I had been talking with my wife about long term organizational plans… The bookshelves in the library are 30 year old, bending, crappy plywood that need to be replaced, and my plan was:

  1. Clean out the back bedroom.

  2. Get new bookshelves for the library that are taller, wider, and will add over 200 linear inches of shelf space.

Current library:

  1. Figure out how many of the old bookshelves can be moved into the back bedroom (four! four bookshelves! Ah ha ha! Maybe 5 if I get super lucky.)

  2. Put the empties in the back bedroom for more DVD storage, then fix the wall they sit in front of because I hate that wall treatment (long story).

Ugly ass-wall:

(It was like that when we bought the house, loved the house, HATED that wall. I need to pull down the plywood slats and re-paint to get rid their janky ass-wainscoting.)

https://xkcd.com/37/

  1. Put together the new racks and re-assemble the library.

All told, a lot of work. My plan was to do all this a little at a time over a period of months.

WELL… Our kid asked my wife what he should get for Christmas.

Turns out… 5 new bookshelves show up TOMORROW.

I can’t be mad… it’s a gift. But holy hell… I wasn’t ready to start the project TOMORROW.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      I was thinking around the outer edge of whatever separates the circle from the wall, so the illumination comes from behind.

      Edit: on a second look, I might’ve been mistaken.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        18 hours ago

        Yeah, the pattern makes it intentionally hard to tell. It’s a vacuum formed plastic square with 4 circles.