I think I found my new home!

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I question whether I really need two new cases

See, I never question whether or not I need new bookcases. The problem always was: where to put them? Now I least I don't have that problem... until I run out of shelf space again. That could take a while. Well, we'll see what happens when I get all the books unpacked. They were split up between so many different cases in two different rooms before, I have no idea how much actual shelf space they'll take up when they're all together. Mostly together, as I will probably put martial arts books in the "training room" I'm planning for the upstairs and possibly put the music books on a little shelf I've got set aside for the music room if and when that ever happens. But those are a very small percentage of what I've got.

I use cheap bookends for the tops.

That's what I've always done, just used the top of a bookcase as an additional shelf if possible. It leaves open the possibility of putting things besides books up there, and bookends are cheap if you want to put books all the way across.

That sounds cool. Not something I would do, but still cool.

The reason I want to do it in here is that there is no overhead light and once it gets dark out I think it will be hard to really see what's on the shelves with just a lamp in one spot that's all the way across the room from one of the cases. I'll have a lamp on the desk but I only turn that on when I'm reading or writing something at the desk itself. I like the idea of flipping the switch and having what are essentially small spotlights shining down the front of each case. It will light up the majority of the room but not be a big glaring light that's being reflected by my computer monitor.

If I decide to use the tops of some of the cases for "display" purposes I may also put some LED lights along the top that shine up so Buzz and Thor can be seen in all their glory. On a related note, I probably need to stay off the Ikea website for a while, because it keeps giving me too many ideas that I don't have time for right now.

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Oh and if you need a toilet, there's a bucket in the corner. Just be sure to dump it into the crawlspace when you're done.

Lol, with three bathrooms I have no shortage of toilets. What I don't have are freakin' trash cans! I now have three times as many places where I'm likely to end up with trash in my hand and in need of some place to toss it, and so far I only have trash cans in the two bathrooms I actually use. My kitchen trash can is out on the patio because I need to rinse out the liner and I thought it would be easiest to put some dish detergent in the there and then run a little water into it from the spigot out there and swish it around good and then just dump it down the drain in the driveway. But of course I haven't gotten to that yet, I've just been opening a trash bag and tucking it down inside a box sitting on the kitchen floor.

[Red October1984]

I need a new bookcase bad. I'm switching rooms in the house this summer and I'll finally have enough room for my books. I have book lining the back of my shelf, on top of that layer, in front of that line and on top of the second one to the point that I can't fit anything more in there. I have books hanging on by a thread...and I keep getting more.

I have to stack them beside my shelf now.

Frau, there's tons of things you can use for trash cans. You just need a bit of redneck ingenuity. If there's a way, we'll find it. (There are actually people within 15 minutes of my house that use buckets as toilets...They live down by the sewage lagoon of all places. )

I recommend a two layered plastic bag attached to a bent coat hangar. Bend it in a circle and wrap the bags around it like the rim of a can. If you want you could make a frame too....but it's probably easier just to hang it somewhere easily accessible. It makes for a quick, easy, disposable trash can.

[frau kaleun]

Oh, I'm real good at making do with what's on hand. Right now I tend to just hang a bag on whatever's handy and toss stuff in there. I've got a plastic grocery bag hanging out of one corner of a drawer next to my desk right now, because I'm going through receipts and paperwork and mail and deciding what can be tossed and what needs to be kept and filed away somewhere.

The problem is not that I don't have trash cans, it's that there are only three that are unpacked AND I know where they are. And one of them is out on the patio waiting to be rinsed out, so that's inconvenient. The other two are in two of the bathrooms and they are not so convenient when I'm several rooms away trying to get something done and suddenly find my hands full of stuff that needs to be thrown out.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

See, I never question whether or not I need new bookcases.

I wouldn't either, except for the part where ten of the things wouldn't hold the books I currently have in boxes. What I need to do is get rid of the books I don't need. I promised myself that I was going to read the books I picked up while working at the book warehouse and then get rid of them. That was fifteen years ago, and I've read maybe one percent of them.

I've just been opening a trash bag and tucking it down inside a box sitting on the kitchen floor.

I have a small trash can by my model building table and a medium one by the computer. None in the bathroom. I used to have a big 13-gallon can with a lid for the kitchen, but it disappeared during my last bout with rental storage (I think my old roommate ended up with it - we shared a storage space for a few months). I've been using a big kitchen bag on the floor for almost two years now, since I didn't have a car to go to Wal*Mart. Now I'm wating on this remodelling thing. I don't even put it in a box.

[frau kaleun]

Went to the post office this morning and sent the keys back Express Mail, with delivery guaranteed for tomorrow.

Then I swung by Walmart to pick up some eats and drinks and few other things... saw this as I was in the housewares section looking for shelf liner.



Apparently the local merchants have already been informed of my prowess in the kitchen.

Got home around noon and ate a little something and got things ready for the cable installation and now I'm just sitting here waiting on them to call to say they're on their way. The window was 2-3 PM and I've heard nothing yet, they were supposed to call 1/2 hour before arrival so I'm getting a little antsy. I'm trying to remember if there was supposed to be some kind of confirmation other than today's phone call but I don't think so, at any rate I haven't gotten anything.

I am so tired, I feel like I could lay down and not get up for a week. When I got up this morning even just moving was a chore. No, scratch that, just standing straight up was a chore. Taking a shower didn't help either. All I want to do right now is go to sleep, c'mon Mr. Cable Installer, let's get this over with. FRAU KALEUN IS GETTING CRANKY AND NEEDS A NAP!

Edit: Yay! He just called and will be here in about 15 minutes.

[Jimbuna]

Another result then

Just think, in no time at all you'll be all done and everything will have been worthwhile...or so the saying goes

[Wolferz]

It's all good. Unless the cable guy is named Larry or Jim Carrey or Larry Carrey.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

It's all good. Unless the cable guy is named Larry or Jim Carrey or Larry Carrey.

Weeeeellllll looks like ya'll need a proper cable guy. Look no further than Larry.

[frau kaleun]

So the cable guy - who was very nice - looked everywhere and couldn't find whatever box outside he needed to get into to get me hooked up. Maybe no one who lived here ever had cable, I dunno. He even called the property management company and they said no one there knew where it was either.

So he called Time Warner and someone's going to call me tomorrow morning and come out later in the day to do whatever they have to do to tap me into the cable lines out here.

Oh well, at least I'm on vacation and will be home.