The Best Made Plans

Plans to slowly and methodically update the office here at home went out the window with a phone call on Monday afternoon.  The table which was due for us to collect sometime next week had come into stock and was available to collect now.

This threw the slow and methodical plans out the window and it became a much more pressing situation to attend to.

The final outcome was not as I had anticipated.  Trish always has had a better eye for aesthetics than I have had.  I tend to focus on the practical and don't care what it looks like whereas Trish keeps the practical in mind but with a much better eye on how it would look when finished.

Just to compound the furniture change over issue, we have been experiencing hotter and more humid weather than is the norm every day this month.  The temperature has been above average by three or four degrees every day with a corresponding rise in humidity.  This has made dismantling and removing the old office table a bigger chore than we had first expected.

We completed dismantling and removing the old table on Tuesday morning.  It now sits in about 20 pieces in the sideway or on the front lawn. The new flat pack furniture has been constructed and is in place.  The stuff I store in and around the computer is still in boxes in the dining area. We have now become adept at putting flat pack furniture together and being able to decipher the instructions.

The finished office sure looks better.  I had hoped to have 'open' access to the telephone and power points but this has not happened.  The computer table has plastic slider feet and by leaving plenty of excess cord length with items connected to power boards etc, it is a breeze to slide the table out for extremely easy access to everything behind or underneath.

The shelving above the computer table requires some further fine tuning.  They are a little too high so I need a couple of more pieces to add underneath.  I will get them this morning and have that issue sorted by lunch time.

The wire hanging over the bookcase is the TV lead which will connect to a monitor to go on the table beside the bookcase.  But that will all happen over the next day or so.

I am having a day off bike riding today.  With the busy day yesterday in quite warm conditions, I reckon I deserve a spell.

Yet another quite warm day is expected today with the temperature to get into the low 30's again.

These temperatures by them selves are fine, the problem comes when you have to do stuff in small rooms or out in the sunshine.  But the pool is quite pleasant.