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Air-conditioned office has been achieved
May. 28th, 2020 02:14 pm Per yesterday's desperate inspiration, I've accomplished the first two steps in the cascading reorganization plan. The computer desk is now installed in the guestroom and the portable AC unit has been set up and is demonstrating its effectiveness. Once I started doing measurements and grid layouts, I determined that the couch-bed could stay in the guestroom, though when expanded to bed form, there isn't much floor space left. (And the computer desk can't be accessed when the bed is expanded.)
So currently the (emptied of all contents) wardrobe is sitting in the middle of my living room, with the former contents piled on various surfaces. Since the project meant pulling a bunch of my costumes and random SCA paraphernalia out into the open, I may expand the project to include sorting through my costumes and picking only a few to keep. (Obviously this is trumping the kitchen re-org.)
Another side project that isn't currently in the way of anything else, but has been at the back of my mind is to do another trim of the fiction collection. When I was preparing to move to Concord, I got rid of about half my previous fiction holdings. Now, as I was tidying up the two-deep shelves, I'm reminded that the owning of large numbers of books I'll never read again isn't bringing me joy. So my target is to bring (and keep) the fiction down to what will fit one-deep in the existing shelves. (Mind you, one entire case, stacked two-deep, is my to-be-read case.) But that project isn't a priority.
Sorting out the SCA clothing/gear might make sense as the next step, since it's very much in the way at the moment. But the next actual re-org step is to pull things out of the master bedroom so I can clean the carpets. This will result in even more clutter in the living room on a temporary basis. Since I've accomplished the must-be-done-today part, I'm not going to tackle anything significant, but I'll probably measure things and play around with a possible new arrangement of bedroom furniture. I like to move things around every once in a while to get a feeling of newness. There are a limited number of possible arrangements of bed, dresser, side tables, and wardrobe such that everything is accessible and convenient, but I have an idea for rotating the bed 90 degrees and putting the headboard at the windows. It was one of the options I thought of originally.
Today's about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday, and tomorrow will be about 10 degrees cooler still. But one thing you can guarantee is that it will be hot again on a regular basis, so the new office setup won't be wasted.
So currently the (emptied of all contents) wardrobe is sitting in the middle of my living room, with the former contents piled on various surfaces. Since the project meant pulling a bunch of my costumes and random SCA paraphernalia out into the open, I may expand the project to include sorting through my costumes and picking only a few to keep. (Obviously this is trumping the kitchen re-org.)
Another side project that isn't currently in the way of anything else, but has been at the back of my mind is to do another trim of the fiction collection. When I was preparing to move to Concord, I got rid of about half my previous fiction holdings. Now, as I was tidying up the two-deep shelves, I'm reminded that the owning of large numbers of books I'll never read again isn't bringing me joy. So my target is to bring (and keep) the fiction down to what will fit one-deep in the existing shelves. (Mind you, one entire case, stacked two-deep, is my to-be-read case.) But that project isn't a priority.
Sorting out the SCA clothing/gear might make sense as the next step, since it's very much in the way at the moment. But the next actual re-org step is to pull things out of the master bedroom so I can clean the carpets. This will result in even more clutter in the living room on a temporary basis. Since I've accomplished the must-be-done-today part, I'm not going to tackle anything significant, but I'll probably measure things and play around with a possible new arrangement of bedroom furniture. I like to move things around every once in a while to get a feeling of newness. There are a limited number of possible arrangements of bed, dresser, side tables, and wardrobe such that everything is accessible and convenient, but I have an idea for rotating the bed 90 degrees and putting the headboard at the windows. It was one of the options I thought of originally.
Today's about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday, and tomorrow will be about 10 degrees cooler still. But one thing you can guarantee is that it will be hot again on a regular basis, so the new office setup won't be wasted.
