I Suck At Creating A Shelf

The good news: I created a shelf today.

The bad news: I suck at creating a shelf.

For some time, I have been wanting to organize the cable monstrosity contained within my storage closet. In my closet resides the router and some other device used to send information about my solar panels. In addition, there are cables upon cables (ethernet, coaxial, etc.) because there is a panel located in the closet just for... cables. I had added that panel because, being the stupid tech person that I am, I wanted to network the house.

Anyway, what bothered me the most was the fact that the Verizon FiOS router that was given to me by Verizon was too large for the panel. From the beginning, the router has always been large. The router literally just dangled within the panel that houses all of the cables. And then with our recent addition of the solar panel device (which also has been dangling), I said enough is enough. Enter the shelf.

Needless to say, I made a brief pitstop at my favorite sister-in-law's (Janine) to use their drill press today. A few holes later and voila: shelf.

Truth be told, it's not the greatest floating shelf. I actually need to make the shelf deeper, but for now, it will do until I make a newer one to replace it. All in all, I don't think the floating shelf was that bad considering it was my first time making one. But at least now, the cables are more organized and the router can rest on the shelf instead of dangling within the panel.

Of course, this probably now opens up a whole slew of other home improvement projects...