So I’ve had these wooden shelving parts from Ikea sitting around in my apartment for a few months, and last week finally got the vital corner shelves that I need (though it now turns out I miscalculated the number of vertical stand pieces I need, so I’ll have to go back to Ikea at some point to finish this thing). I’ve spent the past couple hours carefully propping parts up against each other and screwing them together, and now I’ve got half of a corner unit sitting on its side taking up a good lot of living room real estate. And my right thumb hurts from pushing against the wrench. And I’m not quite sure how I’m gonna get the rest of the corner unit pieces incorporated into what I’ve built. But it’s some kind of progress.