Scattered Thoughts . . .

S ince Sheila is back working from home for the foreseeable future again due to the devastating flooding in Montpelier, she decided we need to do something about her office chair.  She's been using an upholstered side chair since the beginning of the pandemic but she found that chair uncomfortable and it was bothering her back so it was time to do something about finding her a more comfortable chair. We briefly looked at options for a "standing desktop" but those would raise her monitors too much when in the sitting position at her desk so we nixed that idea rather quickly.   We were back to trying to decide on a new office chair that Sheila would find comfortable.  It didn't matter whether nine out of ten people found a particular chair comfortable.  We needed to find one that Sheila finds comfortable.  Buying online is our primary option here in Vermont and has been for decades.  The choices locally are extremely slim and always have been.  This applies to just abou

Sheila now has a completed new home office! I've been working on the room and building a desk over the past two or three weeks.  The long wall of the room had significant water damage so fixing that was my first task.  My plan has been to remove half of that wall, install a beam, and open it up to a desk area of all windows that juts out into our yard. Until now, I hadn't repaired any of the water damage so that was the top priority.  The need for a home office presented itself so the wall needed to be repaired at least temporarily.   I spackled the damaged wall...  three coats...  then two coats of paint...  then trimmed out the windows which were never trimmed when installed (windows were installed by the previous homeowner many years ago)...  added some crown molding...  then started working on the desk. If you've been following this blog, then you know that we had originally ordered a desk online.  A few days after placing the order, we were notified that the desk was b

Sheila and I are in the process of moving her workstation from our kitchen table to her own home office in what used to be referred to as our 'train room'.  The trains are all on shelves now and the room has been cleared of clutter in preparation of Sheila's new desk and office. The legs and supports for the new desk. Sheila received word that she'll be working from home for the foreseeable future so we figured it was time to move her out of the kitchen and into her own working space.  Converting a room to a home office was quite an undertaking since we are still in the process of renovating the house little by little and this is a very small house with no 'extra room'.  Making a clean spot is like a giant tile game of sliding numbered tiles one space at a time to free up space elsewhere on the board.  That is what we had to do to make a clean spot for Sheila and my spine is in no condition to do things like this anymore! The process of designing and building he