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Dispatch #11 (January 2024)	2024-01-04T14:09:47-05:00	false	dispatch	title url date file Organization – Office - Christopher Butler ☼ https://www.chrbutler.com/organization-office 2024-01-10T19:08:51Z www-chrbutler-com-294dnz.txt title url date file Analog Office - The Life-Changing Magic of Keeping a File Index https://analogoffice.net/2023/05/31/the-lifechanging-magic.html 2024-01-10T19:09:00Z analogoffice-net-xmnih2.txt

That's a wrap on 2023. Our little Nevie turned two in December. It's hard to imagine her changing as much in the next year as she did in the last, but I suppose it's inevitable. We spent Christmas at Claire's folks' house in Greensboro and hit up both the Greensboro Children's Museum and Greensboro Science Center.

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We're on a bit of a purge, trying to free up some space in the house. It's an overwhelming project (how did we acquire so much stuff?) but we're taking it one step at a time. I've been building new shelves and put up guitar hangers to clear up some floor space. I've taken inspiration from this post about office organization and this one about maintaining a list of where to find things.

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Music-wise, I received an Arturia KeyStep 37 as a Christmas gift from my in-laws. This thing is super nice; I'm already having a blast using it to play my existing gear, and I'm hoping it'll play a big role as I shift to a more computer-based workflow. Here's a new track called "Orographic":

I also dusted off the Switch to play Dead Cells. It's similar to Hades but in a more retro side-scrolling format. Highly recommended if you don't mind dying a lot.

This month:

• Adventure: spending MLK weekend with my folks in a cabin the Shenandoah Valley, probably take Nev to Luray Caverns
• Project: music/hobby table -- no new gear until I have a place I can actually use the stuff I have (then probably a Roland Juno as a reward)
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Reading:

• Fiction: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales, Yogo Ogawa -- I'm trying to read better books this year, and this caught my attention when I saw it mentioned on Hacker Stations
• Non-fiction: Title, Author

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