How loose are my ends
Aug. 15th, 2010 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI do of course have many things to do, and some of them quite urgent: but the most pressing are the most scary, and hence to be avoided as long and as late as possible.
Besides which, I handed my copy edit over to Fedex on Friday, and am still a little like snapped elastic. I keep checking on the internets (I love tracking!): it's currently in Memphis, Tennessee. Odd, that it should have gone there when it's headed for New York, NY, but I'm sure there's a reason for it.
Besides which, it's mid-afternoon, which is never my best or most focused time. Come this evening, I shall open a bottle of wine, knot my flailing ends together and settle down to some serious form-filling. Meanwhile...
Meanwhile, I need to bake some bread: which has become a process elongated in time even as it is reduced in effort. My sourdough practice is terribly simple, it just takes for ever. Mix dough, leave it. Tip it out, draw it together, leave it. Knead it for ten seconds, leave it. Put it back in the bowl, leave it. Etc. The intervals grow longer, from ten minutes to overnight; then I bake it first thing in the morning. But during this first half-hour or so there's a lot of being around and not doing very much.
I thought I might sort out my loose recipes, but I lack a solution into which to sort them. Some are gleaned from magazines or other sources, but most are print-outs, either from the internet or from my own files. With the computer being upstairs and the kitchen not, it's easier to print out a copy and take it down. Trouble is, with computer files being searchable and the box-of-print-outs generally not, even when I want a recipe I know I printed out six months ago, it's generally easier to print it out again. This is ... sub-optimal. But how to resolve it? A box of loose recipes is never going to be usefully searchable. An organised indexed system is ... well, never really likely to happen, in all honesty. That's what one has a computer for.
I suppose technically one could fit up a second monitor in the kitchen and relay the recipe down, but again. Never likely actually to happen.
Loose-leaf binders might possibly be the thing. I have ancient ones of those, all full of important documents from thirty years ago. Um...
What do other people do? You, what do you do with all your loose recipes?
Besides which, I handed my copy edit over to Fedex on Friday, and am still a little like snapped elastic. I keep checking on the internets (I love tracking!): it's currently in Memphis, Tennessee. Odd, that it should have gone there when it's headed for New York, NY, but I'm sure there's a reason for it.
Besides which, it's mid-afternoon, which is never my best or most focused time. Come this evening, I shall open a bottle of wine, knot my flailing ends together and settle down to some serious form-filling. Meanwhile...
Meanwhile, I need to bake some bread: which has become a process elongated in time even as it is reduced in effort. My sourdough practice is terribly simple, it just takes for ever. Mix dough, leave it. Tip it out, draw it together, leave it. Knead it for ten seconds, leave it. Put it back in the bowl, leave it. Etc. The intervals grow longer, from ten minutes to overnight; then I bake it first thing in the morning. But during this first half-hour or so there's a lot of being around and not doing very much.
I thought I might sort out my loose recipes, but I lack a solution into which to sort them. Some are gleaned from magazines or other sources, but most are print-outs, either from the internet or from my own files. With the computer being upstairs and the kitchen not, it's easier to print out a copy and take it down. Trouble is, with computer files being searchable and the box-of-print-outs generally not, even when I want a recipe I know I printed out six months ago, it's generally easier to print it out again. This is ... sub-optimal. But how to resolve it? A box of loose recipes is never going to be usefully searchable. An organised indexed system is ... well, never really likely to happen, in all honesty. That's what one has a computer for.
I suppose technically one could fit up a second monitor in the kitchen and relay the recipe down, but again. Never likely actually to happen.
Loose-leaf binders might possibly be the thing. I have ancient ones of those, all full of important documents from thirty years ago. Um...
What do other people do? You, what do you do with all your loose recipes?