HUD, part 1
(a continuation of yesterday’s entry. Every which way I tried to write this I soon realized it was going to get loooong. Expanding each HUD entry into a fully-formed thought will take pages and pages. Looks like I’ll be splitting this into sections too.)
So, HUD. [Heads-Up Display] is the organization method I use to keep my life moving. It’s my dashboard. I used to keep this kind of thing in a notebook or on a corkboard, but tossing it up on a blog just works better. It’s already become a productive habit.
Like a dashboard, it’s just a bunch of numbers and gauges of varying obscurity. Even if it’s obvious what an item measures, it may not be particularly obvious why I care about a particular number. I’ll try to answer that broader question as I go. Here’s an explanation of each, from top to bottom:
The first item is “Rad thing du jour“. A short answer question: What was the raddest thing you saw today? Phrase your answer in the form of a URL.
Posting this helps me think back and compartmentalize all the wonderful, fun and important things that I see on the daily, both online and off. I don’t think I’m boasting to say that I find the world we live in to be freaking amazing. We are awash in wonders every single day. “Rad” (as in “radical”) is my favorite word to describe this kind of thing.
I put this right at the top of the page, as a sort of antidote to all the boring crap beneath it.
Next, “flour milled“: This is the amount of flour that I personally produced that day. I’m the miller’s assistant at an independent, organic flour mill. Flour is my stock & trade. It’s the main way that I pay my bills & make a living. (I don’t get paid by the pound or anything; I just enjoying having the number to look back on at the end of the day.)
We sell flour in bulk (25- or 50-pound bags) and in cases of two-, five-, or eight-pound bags (a case weighs about 30 or 40 lbs). We have 13 different varieties of flour, so I sometimes use abbreviations. “UBW” is Unbleached White Flour, “WW Stone” is Stoneground Whole Wheat, “BW” is Buckwheat, etc.
For some perspective, 1 pound of flour = 1 loaf of bread. I generally mill 3000 to 5000 lbs of flour every day (Mon-Fri), enough to feed a few thousand people.
(continued tomorrow)
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