Stuff
 

As I mentioned in my 'OFFLINE' thread, two weeks ago, after years of no access, I finally cleaned out my storage unit. That's $40 per month I no longer have to pay, and everything I own is now under one roof. I've only unpacked about half the boxes, mainly because I've found everything I was actually looking for. All my naval and aviation books are now on the shelves. The rest is stuff I picked up when I worked at the book distributorship and grabbed things that looked even remotely interesting. After fourteen years I still haven't read most of them.

Anyway, this is how my poor cluttered place looks now.

Books.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...eve/1Books.jpg

Books still in boxes.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...2MoreBooks.jpg

More books.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...lMoreBooks.jpg

Models and games still in boxes. Behind are the guitars, waiting to be set free again.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...sGamesJunk.jpg

The comic collection is in my bedroom, along with the bike. It will go into the storage closet when everything else is unpacked.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ve/5Comics.jpg

The furnace room is also now the model closet. Only about half of those are unpacked, and I'm quickly running out of space.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...delCloset1.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...delCloset2.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...delCloset3.jpg

I plan to buy another bookshelf on the 1st of October, and another one the month after that. I had one that was broken, but when I tried to fix it it just broke some more. It now lives in the trash dumpster.

Well, back to work. :sunny:

That's quite a bit of stuff you have there, and i thought my comic collection was big.

Not a bad collection you have here, hope you get room with everything, :yep:

A bike helmet Steve?

You are too manly for one of them.:D

You are Sailor Steve! You are subsims Chuck Norris.

You do not need helmets to protect you, helmets need you to protect them.:D

I don't quite have the dexterity I used to. The first day I wore it I went down a hill at the University of Utah. At the bottom was a set of steps - only three of them. Instead of pulling back on the handlebars and riding them on the rear wheel, I grabbef for the brakes instead. The bike and I did an end-over and I landed on the sidewalk head first. My first thought was "I just scratched up my brand-new helmet!" My second though was "I didn't just scratch up my tired old head!"

Unfortunately I don't wear it as often as I should.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18

Gory gory, what a hellava way to die.:D

That's a lot of stuff. I think you need to read some more Steve.

Great to see you have your gear out of storage....now when we're on Skype we can both honestly say we're speaking from the 'man cave' :)

I Envy you for your book collection, only slowly building up one of my own.

Nice one, Steve. It's been a long time coming. Now you just need your PC to break again so you can read the books and make the models. :D

:haha:

You could open up your own online hobby shop with all those models.

And what about the two vacuum cleaners? :hmmm:

Vacuum hoarding?:haha:

Needs more books and models. :woot:

I am. I divide my time as carefully as I can.

I've got a few years head start. What amazes me is that I still buy at least one historical reference every month. I'm waiting for the new edition of Burt's British Battleships of World War One to be released. I have taken notes from his British Battlships: 1889-1904, but the WW1 volume has eluded me for years. If it's not out by the first of October I have my eye on Friedman's new British Cruisers of the Victorian Era.

I'm reading plenty, as I seem to have time to spare these days. The models have to wait until I can afford a computer desk. My model-building table is currently doing that job.

Actually it's rather small these days. I started the collection when I worked for a hobby distributor back in the late '70s. I lost more than a hundred to a fire in 1997, many of them very rare.

One of them was in my storage and I couldn't get it home on the train. I bought the second one cheap. It's nice and has cool attachments but the belt is broken so I'm using the older one until I can get a new belt. Then I will either throw or give the old one away. :sunny: