Finishing the Office
Aug. 17th, 2023 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aIt took me almost four years, but my office is finally feature-complete.
The built-in bookshelves finally went in last December after years of delay, many of them pandemic-related (others, it's hard to find professionals in Kauai and we had other stuff on our mind–related).
The chair and a free-standing bookcase arrived in the last few weeks. The chair was long needed as somewhere to comfortably sit and write (and unfortunately has already been partially destroyed by Elmer). The white bookshelf replaced a different one, which just didn't fit and made the room seem much more crowded (while simultaneously making it hard to see the books).
On Monday, while Lucy was at the vet, and I wasn't in the best mood for creative work, I busied myself with building that new bookshelf and getting everything clean and sorted, while listening to a few final podcasts related to the last chapter in my Traveller history book (and rushing over to take notes every once in a while).
Then Tuesday night, Kimberly helped me hang up some gaming maps to give the room some color and character. (I think I'm going to eventually be replacing the Chaosium Jonstown map with some of their stuff from Redbubble; sadly, none of the other manufacturers I love have a Redbubble presence that I know of.)
And voila! Office!
I say feature-complete, but there's one outstanding (known) bug. I still need to rip out the old carpet in the closet, replace it with vinyl planking, redo the trim, and work with my dad to rout out some thresholds. But, I finally have room to move out my vast quantities of comics currently in the closet, thanks to the work upstairs on game shelving, and so that's hopefully a Fall project, after I get back from Germany where I'll be aiding in the facilitation of Rebooting the Web of Trust 12 in about four weeks.
The built-in bookshelves finally went in last December after years of delay, many of them pandemic-related (others, it's hard to find professionals in Kauai and we had other stuff on our mind–related).
The chair and a free-standing bookcase arrived in the last few weeks. The chair was long needed as somewhere to comfortably sit and write (and unfortunately has already been partially destroyed by Elmer). The white bookshelf replaced a different one, which just didn't fit and made the room seem much more crowded (while simultaneously making it hard to see the books).
On Monday, while Lucy was at the vet, and I wasn't in the best mood for creative work, I busied myself with building that new bookshelf and getting everything clean and sorted, while listening to a few final podcasts related to the last chapter in my Traveller history book (and rushing over to take notes every once in a while).
Then Tuesday night, Kimberly helped me hang up some gaming maps to give the room some color and character. (I think I'm going to eventually be replacing the Chaosium Jonstown map with some of their stuff from Redbubble; sadly, none of the other manufacturers I love have a Redbubble presence that I know of.)
And voila! Office!
I say feature-complete, but there's one outstanding (known) bug. I still need to rip out the old carpet in the closet, replace it with vinyl planking, redo the trim, and work with my dad to rout out some thresholds. But, I finally have room to move out my vast quantities of comics currently in the closet, thanks to the work upstairs on game shelving, and so that's hopefully a Fall project, after I get back from Germany where I'll be aiding in the facilitation of Rebooting the Web of Trust 12 in about four weeks.