[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

But that will take care of that wall, anyway.

It's cool you have it all planned out, at least one wall. I'm stuck waiting for them to remodel this place before I go buy the two more bookcases I want. I have a special DVD rack that just happens to fit perfectly in the little hall between my bedroom and bathroom.

I still don't know where I'll store CDs, but I don't really need them in the office since everything I have on CD has been ripped to my computer and I just listen to stuff on the computer if I want music here.

Same here. All my CDs live in boxes in the closet.

But the call of my Inner Librarian is very, very loud.

I question whether I really need two new cases. It still won't be enough and the plan has always been to read books and then give them away. Still, plans never seem to work out, so who knows?

Time just gets away from me and I feel hungry but I keep putting it off until I get "one more thing" done but that thing always leads to ten others and before I know it I'm dropping into bed and suddenly realize that my tummy is all rumbly.

The four years I worked at the book warehouse I had trouble with my weight. No matter how hard I worked I just couldn't seem to get rid of it. Then I worked four years driving skiers around and I started losing weight. I finally realized that at the warehouse I would eat breakfast, get a burrito off the truck, go out to lunch, eat another snack at break time and then go home and have dinner. Driving I would get a sandwich and soda at 7-11 at 0300 and then head for my first pickup. After three trips up the mountain I would start to get hungry. I would chide myself for eating when I was just sitting all day (the carrying luggage part didn't count), then realize it was 1300 and I hadn't eaten for ten hours! I wish I could go do that again.

Ikea has "add on" units that match their cases that give you another 12" of of storage space if your ceilings are high enough.

I use cheap bookends for the tops.

The only drawback is that I really, really want to put cabinet lighting on top of the cases that will be plugged into the hotswitched wall outlet, so they would all come on and illuminate the cases when you walk in the room and flip the switch.

That sounds cool. Not something I would do, but still cool. I used to have a favorite lamp. It was extendable, and pressure-screwed to the floor and ceiling. It had three lamps at different levels. Two made for good backlighting and the third was just the right height for reading.

Thor and Iron Man and Buzz Lightyear in a Staples box forever and since this is Geek Central for the condo they belong in here anyway.

The only action figures I own are a Green Arrow and Black Canary I picked up back in my comic-shop days. They live in boxes though, since I found I don't really care as much as I did at the time.

Oh, see, I use the TV for background noise and "company" a lot of the time.

I've never been able to do that. I listen to an album on my first trip through Subsim every morning, and then kick myself because I didn't hear half of it, and I put in music so I can listen to it. Then again I'm so tired these days that if do nothing but listen I'll fall asleep and miss it anyway.