Christmas Eve Accomplishments

Monday was a day to try to accomplish as many last-minute jobs as possible before the Christmas holiday. Jamie & Terry came in to work on the plumbing starting at about 9am, but unfortunately, I didn't get much accomplished during the morning.

After lunch, things became more productive. I managed to get the following tasks done:
- I spent a few hours chipping away at the enormous pile of stuff in the upper dining room, trying to figure out where to put it all.
- I went to the bank.
- I dug around until I could find all of the boxes of paperwork for the office, and sorted that and put it away.
- I paid a bunch of bills.
- I decided that the mess on the floor was too unorganized, so I started sorting some common items into milk crates. I ended up with a crate for extension cords (with about 20 cords), a crate for recycleable (dead) batteries, a crate for coaxial cables, a crate for light bulbs (with about 50 bulbs), a crate for security camera equipment, and a crate for speaker and telephone cables.

To the casual viewer, the restaurant still looks like a war zone, and it doesn't look like I got a lot done, but at least I felt like I had accomplished a fair amount. I also squeezed an airport run into the middle of the afternoon, to drop Grover off for his flight home. That was a pretty quick trip, because my meeting at BDC had been cancelled. Anyway, by the time that I got all of this done, it was past 7pm, so I decided to call it a day.