M. Silver's Journal: Tired, but happy

Today was the first day of five-day-a-week pre-kindergarten, and I've made good progress toward my clean-the-basement-this-week goal.

I didn't get the computer equipment marked yet... my husband isn't quite into the "If there's any doubt, get rid of it!" spirit yet. We're both hopeless pack rats, so I'm making myself get rid of stuff ruthlessly. So far we have one monitor to keep for a spare (they're all small 15"), have decided to trash all the hard drives (none of the working ones are over a gig), and the keyboards (except one big clicky M-type, which I love) are going in the garage sale box. The computers are probably all going away, but my husband has to agonize over it a little first, I think.

Meanwhile, I cleaned the litterbox today, which badly needed it. And then I boxed up books downstairs... that's temporary (I think) so that we can move them upstairs. Then I started sorting the junk that's accumulated in what used to be my husband's workroom down there, and surveying what's in the closets (answer: stuff that should be on shelves). I think I'm going to gut the closets and build some 2x4 frames to hold the Rubbermaid totes that hold most of the business' inventory. I still haven't decided if that room's going to be the business' workroom or not. I'm trying to avoid it.

And then I sorted laundry. And now I'm pooped.

Basement

[here4fun]

I think you are right on track with the 2 by 4 shelves. If your hubby has a woodshop, or has a friend who has one (table saw, router, etc), then you can make some impressive and strong storage shelves which will make the basement look nicer and cleaner. If you ever flooded or have moisture in the basement, then you might want to treat the wood with stain, which acts as a barrier against moisture.

I don't throw away old PC's, no matter how old. I have a Pentium 166 that is running linux, and from time to ti

Re:Basement

[M. Silver]

Heh. You underestimate what I mean by "old." I'm typing this on my current desktop machine, which *is* a P166... the gear from the basement is much older than that (or broken). One of them, for instance, is a GRiD 386-33. (It being a GRiD, it probably still works.) Anything newer than that is on the "rack" - a metal-framed shelving unit with particle-board shelves, on which live the various servers (which I spend most of my time in a shell of, thereby feeling no particular need to upgrade this machine).