You need serious help mate. The issue with that catalogue system is that it had to be neat and tidy for a fair bit of time and that is simply not called for. Not enough tying going on if you ask me.
R Mark Romero wrote: > Nick, sounds like you good and sick alright..........that's good, > because once infected well...........it's over. All you need to do is > get to that point where you MUST tye every single day if at all > possible, to maintain sanity. But you'll be there soon......not to > worry. And once there, total serenity sets in.........no more > hassels.........everything is clear.........you "know" exactly what to > do, why your doin' it and when to get it done. Comprende'? mark..... > lmao......... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VFB] Re: "Project : Clean-Up" > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:29:41 +0200 > > ”/do you suppose all this activity is a result of getting ready for > winter..so-called "settling in"? In my case, it will make/ > > /the Christmas tying much easier. Have you found that your tying is > lots easier as well? //Let me know. Joyce/” > > > > For me ‘settling in for winter’ has got very little to do with it. I > don’t have this tying season that many tyers have, simply because my > amount of fishing doesn’t make summer qualify as ‘fishing season’. > This year the fishing has been a week up north and two days at the > local P&T club lake. Last year was a weekend up north and three P&T > trips to the club lake. > > The primary factor in what triggered such a, for me, unnormal > behaviour as tidying up without real reason is that the time spent in > front of the vise has decreased. It hasn’t been as much tying for fun > as it was before, without a real ‘purpose’ for the flies (such as need > for fishing or swaps etc). It doesn’t feel right to sit down and meet > irritation the first thing you do so the choice has been tying with a > “tying because you have to” feeling... or doing something else. It’s > like having to start with washing the dishes before start cooking... > or going for the easier and available choice – microwave food, pizza > etc. (and saving the mess/dishes “to the next time”). Many of my tying > sessions have also been with the gear carried out to the kitchen. > > > > /“My sister is organizing my tying room for me this past few weeks as > well. I have a lousy sense of organization, so when I can't find > things, I go and get another. Now each color of thread is in a > separate keeper and she's half way done with the flash, furs and > feathers,”/ > > > > I would say that INITIALLY I’m quite organized... and the life in here > SHOULD be easier than it has been. I have an Excel based material > database telling me *where it’s located*, what *category* it is, what > *specific material* it is, what *type*, what *color*, what *size*, > what *grade/quality*, *status* (soon out/how many spares), *source*, > *wholesaler* and *manufacturer*. If I know that I have pink rabbit > strips, this will tell me if they are crosscuts before I start > looking. If my regular dealer is out of the material I’m looking for, > I will have the wholesaler to contact for other dealers. If I need > something that I don’t have, this will tell me the close things to it > and making it easier to figure out a suitable substitute... etc... > etc. Nothing goes into a drawer/box without getting a row in this > sheet. If I’m lazy for the moment or don’t really know much yet (often > auctions), it goes into the “awaiting” box and a row in the bottom > without closer details. Being a shared file on our local network I can > quickly see from another computer in the house... and also being a > file in a private folder on my website domain, I can even see from a > computer somewhere else. > > > > So, INITIALLY I’m quite organized and the ‘thought’ is there. The > ‘maintaining’ has been a whole other deal though. Much has been on the > floor, on top of eachother somewhere else... or spread out in the > wrong places. But now I will make an effort to change this and make it > “fun to tie for fun” again. > > > > /Nick > > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > *Från:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *För *Joyce > *Skickat:* den 17 oktober 2009 02:25 > *Till:* [email protected] > *Ämne:* [VFB] Re: "Project : Clean-Up" > > > > Wow! I am impressed. My sister is organizing my tying room for > me this past few weeks as well. I have a lousy sense of organization, > so when I can't find things, I go and get another. Now each color of > thread is in a separate keeper and she's half way done with the flash, > furs and feathers, etc. do you suppose all this activity is a result > of getting ready for winter..so-called "settling in"? In my case, it > will make the Christmas tying much easier. Have you found that your > tying is lots easier as well? Let me know. 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