Well this weekend has been a little hectic. Spent Saturday shopping for some new shelves and a dresser at Ikea. I bought 2 shelves and a Dresser, and then proceeded to spent the afternoon and early evening building them.

Building these things should be easy, provided you have unlimited space to build. I had to build my shelves in my office, where I was going to use them, and have so much junk in there it was difficult to put the things together. The only saving grace was the cordless screwdriver which is a must have for these exact situations. Especially when it involves putting screws directly into wood.

Of course I have to disconnect and move all of my computer equipment too, because I have to move my office desk about 6 inches to the left to be able to put a shelf on each side of my desk.

All said and done, I am glad I did it, as I have been able to move a lot of books from the floor to their proper place in the shelves now.

I still have a ways to go to get my office in order, but I'm getting there.

Also I spent a few hours on Friday swapping hard drives. I bought a Maxtor 160GB drive more than a few weeks ago, and had problems from the day I bought it. I almost lost all of my data twice once from a huge number of bad sectors, and the second from the Partition Table getting corrupted. Fortunately I was able to save the corrupted Partition Table by buying a piece of software off the internet which saved countless hours of grief. I will say that I am happy that Maxtor replace my 160GB drive with a 200GB drive. So that somewhat lessons the pain and agony I had to go though. (Well not really, but I can always use an extra 40GB of space...)

So on top of all of this I have been having problems with my Cable Modem. Services has been very bad since Tuesday. I have not been able to connect to the internet for 3 days. Then it mysteriously started working 30 minutes before the Technician called on Friday. Fortunately he came out anyways, ran some tests, and decided that it was the Cable Companies fault. So connectivity has continued to be spotty throughout the weekend. I sure hope they fix this problem this coming week! I can saw that since I moved to Campbell my broadband connectivity to the internet has be sub-par. I started with Reality Wireless and they were just starting up then, but were not ready to accept customers... I switched to Broadband Now the second they became available in my apartment complex and had no problems until they were bought by Interquest. Since Interquest I have once again been plagued by connectivity problems. I wish I had other choices... I can't get DSL because the CO (Central Office) is too far away. Dunno if they have made any changes since, but might be worth while for me to look again...

Anyways I am packing for my trip back to Minneapolis. I leave tomorrow afternoon.