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Last night I started the process of cleaning up my room. My room is rather like my mind - full of all kinds of things, and probably a zone of mortal danger to anyone who enters without permission, believing themselves capable of navigating without losing their sanity. It's amazing what you rack up when you're not paying attention.
- All the trash I hauled out was paper or plastic-based, which is not a surprise. My room might be a mess, but I don't bring anything that could go biologically active on me into it - I have Problems with the idea of growing mold or worse in my sleeping space. All my trash is just trash, not a stratum for life.
- I bought a CD tower and a DVD tower last night in order to sort out my collections a bit. The DVD tower holds 40 cases; the CD tower, 120. I'd almost bought the 100 one, but then I saw they were both the same price. What the heck, why not. Turns out it was a good thing, I seem to have roughly that many music CDs alone in my possession. I don't think I'm going to get rid of the rotating turntable-thing that I used for my CD storage before. The computer CD's can go there, I have a hell of a time finding them as it stands and the wire-mesh basket I was using to hold them is a bit difficult to get things out of.
- My penchant for gaming books is way worse than I thought. I bought a plastic chest of drawers so as to organize the books I wanted on hand immediately, rather than in the closet or on the shelf or in the cabinet or on the other set of shelves. Currently, the bottom-most drawer contains: Hacklopedia of Beasts volumes 1-5 and 7 (6 is at large somewhere in my room as I haven't finished cleaning yet), The Complete Guide to Dwarves, The Complete Priest's Handbook (both 2nd ed AD&D), the Hackmaster 4th Ed Player's Guide and GM's Guide, Mage 2nd Edition, Werewolf 3rd Edition, the Book of Worlds, the 3rd Ed Akashic Brotherhood Tradition Book, and possibly one other Mage book. Mage: The Sorceror's Crusade is on one of my shelves rather than in the drawers, and the rest of my gaming books are in the closet as I rarely use them.
- My Sinophilia's even worse. The chest of drawers currently contains: Journey to the West Volumes 1-4 (Anthony C. Yu, translator), Records of the Grand Historian: Qin-Han, Volume 1 by Sima Qian, Science in Traditional China by Joseph Needham (the little bitty 134-page lecture compendium rather than the multivolume encyclopedia), a Chinese-English dictionary, My First 100 Words in Chinese, The Classic of Mountains and Seas, two Barry Hughart novels (Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone - Eight Skilled Gentlemen is on my desk instead), and one of Helen Chen's Chinese cookbooks. The DVD rack includes Shaolin Soccer, Enter the Fat Dragon, My Father is a Hero, Wheels On Meals (which was nowhere near as much fun as I was expecting, by the way), Once Upon a Time in China, and Deadly China Hero. And then there's the Stephen Chow VCD's that'll be in the CD rack just as soon as I get home and get them in order; also the CD of Chinese violin music I bought at the Asia Society's gift shop. And the Talk Now! Learn to Speak Mandarin program cd. And the poster of Imperial Bodyguard Zhanyinbao from the Met, which was on sale for $5 and always looked really cool to me. Not to mention the Ken Hom cookbook on the shelves (my very first Chinese cookbook, I originally borrowed it from the library and loved it so much I had to buy my own copy so that I could stain it without worry), or any of the Chinese cookbooks people have given me as gifts over the years, or Outlaws of the Marsh, which is right next to Three Kingdoms, the abridged version. And, of course, the green jacket (which is, oddly, the exact same shade of green as the last volume of Journey to the West) - and the other books, which are on various shelves and haven't been seen in a while. There's at least one copy of the Tao te Ching, translated from the Mawangtui texts, and somewhere around here is a hardcover Art of War that I haven't read in ages.
My only excuse is a weakly pathetic mention that I've been at this for years and have had time to accumulate a great deal of stuff. Even so, well... it's a little unnerving. I suppose it's at least somewhat less so than my RL buddy's Giant Farking Collection of Godzilla Toys, which has a room all to itself and could probably finance a kidney transplant if he sold it all (he takes excellent care of his stuff, especially the Japanese-only limited edition toys). Kind of odd to look at my stuff and realize just how much of it is concentrated in certain areas. Hopefully this will prove to be a good thing.
