There's a hole in this room!

The computer room has a big gaping empty spot where the (now-extra) desk was. Yes, we finally moved it downstairs! Mind you, the bulk of the credit goes to Scott. While I helped the whole way, he was on the lower end of it as we went down the stairs, when we discovered that the only way we were going to get it around the corner without standing there so long our arms fell off, was to lift it the extra 6 inches or so to clear the corner post. But other than that it went pretty well.

Of course, there are no bookshelves where there will be bookshelves. I'm not sure if I'll work up the energy to do those this afternoon or this evening. I'm certainly not doing them now. I need some time to relax first. I may do the grocery shopping while I'm relaxing, but I'm not going to put shelves together before noon. But if I do get them up today, then I will have actually met my goal to accomplish that on this vacation...so I just may be insane enough to tackle later this afternoon.

(Scott has gone to game at a friend's house. However, I've put these exact type of bookshelves up before on my own - it's not a big deal. Removing the desk, much bigger deal.)

There is progress on the organizational front! (And a truly amazing amount of Stuff got thrown out. So much so that I'm holding some of it to go in the trash next week.... Whee!)

Meanwhile, while cleaning for this last night, I finally found the drivers for the USB switch, which let me install it on the desktop. The USB hard drive can now be switched between the laptop and desktop without having to move the cable.

*pantpantpant* Shelves!

The booksehlves are in. They look much better there than did the desk - the room is more open. (When the desk was gone and the shelves weren't there, it looked like bare/wasted space - but with the shelves it's nice).

I need another shelf set. I also need to find at least two mounting thingies for the one shelf remaining from the last shelf set. If I fail, the next shelf set will have a couple extras, as they usually do....

Have moved the obvious candidates over from the bookshelf closer to my desk. Will need to unpack the boxes of crud that were on the floor and figure out where they belong. But I'm deferring that until after I have the shelf set. Since it is nice to actually have places to put the things you are sorting out. I can pick it up tomorrow on the way home from work.(The new set needs only one more shelf. The one near my desk, however, is being repurposed from 'mostly large computer books' to 'mostly smaller stuff with some larger stuff' and needs more shelves. Plus, well, I need the mounting thingies. Sigh.)

Many thanks to pheon who got a call from me today basically asking if I should push ahead with what I was doing or try something different. As it turned out, the answer was push ahead and that worked. (Very, VERY stubborn stud that did not want to let the screws in - I wasn't sure I hadn't hit metal. He pointed out logically that I should try to drill - that would let the screw in if it was just a really hard stud, and not work if it was metal. It worked. For certain 'ow my arm got a workout' values of work. This bookcase is not gonna come down accidentally. I'm not sure it'll come down if we want it to....)