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I finally settled on going with the cheapie laminate from Lowe’s. Including the underlayment and taxes it was $150. My brother David helped me put down the majority of it last week… spare a box and a strip against the wall with the current aquarium. I’ve decided that I would wait until the new one is up and running before finishing the floor so that the fish are only moved once. I strongly recommend to avoid frustration to go with something a bit more… expensive. Once I figured out the ‘right’ way to “click” the panels together it was okay, but that way didn’t resemble the instructions at all; the panels also never actually clicked… agh!

It’s quite weird though, which the new floor, how gigantic it made the room. I decided to get a few new pieces of furniture, an example of one thing leading to another. It was more of an upgrade in a sense. That giant blue table was getting to be a bit too worn out, plus the colour wasn’t so great. The bookcase was a bit worn and also a bit too small, and of course that blue little cart I’d put my computer on, well… it was nearly falling apart. So, I bought a new table top, new bookcase, and a new cart. This time they’re all the same colour, heh… they also fit rather nicely together. In a way, even though I have a much smaller table top, I have more room; I can now put the plants on the bookcase so that saves tons of space. I also gained roughly two square feet with the new little computer cart; it nicely holds my subwoofer, the computer, shredder… and on top the laser printer. I’m rather pleased with it.

I’m going to do away with the giant and ugly four drawer filing cabinet, moving it downstairs into the “storage room.” Once that and the smaller aquarium are out of the way I think I’ll be getting another bookcase, but this time a tall one.

Oh, I should say that the new office furniture purchases were mostly financed by converting my giant jar of pocket change into usable currency… so in a way it was free… but only in a way.

After I hit my head for the third or fourth time on the shelves near the door I finally took those down. I put the books on the bookcase (shock!), but I still haven’t found a place for the “stuff” that was on the other two shelves. I’m really working diligently on de-cluttering, and I’m getting there, but I still have a lot of “stuff” that needs to find a permanent place.

The last two or three nights I’ve been awaken multiple times by the server going haywire. I finally confirmed my suspicion, so hopefully my extra defenses will work, but if I ever get my hands on anyone that even remotely works with automated comment spam attacks I’ll slit their throats… or stab them in the eye with a pencil, probably both. I just also want to confirm that the commenting system of Movable Type is the worst software that has ever been written in the history of writing software.