Today's accomplishment: figuring out what to do with the small piles of things-to-be-put-away-later that had accreted along the far bedroom wall. Electronics gear got put in the appropriate cabinets, letters and other paperwork got filed, stuff that I really didn't need to keep after all got put away, bags collected from conferences and travel were emptied of their contents and put away in the closet on the hook where we keep bags. Bedroom floor is now entirely clutter-free, modulo a bag of laundry that needs to be washed, a hamper of laundry that needs to be folded and put away, two suitcases, my ruck, and a tall skinny box of posters which is currently tucked away behind the door (under the bed would probably also be appropriate).

The same, alas, cannot be said for my desk and dresser, which are presently piled high with stuff that was there before, plus books and CDs and other random things that were recovered from the piles-of-things-to-be-put-away-later. But the point of this little exercise was to make the floor sweepable, which it is, and it has been.

Now I shall cook cheesy beans for lunch (er, I guess it's really dinnertime now, isn't it?), and then I shall fold the clean laundry and put it away, put the contents of the bag-o-dirty into the hamper, and then I shall put/throw away everything cluttering the desk and dresser tops. (Yarn needs a filing system. Oh, Lordy, does yarn ever need a filing system.) Perhaps I shall also wash and dry the hamper-o-dirty. I will also dust. And then, saints be praised, my bedroom will actually be clean.

It also occurs to me that now that the bedroom walls are no longer lined with random crap, I can put up bookshelves and do something about the 13-ish boxes of books that were brought up from south bay and are now in the dining room. If anyone's giving away bookshelves, I'll take 'em...