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Shane on the Wire
Distractions and all that stuff
Once again, I’m late putting this in. Angelina has been reminding me far too many times lately about getting it done. It’s not that I dislike writing, its more about the distractions. You would think that given the significant number of rain days this winter, I would have all the time in the world but there seems to be more than ever to do.
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Shane Beets Co-owns (newly branded) A1FenceworX, and builds fences in Northland So here I am on a Saturday afternoon, it’s not raining and the list is growing. We have been going through a rebrand. Not an easy thing to do and very costly. Because of all the days off this winter and how much cash we have already invested in the rebrand, I have decided to build the website myself. It’s taken the whole morning just to figure out how to insert a theme. And I still haven’t decided which one. There is far too much choice. One thing I have learnt about fencing and clients is they hate too much choice. As the saying goes, ‘keep it simple stupid’… So back to the distractions, the “Distraction” is like a living thing, a monster if you will. Green eyed? I’m not sure. Usually, it manifests itself under a cloak of invisibility, so I don’t get to see it. But I know it’s there. Like a feeling from the lower bowels of the gut. I took a break from the office chains for an early lunch, leftovers from last night’s dinner, mince and lasagne and I gazed around the kitchen as I waited for the microwave to do its thing. We have an old church, built in the late 1800’s. Having spent a huge amount of cash and time, we have worked on rebuilding it into a somewhat non-draughty and non-leaky home. The kitchen is at one end and leads into the laundry then on to the back door. That end is still original. Windows leak, unpainted patchwork of jib on the walls, the kitchen I bought second hand, bastardised it and sat it in place, sort of, around 12 years ago and there it remains. The laundry is in a similar state with the addition of a soft floor. When we have visitors, the washing basket gets put on the soft bit, so no one goes through the floor.
I built a deck around the side a while ago now and put an insert in for a spa with the idea of building a room around it. We have yet to get the spa... I occasionally get called things I’m not going to repeat because apparently our clients get far superior fences than we have, so why can’t I do the same here? I put it down to the mighty “Distraction monster”. I’ve been told that if we work through a list, the “Distraction monster” will go away. Problem is, if I cross something off the list, someone adds another two things to it. Then I look at the new things and the monster comes back.
You would think that as you did lots of stuff when you were younger, as you got older, there would be less to do, the list would shrink. Not so. As I sit here writing this and trying hard to suppress the “Distractions”, another one comes to mind. Wouldn’t it be really cool, if we could rearrange all the things flying around in our heads into an orderly format, like a file manager on a computer. Think I would have quite a few folders...
So, as I’m sitting here mulling over how to finish such a weird article, I’m once again distracted, the sun is shining, finally, and the wind has dropped and the poor under-used boat is still sitting on its trailer, unused… But I have the website to get on with, it won’t build itself.
So be gone with you, Distraction Monster. Straight posts and tight wires. Shane
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