1. Go through those boxes you brought home two weeks ago, and throw
away the perishable items.

2. Put the "work toys" back into the "eventually give these to
grandkids" box.

3. Carry the (Ooomph!) portable library you brought home to the room
where your bookshelves are.

4. Realize you need more bookshelves.

5. Make the hard decision about which books that are currently in the
bookshelves, can be packed up to make space for the books from work,
which MUST be placed near at hand.

6. Realize you need LOTS more bookshelves.

7. Okay, reorganize your scattershot approach to book placement, so
that you no longer have to search through all your book shelves, just
to reread "Eats, Shoots and Leaves".

8. Realize you don't need QUITE as many more bookshelves, as you've
actually freed up some room, and MOST of the removed books fit into
the boxes you brought home.

9. Admire the new organization - .NET; perl; Delphi; Linux; XML (and
related); Photoshop and Illustrator; C/C++, VB and certification
stuff; general reference such as Knuth, the dragon book, and GCC; SQL
and related - all get their own shelves! Java gets moved to the
closet.

10. Promise to get more bookshelves as soon as you get another job.

11. Start working through those four thick certification books that
you always claimed not to have time to work through because of twelve
hour work days.

12. Watch an episode or two on those Highlander DVDs. You bought the
entire six-season set, and have only watched through season one, in
four months.

13. Use that exercise machine that has been gathering dust in the back
room, and which you've stumbled over each time you moved "one of those
boxes" into the closet.

and most importantly,

14. Give your cats all the extra attention that they have been
craving. They love it, and you love it.

Hugs and Purrs,
Mark