Comic Re-Integration Project: Day 5 (Week 1 wrap-up)

There really isn’t much to report on today’s work. I sorted my Sonic The Hedgehog comics, and found there’s a few missing somewhere because of course there is. I found a couple of series I want to get rid of, but one of them needs to be reviewed on my other site first for completeness sake. I marked myself one week to complete this project, and I didn’t. There is still more sorting and organizing to do before my comics are in a proper order. That doesn’t mean I failed, though.

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Comic Re-Integration Project: Day 4

It was time to break out the table again. Today was all about sorting comics. That was the plan…but the plan didn’t require me to hate myself for what I’ve done to myself! As I’ll get into I had to seal with one section of comics totally out of order and having to be sorted more than I thought, and other titles and letters I thought I was done with! It was a huge exercise in frustration and I only have my past self to blame! But I got through it and that’s what matters!

Comic Re-Integration Project: Day 3

Yes, it’s an older photo.

I’m calling it a day earlier than I have the past two days. At least as far as the project goes. I got two boxes sorted, so that’s a good thing. However, there’s another part of this process that’s slowed me down today.

Comic Re-Integration Project: Day 2

Last year I had a bunch of medical issues, including two surgeries. I haven’t done a lot of heavy lifting since my insides were reconnected. And boy am I feeling the results now! I am so sore. Today I remembered to put on my back brace, but my arms hurt and I think my foot even paid for it. The results, however, are worth it.

Comic Re-Integration Project: Day 1

And so it begins. Working on this project seems to constantly remind me just how bloated this collection is. I have to work with 9 longboxes, a lot of drawer and shelves, and a bunch of loose stuff scattered all over. I need to really cut this down, but that’s the long game. Somehow THIS is the short game!

Comic Organizing Mega Project: Re-Integration Phase overview

I want to start 2018 in a better state than I left 2017 in many aspects of my life. I want to be able to focus on finding a job, working on projects, and getting things organized. There is one big project I need to get done before I can proceed before it becomes a Damocles Sword. That’s the comic organizing mega project. Not counting the stuff I’ve already put aside to get rid of I have numerous sets with their own personal order, but I want to put the whole collection in one order, to better find everything.

So I’m taking time this year, in-between trying to complete a (late) Christmas comic for my other site, I’m doing this huge phase. It’s not the last phase as I had hoped. Thinking about it I may want to create what I hope is a definite grouping of certain comics once I’m done clearing out what I don’t want, plus as I clear comics out I’ll be resorting again. However, I will have a better order afterwards than I do now once this phase is completed. There will be minor phases but this is the big one. And we start tomorrow. Like previous phases, I’ll have daily reports to get me to put time on this while also working on the aforementioned other site (where I’m reducing my workload) and the comic for it. This should get rid of all my distractions so I can focus on creating a work schedule that will help me hopefully find work while working on my other projects. It’s the right time to do it, so see you tomorrow for day one.

The Clutter Between Rooms

I have this area between my bedroom and the in-progress studio that’s become a bit of a storage mess. It doesn’t help that there is a slight leak near the chimney that shows up during really heavy rain but that has little to do with this project. That’s why the bucket’s there. We have electric heat anyway. The thing is it’s rather ugly to look at, so this week I decided to tackle this area and make it actually useful. Useful for what?

When I get to (I’m hoping with the next phase) complete the comic organizing mega-project (which is not the same as the collection culling super mega project, which I also have for my Transformers) I want to try again to put the comics in the closet in my room. My hope is that the comics will all be in the same place by the time this is done, including the mini-comics, a few of which I reviewed here with a crosspost from BW Media Spotlight, my primary multimedia review site that I’m also using to go through all my old comics. Anyway, the bit problem is that when I have the longboxes for the comics in the closet I have no place to put my shoes that aren’t in the way. I don’t have that many shoes: sneakers, a pair of back-up sneakers I thought I’d use around the house but I’ve gravitated to sandals around the house, snowboots, and my comfortable dress shoes I also use at conventions because they’re better on my ankles than the sneakers in that situation, as well as my alternate slippers when the others are in the wash.

Well, thanks to the clutter cleaning elsewhere I now have room to put the shoes in this cubby hole since I have room to put other things. Yes, when you get rid of clutter in one spot it opens a place for you to store clutter you’ll actually use and increases your ability to store stuff without getting in your way. So let’s do some more of that!

Christmas Tree 2017

I forgot to post these. This year the Autobots from the loose Transformers reviews plus the Mini-Con Assault Team helped decorate.

I just need to figure out what I’m doing with this area after Christmas. Do I put that comic stack back there until I can get the next phase of the comic organizing project done or put something else there and leave the comics where they are until said phase occurs.

Other Transformers in the display:

• Classics Optimus Prime
• Classics Prowl
• Animated Jazz
• Classics Rodimus
• Cybertron Brakedown
• Power Core Combiners Searchlight (Backwind is protecting him from falling ornaments)

I didn’t have room to add the Decepticons reviewed.

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A Little Pre-Decorating For Christmas

This is where I’ve been putting my Christmas tree. After the previous stage of the comic organizing mega-project I had to stack some of the DC comics there as well as the TARDIS sitting there after the closet shelf organizing project. This is not the permanent home for either but I have to move it now to make room for my little tree. And with friends coming over I can’t decorate until tomorrow, so this is the project for this week. But where to move these to?

Well it so happens I have a place. But I have sheets sitting on there. The drawer my sheets go into is full of old damaged sheets that I didn’t get to thanks to all the medical issues so they ended up here. So the project this week is to finally go through the old sheets and put the good sheets in their place, right?