denny: (Warning - Chaotic system)
Does anybody have use for a bunch of Windows educational/encyclopedia software? There's one about science, one about nature, and possibly one about space. They're pitched at 8-10 year olds if I recall correctly - possibly younger, it's been quite a while since I looked at them.

In related news, I just finished unpacking the last big box of stuff that I moved in here with (not including the books, which I can't unpack yet due to the damp problem). I've taken this last box along with me on my previous, um, six or seven house moves, without ever unpacking it, or even looking in it much, so it was a bit of a random expedition through my life of ten or so years ago. Obviously most of it has got thrown away now (including more versions of Linux on CD than I could be bothered to count), but there was some amusing keepable stuff in there too... for instance, student's union cards with pictures of me looking all young and shiny :-p

In place of the huge pile of various shape and size boxes that I moved in here, I now have half a dozen boxes of stuff slightly more neatly packed into stackable plastic containers, which I can stash away in a cupboard (once I get that damp sorted out).

Gosh, it's almost like being a grown-up. Fortunately my next task is to inflate the ball-pool and fill it with all the balls, including the new ones that [livejournal.com profile] konekosaru just donated to the cause of ball-related happiness :)
denny: Photo of my face in profile - looking to the right (Default)
Well okay, maybe not eternally... if I actually started, maybe I'd have a better chance of finishing at some point :) However, last night I did just that! (start, not finish). And lo, there was much achievement. The sofa and armchair are now in the study (which was the bedroom) rather than taking up space in the bedroom (that was the frontroom). Moving the sofa by myself was entertaining, especially considering how crowded that place is with my Stuff. As well as managing the miraculous feat of sofa re-arrangement, three out of the four bookcases got moved from the study into the bedroom. I realise the study sounds like a better place for bookcases, but I'm seriously starting to think I sleep better if I can see my books as I'm drifting off... for me, they make the difference between 'house' and 'home'. Besides, I like being able to reach the next book in a series easily if I finish the one before it while I'm curled up in bed at night :)

So, still to do:
* Move fourth bookcase from study to bedroom. Move fifth bookcase within bedroom, to sit with the other four. Mmmm, books.
* Buy computer desk for study, re-assemble computer system. Yay, intarmuwebs!
* Buy more clothes storage, assemble in study*, put clothes away.

This morning my muscles ache a fair bit, and I'm ridiculously tired. Not that I'm terminally unfit, oh no. Time to start getting down the gym again I guess.


* yes, okay, it's a bit of an arbitrary designation. Study is easier to say than "the room that's no longer the bedroom", it's not big enough to be a lounge, and the thing I'll spend most time using in that room will be my PC, so 'study' seemed vaguely more accurate/useful than any of the other options.

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