House and Home

Well, amazingly, we managed to get almost everything done in the house before the baby came (comes? He is still not here at this point). Other then further organizing (which will go on until the end of my days), installing the ceiling fan for the master bedroom and stacking the dryer on the washer, we are done! Well, a few other odds and sods, but really mostly done. We are all enjoying being in the new house, more space, fresh starts, quieter streets (don’t even get me started on this - it seems we left just in time).

So, everyone is settling in quite well! And the number of boxes is steadly decreasing! Man, we have a lot of stuff. However, in an effort to reduce it i’m being quite mercyless in my attempts to par it down. My books have taken quite a beating although its oh so easy to fill right back up again - i just got Gibsons latest and Release It, because you can never have to many computer science books! Anyway, the books are the first on the chopping block, my game collection, which has already felt the cuts is up for more. Although it is very hard to get rid of the games. And don’t even talk about my comics, tho really, i’ve only got one comic box of actual comics, all the rest are collections or graphic novels. Well, maybe more then just one box, but hey, its like all of Akira and Nausciaa and Appleseed! How can i get rid of those? (ok, and maybe some other stuff - i swear i got rid of my Rom the Spaceknight and Micronauts!)

I am going to be getting rid of my original Star Trek series VHS’ however - i’ve got all of them. The whole three seasons. Ah columbia house, where are you now? I can’t believe how much i must have paid for all those tapes! But time marches on, and i’m just never going to watch them on VHS again. I thought about digitizing them first, but, really, what a huge pain in the ass. I’ll just buy them, again, on DVD. Takes up so much less room! If you are interested in a whack of ST:TOS VHS tapes, let me know!