it is good to be home
Jul. 29th, 2011 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaThe trip home took more than 48 hours, but I managed to get enough naps on the flights that I was feeling ok when I finally landed in Luleå yesterday early afternoon. It was so good to be home, and back in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
archinonlive's arms again that I didn't bother to set up or turn on my computer at all yesterday.
I came home to a house in chaos, sincearchinonlive had started to do some re-arranging of furniture while I was gone, got part way through, and then wound up spending a bunch of days at the home of his brother working on projects there instead of finishing the job. However, this is a good thing, since once of my favourite things to do is rearrange furniture, and it is even more fun when I have someone to share the project with.
This morning we got the computer corner of the bedroom set up in a much better way than it had been. We took out and took apart the desk, set the drafting table where the desk had been, and set up his desktop computer under the drafting table, and put his three monitors on that. Then we put the monitor arm for my second monitor on the side of the drafting table, and put my recliner next to it, in the corner of the room, facing into the room. I can now work with the computer in my lap, and the second monitor right next to it, and a comfortable height. While we were at it we also downloaded a new driver for my graphics card, which makes it possible to tell the computer that the second monitor has been rotated 90 degrees, to the portrait orientation. Since this monitor is much wider than it is tall (using the pre-rotated sense of direction), it works Much better this way. Before if I opened a word document or pdf on that monitor I could see only a few lines of text if I set it to a "page-width" display. Now I get the entire page in "page width" display *and* the text is larger!
The room feels much less cramped with only one desk in here, and now that I am in the corner facing out, we can look at one another while we are on the computer. Even better, my feet are within his reach, so he can massage my feet while he watches things on his computer screen (which he is doing as I type--life is good!).
We have just under a week to do any other house-rearranging and projects we might want to accomplish before we leave for the Medieval Week in Visby, during which time we also need to pack and organize what we are bringing (and it had better be a minimum of stuff, since we are taking our car, which is not huge) and cook food to bring with us. As soon as we get back from that event it will be time for him to return to work, and I can start seriously looking for something resembling an income myself. Not that we need two incomes to support us as things are now, but it would be nice to move from the slightly too small apartment into a house, and if we are doing that, it would be nice to own the house, and if we want to do that, we need a second income to build up some additional savings first...
But now I am tired and need to do my yoga before I go to bed...
archinonlive's arms again that I didn't bother to set up or turn on my computer at all yesterday.I came home to a house in chaos, since
archinonlive had started to do some re-arranging of furniture while I was gone, got part way through, and then wound up spending a bunch of days at the home of his brother working on projects there instead of finishing the job. However, this is a good thing, since once of my favourite things to do is rearrange furniture, and it is even more fun when I have someone to share the project with.This morning we got the computer corner of the bedroom set up in a much better way than it had been. We took out and took apart the desk, set the drafting table where the desk had been, and set up his desktop computer under the drafting table, and put his three monitors on that. Then we put the monitor arm for my second monitor on the side of the drafting table, and put my recliner next to it, in the corner of the room, facing into the room. I can now work with the computer in my lap, and the second monitor right next to it, and a comfortable height. While we were at it we also downloaded a new driver for my graphics card, which makes it possible to tell the computer that the second monitor has been rotated 90 degrees, to the portrait orientation. Since this monitor is much wider than it is tall (using the pre-rotated sense of direction), it works Much better this way. Before if I opened a word document or pdf on that monitor I could see only a few lines of text if I set it to a "page-width" display. Now I get the entire page in "page width" display *and* the text is larger!
The room feels much less cramped with only one desk in here, and now that I am in the corner facing out, we can look at one another while we are on the computer. Even better, my feet are within his reach, so he can massage my feet while he watches things on his computer screen (which he is doing as I type--life is good!).
We have just under a week to do any other house-rearranging and projects we might want to accomplish before we leave for the Medieval Week in Visby, during which time we also need to pack and organize what we are bringing (and it had better be a minimum of stuff, since we are taking our car, which is not huge) and cook food to bring with us. As soon as we get back from that event it will be time for him to return to work, and I can start seriously looking for something resembling an income myself. Not that we need two incomes to support us as things are now, but it would be nice to move from the slightly too small apartment into a house, and if we are doing that, it would be nice to own the house, and if we want to do that, we need a second income to build up some additional savings first...
But now I am tired and need to do my yoga before I go to bed...
