It’s been a month since I bought my RV, and you’d think I’d have spent that time packing and shopping in readiness for D-Day, but a lot else has been going on. I decided last fall to have some renovations done around my house and hired the Eldon of contractors (think Murphy Brown). He took 13 months to finish my sister’s house last year (original timeline: 3 months), and will have taken four months to finish what I would have thought would take 3 weeks at my place. Don’t get me wrong: I knew going in that I was paying for quality workmanship, not decent time management. And, it’s looking pretty good so far. But it means he’s commandeered my basement, my living room, my bedroom, and my garage – his is a peripatetic approach to task management: why finish one room at a time, when one can keep things interesting by doing several different tasks each day? The only room unscathed is my guest bedroom. But I can’t use that as a muster point for all things RVing – my nephew is staying with me for a four-month internship on Bay Street. It’s bad enough for the poor guy that each Sunday, when he arrives at my house, another small portion of his bedroom floor, or the closet, or his dresser, has been taken over by my laundry, or stacks of books, or rolled up carpet. I can’t also start piling ground tarps, and lawn chairs, and flashlights on top of his bed.
So, instead of packing, I make lists. As with my previous adventure, I am using Trello and One Note to track To Dos, Questions, To Pack, To Buy, etc.. lists. And I swear, I have bookmarked at least 30 different YouTube videos on RVing. But those are their own topic.