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~~The kitchen nook has been cleared of cookbooks, bookshelves, loose art supplies, and miscellaneous other detritus.~~

~~The two tool cabinets that live in the upstairs office have similarly been cleared of accumulated stuff~~

~~although I haven't yet moved the stereo components and LP collection off of them.~~

~~(These will go down into storage in the 2nd bedroom for the nonce.)~~

~~Today's task is to similarly clear the decks on the desk in what will be the Art Nook so that~~

~~the desk can also be moved down into the 2nd bedroom temporarily~~

~~(first removing the second pair of tool cabinets from the 2nd bedroom).~~

~~Then the art cabinet and drafting table move from the kitchen nook to the art nook~~

~~the tool cabinets move~~ from the upstairs office and 2nd bedroom to the kitchen nook [see notes]

(pausing momentarily to trim half an inch off the bottom of two of them)

leaving a space in the soon-to-be-former-office to set up the IKEA buffet and dining room table

Oh, and there's a small formica kitchen table also occupying space that is about to become dining room. I think the best thing for it is to go to Goodwill.

The large tool cabinet has been moved into place including going through the contents and throwing out a bunch of stuff. There really is a lot of stuff I save that "comes in handy" eventually, but there's also a lot of stuff that somehow never gets used. I don't need old phone cords with broken tabs. I don't need the cordless drill that stopped holding a charge. I don't need three baggies full of woad seeds (given that they re-seed themselves quite nicely, thank you). And I really don't need every single scrap of craft lumber left over from every single woodworking project I've ever done. Maybe tomorrow I'll tackle the other upstairs cabinet and decide I don't need three tubs of dried-out spackle, two dried out tubes of caulking, a box of assorted rusty "recovered" screws, and a stack of square panes of glass intended to be made into medievaloid camping lanterns 20 years ago.