Not dramatic, but getting there. Most of the differences remain internal via boxes, shelves, bits and pieces.
Friends, well wishers, etc. are still getting confused over this project, especially when I reference it in Facebook’s low-end, poor-man’s Twitter update. So I’ve made a separate Category on the site for it to make it easier for those who ask.
Thanks to Earth Day and my mother-in-law’s yard sale (rescheduled from last week due to the rain), we did make progress on the P part of SPACE from Dr. Custer’s plan/suggestion. We haven’t received the final total but initial estimates on our share of the profits are around $130 to $145; I think the PS2 was the big prize. The environmental holiday pitched in more on the garage thanks to those old monitors and printers residing there.
Rumor has it, a local flooring store is having a sale so we need to investigate this because the future library is likely to be the guinea pig on pulling out the original, crappy carpet and have it replaced with bamboo. Somara is the one wanting to go with the plant-based material. As long as it’s affordable, easy to clean and invulnerable to cat whiz, I’m cool.
More of Somara's boxes are stacked up by the window and I've purged or contained more junk off the floor.
I got more cleared out of the future office area. There’s more visible contrast on what I achieved yet much of it is the usual clearing out of paper, cards and other trivial pieces of junk. The big gray container is becoming either the permanent or temporary home of my enormous concert-shirt collection. I was going to pitch my mediocre filing cabinet since Somara’s nicer wooden one has become the home of the important paperwork (past taxes, other financial matters, etc.). Then it proved fairly effective at retaining all the old D&D junk I’ve accumulated over the last nine years I don’t want to trash due to all the effort I expended: adventures I printed/photocopied from Dungeon, NPCs who should return, maps to have laminated at kinko’s and ideas for my campaign, should I ever play again (debatable lately, but that’s a story for another day). I can see my part coming along though. When I walk from the door to those boxes against the window without worry of stumbling or stepping on something, I know I’m at the so-called tipping point.
Now to stay focused on giving away some things we found to friends and co-workers: another Playmobil pirate ship, comic books, computer books and old media. I hope next week’s photos shown a more obvious improvement.