I was ready to start. The flooring was complete. My wife and I started putting items away and preparing the game room. Then she grabbed a tape measure. She put on her thinking face. Then she put on her I’m sorry face.

Short story. I have a lot more work to do, long story below.

My hobby room has been a sore spot for her. Items I own consistently drift into the game room and every other room in the house. She looked at my hobby room. Where I keep most models, I do my painting, the magic collection is in there. Then she looked at the game room. A much larger room, but it does not have a door. “What if we put the books from the game room into your hobby room, made it a reading room and all your shit can go into the game room?”

I have a lot of shit. 42 lf of floor to ceiling shelves, plus a few piles and stacks of boxes and the like. We have worked about 14 hours on emptying my hobby room, and we are still incomplete. Four more hours to go. Then we have to organize and put about 10,000 volumes of books into the new reading room. Then, I have to restructure the hobby/game room. Build a new painting station. Put everything back on shelves in the game room. Finish the front den area where most board games are kept, requiring all new Billy Shelves from Ikea. Add a new entertainment center. Then, finally, I have to finish the guest bedroom. Building the new bed frame, etc. All before the first of March. Two weekends away, one of which we will be out of town for. Bleh.

I am very pleased to have the new space. It will work better for everything. It is just a lot of work. The campaign is delayed. I won’t have much time to hobby and paint, but it will begin. It will be awesome. Plan on updates.