Packing galore

The suitcases are about to be stuffed harder than what the authorized standard bodies prescribe. How could this happen? After all we filled the car to the rim the other day, so that we only had to pack the clothes that we were to wear the last couple of day before the departure.

I've also spent a good number of hours on writing a room guide for the people that are going to rent our house. The ambition was to write a one-page fact-sheet, but the printer spit out an eight-page novel. I know it's a bit exaggerated, but on the other hand: life is complicated. My house is complicated. How can you expect an American family to intuitively absorb the finer details of a Danish remote heating system?

A friendly person also volunteered - yes - to take care of my son's tortoise during our absence. The only requirement was: that I write a manual for the thing!

Two manuals/guides in less than a week! Documentation! And I'm not even at work and getting paid!

For the technically inclined: AFT (Almost Free Text) is a nice tool for ad-hoc documentation. You write the content with minimal but intuitive mark-up. A lot like with wikis. And you can use a real editor! The only drawback: it's not good with special characters like in Danish. :-(