Domestic: Victory over room arrangement!

For a long time now I've had one portable air conditioner in the living room and the other in the bedroom. This works. Except that in this last long hot spell, I had to pretty well abandon the office, and two weeks of basically living in my bedroom got discouraging. I realized last night that it was reminding me of the years when I was pretty much bedbound for real.

The problem with air conditioning the office is a practical one: the air conditioner needs a place to vent to, through a hose that goes into a bracket for window mounting. I've been thinking of this as meaning that it needs a dedicated mounting, something I do at the start of summer and don't undo until fall, and that would cost me access to the back porch and yard if I did it in the office. It finally dawned on me today that it needn't be so, and sure enough, the carton the air conditioner came in provides a fine cover for the gap left between sliding door and frame, taping up and coming down without any fuss.

So now I'm back in my office, with air conditioning, and I am glad.
 

Weekly goals, 2 August 2009

Last week I focused on getting through the week, and it worked. I did get some fun pictures of ice in my bottle, ate satisfactorily, and like that, and did resume work on Project N.

This week I find myself filled with the great desire to get some domestic work done. My wardrobe has never, ever been in a good state of order. I get slovenly and distracted, and end up with piles of clothes and stuff every which way. It's better than usual right now, but I'd like it to be actually good. So I plan to take this week and, while doing the audiobook part of my research, get my clothes for true in proper order. I can see what I'll need to shop for once I have a better sense of what I'm keeping, and get the rest of the discards over to Goodwill.

I don't know if a week will be enough time, but it'll certainly be enough for a good start and an appraisal of the rest.