I was shovelling snow today (again!) and realized that, without thinking, I was treating it like a web site, or web content. I was chunking it all out.
The driveway, which is fairly long, curves around to the back of the house. In my head, I saw it as three distinction sections. The first third gets the most snow - closest to the street, few tree branches overhead, most exposed. The middle section gets a fair amount of snow, but not as much as the first. The last section, closest to the back, gets the least snow because it is most wind protected and has the most cedar and pine branches overhead.
Maybe, like a three column blog, it has the larger post section plus two sidebars, one more extensive than the other. Whatever ... The point is, as with web sites and creating content, such as text, a great big, long stretch of snow is daunting. Three sections is less so, even though the amount of snow needing to be shovelled is the same. Content, as a great big hunk of text with few paragraphs, is off-putting to say the least. A web site, unorganized (as in chunked) is the same - where do you start? How do you find stuff?
Perhaps this is a silly post. But most things become easier to grasp, manage, even approach when they are broken up into more manageable sections. (Yes, that's Web 101 stuff. I'm stating the obvious.)
Living in New Brunswick, there is a lot of snow. So it's not surprising I would think this way and write something like this.
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