Success!

My computer is now in the basement! Saturday night I put the trim around the walls and then started arranging things down here. I'm getting a loveseat and two chairs from Stef, so I arranged that to go around where I'll have a TV. I decided not to get cable down here (probably, at least for winter) but I'll put the DVD/VCR as well as the stereo down here. That means once I get a TV I'll have to swap entertainment centers. So one end of the room is the entertainment area and the other end is the office. Today I moved out a book shelf and filled it up (wow, I have lots of books) and also went through the storage room and pulled out a bunch of pictures I'll eventually hang up. It looks so good! :)

Then the morbid me... I've been watching all this coverage about Hurricane Katrina all day. Earlier they were talking about people in Mississippi and Alabama probably losing their crops due to the amount of rainfall they were expecting. That really makes me sad; they're struggling to get by in the first place, and then something this devastating happens. But the disaster freak in me is really excited (well, excited may not be the right word for it...) to see what happens to New Orleans. Last year when I think Ivan almost hit it directly, I really wanted to see how bad the flooding was and if it was really going to be as bad as they made it sound. Now it's about to happen. I know so many people are going to lose their homes and livelihoods...but I'm curious.