While recently organizing old hard drive archives, the Wanderer unearthed a rustic interior renovation checklist from 2005 outlining planned remodels for the second floor of my childhood home. Reading through those notes brought back sweet vignettes from my youth.
Having embraced radical minimalism in recent years, I set out to purge ancient computer files; yet human nostalgia runs deep. I decided to archive the checklist here as a permanent digital keepsake.
Year: 2005 AD
- Clear accumulated junk
- Establish a systematic waste bin routine
- Remove redundant chairs and desks
- Purchase paint and interior remodeling hardware
- TV console setup (Living room: projection screen mount; Bedroom: purchase cabinet)
- Ceiling restoration
- Restroom overhaul
- Front balcony touch-ups
- Rear balcony cleanup
- Cable and electrical routing
- Wall patching, spackling, and repainting
- Spatial partitioning
- Dismantle sliding doors
- Rewire light switches and power outlets (2-gang x 3, 1-gang x 3, 3-gang x 1, single socket x 1, duplex sockets x 4)
- Remove exterior window frames of the study
- Sand and re-varnish exposed woodwork
- Heavy punching bag installation……………………………………………… OK
Speaking of the final item on the list—that heavy punching bag—it kept me remarkably lean and muscular for a good stretch of time. Combining daily physical drills with heavy bag combinations, followed by a quick shower before riding out to pick up Yvonne after her evening shift, stripped over ten kilograms off my frame in mere months, chiseling defined muscle.
Later, subsequent structural redesigns required taking down the bag. When graduate school arrived with inverted nocturnal routines (sleeping at 8:00 AM and waking at 1:00 PM), my weight steadily climbed right back to where it began.
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