Well, it's official.  After many, many hours of hard work I'm finally almost done.  What started out about 7 years ago to be a simple "finish the basement" project is now to the point where I can sit back and look at the fruits of my labors.  In reality, the project didn't take too long to complete (a few months at best), but the fact that the months were spread out over several years made it a tad frustrating and far too lengthy (sounds like some software projects).  In all, I (with the occasional help of family and friends) added about 1300 sq feet to the house consisting of 1) a bedroom, 2) a home theatre/recreation room, 3) a storage room, 4) a craft room, and 5) and office (with an adjoining bathroom)

I guess the reason I'm blogging this is today marks the first day where I'm actually in the new office and working.  Over the weekend I was able to get all of the electrical work done in the basement.  Sure, there are still some loose ends to finish.  I still have a little touch-up painting to do.  I still have to wire up the ethernet, speaker wires, and cable lines.  But it's functional and that's the key.

Prior to today I was taking up a small, much needed bedroom upstairs as my office.  It was filled to the gills with books, papers, boxes - in short, it was a constant and complete wreck.  Moving from a small 11'x11' room to a 13'x23' room is SOOO liberating - and long past due.  I don't have any furniture down here yet.  In fact, my 'desk' is a piece of particle board sitting atop some food storage boxes.  So I'm sitting here on the floor :)  I'm anxious to get started building my desk - I've had this affinity my entire life for custom woodworking/carpentry, and that's a project I've long been anticipating and planning.

Anyway, this long, extended, after-hours project has led to me not having any time for "coding for fun" as all of my free time since December has been consumed in finishing the project.  Many of my personal projects had been put on hold to see the basement project come to completion.  I hope to see that change somewhat over the next few weeks.

...Almost done :)