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Revu2 · Mar 17, 2025, 10:21 AM

First my chime in and then my comments. Supposed to have held our annual condo meeting on Saturday, but lacked a quorum so re-booked 3 weeks out. This is the 2nd year in a row this nonsense has happened. Breathing and we'll see what unfolds.

I'm left stuck being more of the Condo Runner than is fair, just, right, or healthy for the other owners. This is my home and I must do what needs doing to keep it insured, livable, and within the protections of our governing laws and documents. So do they.

That's the motive, the experience is I've awaken that this makes me like Sisyphus. It's a Boulder to Shoulder, as far as I can see now, till I die. Yucksville Daddio.

TCJ, Oh, you're entering my zone of skills around lists and schedules. What I tend to do is use the blank side of used paper and make a daily list. Sometimes and even shorter list for a dash of work in a limited time. I do enjoy lining out items, too, by hand. When the list is completed I also love to tear it into pieces. Never to see it again.

If you're collecting your task in a notebook, look into Bullet Journaling if you haven't already. They have a method. Lots of tutorials out there on it. I personally find it too much bother, and for most things I have no joy in looking back and seeing it was done. You know, 3 weeks ago I see I went to the post office and mailed something.

SPG, about your termination case, look at what Nolo Press offers. I love Nolo press, their guides have been quite helpful when I was coping with being an estate executor and also when I was working through my lifetime strategy for managing my finances.

Re moving ... sounds like you're constructing a Pro/Con balance sheet. It's a really easy tool to gets all the various points of view with their plusses or minuses onto paper for further analysis. Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing it:

To Joseph Priestley

London, September 19, 1772

Dear Sir,

In the Affair of so much Importance to you, wherein you ask my Advice, I cannot for want of sufficient
Premises, advise you what to determine, but if you please I will tell you how.

When these difficult Cases occur, they are difficult chiefly because while we have them under
Consideration all the Reasons pro and con are not present to the Mind at the same time; but
sometimes one Set present themselves, and at other times another, the first being out of Sight. Hence
the various Purposes or Inclinations that alternately prevail, and the Uncertainty that perplexes us.

To get over this, my Way is, to divide half a Sheet of Paper by a Line into two Columns, writing over
the one Pro, and over the other Con. Then during three or four Days Consideration I put down under
the different Heads short Hints of the different Motives that at different Times occur to me for or
against the Measure. When I have thus got them all together in one View, I endeavour to estimate
their respective Weights; and where I find two, one on each side, that seem equal, I strike them both
out: If I find a Reason pro equal to some two Reasons con, I strike out the three. If I judge some two
Reasons con equal to some three Reasons pro, I strike out the five; and thus proceeding I find at
length where the Ballance lies; and if after a Day or two of farther Consideration nothing new that is
of Importance occurs on either side, I come to a Determination accordingly.

And tho' the Weight of Reasons cannot be taken with the Precision of Algebraic Quantities, yet when
each is thus considered separately and comparatively, and the whole lies before me, I think I can
judge better, and am less likely to take a rash Step; and in fact I have found great Advantage from
this kind of Equation, in what may be called Moral or Prudential Algebra.

Wishing sincerely that you may determine for the best, I am ever, my dear Friend,

Yours most affectionately

B. Franklin