End of shift

The Great Room Shift that I spoke of on March 18 in "Call me Arrhidaios" is over, and we're now pronouncing all our vowels differently . . . oh, that was another Great Shift. Toward the end, though, it seemed as though we'd had junk piled in the computer room since 1450.

Aaron's room is now a bathroom/laundry room, the old entryway (which contained the old laundry closet) is now our bedroom, our old bedroom is now Savannah's and Zada's bedroom, and Savannah's and Zada's old bedroom is now Aaron's room. The back door into the entryway was obliterated and a new one placed in the dining room. This confused the dogs, who continued to run into our (new) bedroom and bark for us to open the now nonexistent door as long as the room remained empty. The original bathroom remained a bathroom, but was stripped of all its contents except the tub, replumbed, refitted, and redirected; it now opens into our bedroom instead of the dining room. At last, this weekend, the last wandering stuff found its new homes.

One correction is necessary. The cat box did not remain in its original location, but moved from a distant corner of the living room to the new bathroom/laundry room.