Daley Ponderings

My friends Bonnie and Liz participated in the last Challenge, and quite intimidated me by doing so.  But I put OrgJunkie's blog in my reader (one of only three strangers' blogs I read) and have slowly been gaining confidence.  The real enouragement I give myself is to note what I can accomplish in little bits at a time.  Whenever I feel like I can't do it, I can point myself to an area that's working (like my system for kids' clothes) and realize that though I have far to go, I've also come far from where I was (or could be!)

I'm entering our computer room as a family organizational effort.  This is the place where I do all my computer work, including personal and Lime Daley finances.  We also have a tall shelf full of toys for the boys to play with while I am working.  The bigger closet is for Jon's "computer stuff."  This includes many pieces, parts, cases, hard drives, cables, wires, etc.  The extra monitors don't fit in the closet, so they are on the floor in the room.  Jon has successfully put together working computers in the past, but has decided that it's time to give the parts to Goodwill.  Added to the pile last summer was Jon's childhood appleIIe and accessories, including boxes of 5 1/4" floppy disks.
 The computer will be for our children to learn programming on, but it has to be organized and set up if it's going to be useful in that way.  Oh yes, one more.  The new server (clementine) for Lime Daley is on a card table in the middle of the room.

This room is not as bad as it could be.  For example, I already planned and implemented a reorg of my work space, for which Jon made a nifty shelf.  But there is still plenty of work to be done, and the added challenge of getting the futon clear for Grammy and Papa to sleep on Veterans' Day weekend.

The general game plan is: 

1. Clear out half the big closet, donating to Goodwill.  Half the closet will be for Jon's useful stuff.

2. Reduce and organize the toys such that they fit in the other half of the above closet.

3. clementine goes to the colocation building.

4. Revamp the filing cabinet which I had revamped previously to a system that doesn't work well for anyone.

5. Last and least, but the room wouldn't be complete without it, organizing the upper shelf of the copy closet.

A lot of work, but we're all working together as a team, which is always greater than the sum of our parts.