Oh, how good it feels to have a few days off. In addition to the long Labor Day weekend, I took two additional days off, today and tomorrow. So, if you count Friday night, that’s five and one quarter days to relax and enjoy myself.

In such situations, someone might watch a movie (at home or in the theater, I don’t judge), get lost in a good book, touch base with friends, or just get out into the quiet bliss of nature by hiking or fishing. I think most people want something that derails their mind and calms it; makes it so they don’t have to think of things they might normally consider responsibilities.

Me? Nope. I come up with another project and hyper-focus on it “while I have the free time to get it done.” Of course it’s around the subject of organizing things. Or rather, re-organizing things. Over time, I’ve found that the way I have been storing stuff has wasted space and made it hard to find stuff.

I won’t go into a lot of detail here, but I have two large parts organizers hanging on the wall over my workbench. Each organizer has 30 small drawers and nine large drawers and I use them for holding electronics parts (capacitors, relays, switches, transistors, etc.). Up until I started this project, it was hard to find parts and the way the drawers were divided into their constituent compartments wasted space, so I decided to stop half-assing them and re-do everything from scratch.

This meant designing new drawers, from scratch, printing them on my trusty Bambu P1P, and replacing the factory-supplied drawers with the new ones. The design process did take a few hours to get just right, but the majority of the time spent comes from printing. If all goes well, I should be 100% complete with one of the two organizers today.

I’m famous, or maybe infamous, for starting projects and not completing them. This will be the first project where I’ve implemented a encouragement and reminder system for getting it done. Basically, making notes to keep plugging away every day until it’s complete. I’ll have to see how it goes, and will report back.