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I moved “the office” back downstairs today. Since late 2006 I’ve worked from the ballroom on Fridays, but for some reason I was finding it increasingly difficult to get in the zone up there. It never really felt like an office/den/study, but we were using the downstairs room first as storage for all of Peter & Christine’s boxes, then as a fifth bedroom at Christmas time when everyone was here. Well we don’t need 5 bedrooms anymore so on Tuesday night I moved the bed and other bits of furniture into the garage (I’ll put them away properly at some point), and brought the desk, laptop and monitor down so that I could work from home on Wednesday. Then this afternoon Jayne and I lugged the bookcases down and I brought the rest of the computer gear down and set things up properly.

I’ve set it up so that the desk is adjacent to the window rather than facing it (I can look to my right and gaze dreamily at our garden - but not too often), the G3 iMac that I use as a music and print server is directly behind me, and I even have a 3-piece suite to lounge on if I feel like reading something in a comfy chair.

Also tonight I decided to decorate the walls with some of the CDs that have sat unused in a bookcase since I bought my first iPod four years ago. I reckon they look pretty good!