With me starting to spend more time behind the keyboard, I am making some changes to the home office. The computer desk takes up way too much space, mostly horizontal. A second computer desk in the family room is being used to store computers that don’t do anything. Part of my plan includes removing the large computer desk that I have used for nearly 20 years and moving that tall desk in.
Rearranging the home office is something like working a slider puzzle.
I need the extra floor space so I can set up the aquarium stand that is temporarily taking up space in the family room. Ultimately, I will have the two 29-gallon tanks on this stand in the office, along with a double 10 stand. The Endler’s livebearers in the 46-gallon show tank are still reproducing, so I need to separate the males and females or they will fill the house with water and take over.
The office should be a nice working environment once it’s set up, though I may suffer from a bit of humidity in our hot summer–might need a dehumidifier in the room.
Meanwhile, I have been editing the collaboration story I started about 4 years ago with Ruth Nestvold. That story has come out of hibernation a few other times but has never been declared finished.
The last time I talked about that story was in October of 2008, while I was still using Blogger. Ruth and I have radically different styles and I recall the collaboration being a difficult process for both of us. Still, for something that was started in 2007, we really need to finish it.
I’ve gone through and marked up the manuscript for two things. One is an attempt to reduce the amount of passive prose, and the second is to eliminate some physics issues raised by our readers when we posted the story for critique in Codex a few years ago.
Having just read it through for the first time in a couple of years, the story is more solid than I remembered.