>care of them before they are forgotten again, and in short it does take
>six hours to finally move the dictionary.
>
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