nice weekend

I had a very nice four-day weekend. I took Thursday and Friday off; I didn't do much, as I really needed some downtime. I finished a novel, Soul Hunter by Melanie Wells. It's the second in an excellent series; I highly recommend it.

My new monitor arrived Thursday. It's absolutely luscious.

Thursday evening, I started building my two new home servers. Friday, I went to dinner with my brother, and then we went to Borders. Very relaxing.

I got to work on Saturday. I wiped my backup server, my old PIII desktop, and my brother's old desktop. I sorted through old clothes. I extracted my excellent-but-huge old stereo I received as a gift from my parents back in 1984 or so.

Basically, I started cleaning up my room. We took the computers, stereo, and wearable clothes to Goodwill, and threw the rest away. I cleaned out my desk, and we went to Office Depot and bought new office supplies: Post-Its, pens, pencils, etc.

And Sunday afternoon was the pinnacle: I finally found the right bookshelf for next to my desk: a 7-foot tall, 21-inch wide beauty at Cost Plus. I brought it home and assembled it. I filled it with every book formerly on my desk, or on the floor by my desk. It's only half full, and now the floor is clear, and my desk is as well.

So nice. Now I have space to think.

Next steps: set up the desk with the new monitor -- I need a new keyboard and mouse -- and some writing accessories. Retire the current server, replacing it with the faster, bigger (RAM and disk), smaller (physically), and quieter new server. Build the new backup server. And enjoy.

The credenza, old shelves, and boxes at the foot of my bed are projects for another day. but their days are coming soon.