Mmmm, accomplishment tastes like lack of access to a room.

[kyrielle]

The bookcase is put together. It is also lying on its face in most of the floor space of the library because, frankly, I don't feel like righting 40 pounds or so of bookcase (it would be 50 with the moveable shelves which aren't yet placed) just yet. It goes much easier when you know what you're doing; no cracked veneer, less than half an hour including nailing the backing on. Of course, that was made much easier by having Scott to help. Positioning the backing is also when you square the thing, and it's not as easy as you might wish with one person. With two, we had it squared in under a minute and then it was just a matter of pinning the backing in place pending the addition of the rest of the nails.

I took two of its removable shelves for the other case, to try the shelf configuration I wanted. Scott's right there, and I'm wrong; it's ugly and unusable. So the hardcover-capable shelves will be up top as it doesn't divide well otherwise. They'll be there later, though, as I'm tired of hauling bookcase bits around for now.

If it were more critical to get them in, I really think we could get all three in today. However, my desire to assemble and attach bookshelves isn't that high. They're actually evening projects at this level, though - which is really cool and suggests we'll have a library (minus a substantial number of shelves, as the extra shelves are still on order) by the end of the week if I don't slack off.

Also, half a month documented. I need to do another half-month to be really caught up, but I feel much less like a slacker.