Progress

This was the first weekend in a million years where there was actually time to get something done around the house -- and I was sick as a dog. Actually, I'd been fighting illness all week - one of those feverish, migraine-laden, sore-throat kind of illnesses that suck the energy right out of the body and reduce the brain to mush.

Quite frankly, I didn't want to do anything. Except maybe watch television and sleep. Not necessarily in that order.

But my lovely wife had more than enough energy to make up for it. She tackled the basement and the second-floor bedrooms and made lots and lots of progress.

Adam helped, too.  He actually got all his stuff down in his new basement room!

Who needs closets when there's a floor?

Adam's bed in the corner

Custom-designed shelving by Grandpa Green

Because Adam and Cheryl were able to get most of Adam's stuff downstairs, Cheryl was able to get all of her office equipment out of the front room (I'm still not sure what to call it) and up to Adam's old bedroom, which is now The Office.

Cheryl's office!

Of course, it took a little bit of doing to get the last bit of bedroom furniture out, which was one of the bunk-beds; its' mate was in Deb's old bedroom, now the Sewing Room. So we had to find all the parts needed to bunk the beds, then take the bed apart so we could move it over to the Sewing Room and then put them both back together.

The last vestiges of Adam's old room

Now we are prepared for the eventual appearance of visiting family. Or just guests. Short guests. Whose feet don't stick out the other end of the bed. Or perhaps just adventurous young people who want to relive their childhood.

For now, they're just being used for "matress storage".

Blast from the Past: Bunked Beds!

Meanwhile, I finally got to move my rolling computer cart out of the basement study and put together some semblance of an office myself. So Cheryl and I can be in the same office! What fun!

A place for Dad's office

Now that all the work was done, it was time for a nap. In the basement. On the futon. Which has been very carefully placed in the corner, out of the way. With a radio on the shelf playing classical music (or soft jazz). Some soft pillows. A warm Afghan.

Futon in the Corner Pocket

I am so ready for a nap now!

End of February Wrap-Up

It's been a stressful month.

On the work front, we were supposed to complete our "Dry Runs" of the software last week, do a little bit of cleanup, then move on to the "Formal" testing next week and be done with it.

Things did not go as planned.

The software isn't done yet. The test procedures and scripts are having issues. And the project is essentially out of money and already way behind schedule. But the Project Manager keeps pushing us to keep to the schedule. And if there is one thing I hate more than anything else, it is being rushed.

Being rushed causes mistakes. Being rushed causes stress. Being rushed shortens life.

On the home front, we're still trying to finish up the basement. We started this project over two years ago. We had hoped it would be done far sooner, but it hasn't.

Now Adam is living downstairs in his new room. Cheryl has been hanging drapes. Soon we'll start finishing up the work with some trim.

And it's almost March.

Where has the time gone?

It was sixty degrees outside today. But I didn't get a chance to enjoy it because I was sick in bed the whole day.

And we're supposed to get snow on Thursday or Friday.

I am so ready for Spring!