The end of a busy day

[mdlbear]

Clearing out the office was a much harder job than I had originally estimated, but it's done. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof. There's still a significant pile of spaghetti cable, plus a keyboard, in the corner where my computer was. I ultimately decided, correctly I think, not to take out the whole long arm of the counter but to cut it even with the edge of the window (that extends almost into the corner). I used a thin-bladed pullsaw, and it worked pretty well. There were a couple of screws in the bracing where I wasn't expecting them (I put it together pretty solidly), but it's out.

Total: 29 file boxes, plus 5 or 6 destined for cold storage in the attic. Plus a shelf full of "desktop clutter" that's either actually necessary or urgently needing to be sorted. I think I need to clean out under the kitchen sink and put away the dishes (the dishwasher will be disconnected for the duration); maybe I can do that tomorrow. And I probably ought to disassemble the CD rack.

Did I mention that I'm tired?

Oh, and it looks like something is wrong, or going wrong, with my backup drive -- there were some I/O errors this morning. Need to work out a remote backup scheme for the important stuff.