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 I'm not sure if this should be sorted under 'now I finally have time to think about such things' or 'now I really have TOO much time to think about such things', but I'm debating whether or not to move my PC from the floor to the desk. It's something ridiculous and frivolous, but let's be honest: it actually feels really good and positive that I can actually think about such things without feeling like I'm wasting time or procrastinating.

Ever since my Belfry Days back in the late 90s, it was all about utilizing every single bit of time that I could for writing or creativity or whatever. Any small amount of time goofing off with a solitaire game or updating my music catalog was similar to what I see as 'scheduled fun time' -- you know, like the after-school things like games or sports or the like. I gave myself permission to goof off for a specific amount of time, so to speak.

I imagine this is why over the last handful of years, I'd leaned heavy on the procrastination, much to my own annoyance. Maybe I wasn't giving myself enough down time because it was too structured. Maybe that's why blogging and other lighter creative outlets started feeling less enjoyable and more like a chore.

So am I going to move this PC? I may...not sure when. There's really no strong reason for it other than changing things up. I have the room for it now (it'll go in the right corner, where my Former Day Job laptop used to sit) and I'll have less reason to be nervous about accidentally kicking it. It'll also give me reason to straighten up the spaghetti mess of the wires down there. And less dust.

But yeah. It does feel great to be able to think at a calmer level again.

Whew!

Aug. 27th, 2011 05:47 pm
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So I got a really nice bookshelf at IKEA today with the idea of replacing the one currently squeezed between my desk and the wall. It's got one of those open backs so I can put things like the phone on it and not have wires kicking around everywhere.

Well, that didn't quite work.

The new bookshelf is about a half inch wider than the one it was replacing, so that meant that it didn't quite fit due to the floor heater being in the way. D'OH! So let's see...I could always replace it with the other open-backed one that's between the desk and the door...nope, it was a little too close to the corner, and what with another bookcase being kind of close to that door, the entryway was way too narrow.

So.

After a bit of mental planning and trying not to strain myself (why yes, I moved that smaller open-backed bookcase without emptying it first, why do you ask?) I did the following:

--donated the smaller bookcase that was in that corner to Emm, who has it next to her desk in the living room and has filled it with her knitting books.

--moved the desk so it's about a foot from the door. Not as narrow as when the bookcase was there, and it's nearer to the lightswitch.

--nice new tall bookcase is flat against the wall with nearly all my writing filed on it (some still in folders--I need to arrange that soon).

--said folders o' writing were taken out of one of the wooden boxes that were in front of the window. That box now has sweaters and older clothes in it and is in the bedroom closet.

--related, the big box that took up a big footprint in the bedroom closet is now up on the top shelf of said closet, now that said sweaters and clothes are out of the way. I hope to empty out the other box and combine it with the blue bin o' stuff that's here in Spare Oom.

--accidentally fried the USB hub I had by plugging the wrong power cable into it, but it's not a complete loss since my PC has more USB ports than the other one did, and since I retired two external HDs, I plugged the two remaining externals and the printer directly into the PC.

--smaller open-backed bookshelf is now in front of the window, and will most likely be thinned out and/or moved elsewhere at some point. That one is filled with reference books, which I may or may not put on the new bookshelf.



And to top it all off, I just walked over to Hot Sauce and Panko for some wings to go with our ridiculously large amount of figs.


So yeah...tired, but I got a lot done. :)

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