(Side note: if you ever feel compelled to buy me a birthday present or Hogswatch present or something, I am not sufficiently unnerved to say no to more stuff along these lines. I don't own the Analects yet, but there's no way I'm gonna read Dream of the Red Chamber or whatever the hell the title is.)
Today's pulp survival tip is #163: Giant animals were never meant to be kept as pets.
- All the trash I hauled out was paper or plastic-based, which is not a surprise. My room might be a mess, but I don't bring anything that could go biologically active on me into it - I have Problems with the idea of growing mold or worse in my sleeping space. All my trash is just trash, not a stratum for life.
- I bought a CD tower and a DVD tower last night in order to sort out my collections a bit. The DVD tower holds 40 cases; the CD tower, 120. I'd almost bought the 100 one, but then I saw they were both the same price. What the heck, why not. Turns out it was a good thing, I seem to have roughly that many music CDs alone in my possession. I don't think I'm going to get rid of the rotating turntable-thing that I used for my CD storage before. The computer CD's can go there, I have a hell of a time finding them as it stands and the wire-mesh basket I was using to hold them is a bit difficult to get things out of.
- My penchant for gaming books is way worse than I thought. I bought a plastic chest of drawers so as to organize the books I wanted on hand immediately, rather than in the closet or on the shelf or in the cabinet or on the other set of shelves. Currently, the bottom-most drawer contains: Hacklopedia of Beasts volumes 1-5 and 7 (6 is at large somewhere in my room as I haven't finished cleaning yet), The Complete Guide to Dwarves, The Complete Priest's Handbook (both 2nd ed AD&D), the Hackmaster 4th Ed Player's Guide and GM's Guide, Mage 2nd Edition, Werewolf 3rd Edition, the Book of Worlds, the 3rd Ed Akashic Brotherhood Tradition Book, and possibly one other Mage book. Mage: The Sorceror's Crusade is on one of my shelves rather than in the drawers, and the rest of my gaming books are in the closet as I rarely use them.
- My Sinophilia's even worse. The chest of drawers currently contains: Journey to the West Volumes 1-4 (Anthony C. Yu, translator), Records of the Grand Historian: Qin-Han, Volume 1 by Sima Qian, Science in Traditional China by Joseph Needham (the little bitty 134-page lecture compendium rather than the multivolume encyclopedia), a Chinese-English dictionary, My First 100 Words in Chinese, The Classic of Mountains and Seas, two Barry Hughart novels (Bridge of Birds and The Story of the Stone - Eight Skilled Gentlemen is on my desk instead), and one of Helen Chen's Chinese cookbooks. The DVD rack includes Shaolin Soccer, Enter the Fat Dragon, My Father is a Hero, Wheels On Meals (which was nowhere near as much fun as I was expecting, by the way), Once Upon a Time in China, and Deadly China Hero. And then there's the Stephen Chow VCD's that'll be in the CD rack just as soon as I get home and get them in order; also the CD of Chinese violin music I bought at the Asia Society's gift shop. And the Talk Now! Learn to Speak Mandarin program cd. And the poster of Imperial Bodyguard Zhanyinbao from the Met, which was on sale for $5 and always looked really cool to me. Not to mention the Ken Hom cookbook on the shelves (my very first Chinese cookbook, I originally borrowed it from the library and loved it so much I had to buy my own copy so that I could stain it without worry), or any of the Chinese cookbooks people have given me as gifts over the years, or Outlaws of the Marsh, which is right next to Three Kingdoms, the abridged version. And, of course, the green jacket (which is, oddly, the exact same shade of green as the last volume of Journey to the West) - and the other books, which are on various shelves and haven't been seen in a while. There's at least one copy of the Tao te Ching, translated from the Mawangtui texts, and somewhere around here is a hardcover Art of War that I haven't read in ages.
My only excuse is a weakly pathetic mention that I've been at this for years and have had time to accumulate a great deal of stuff. Even so, well... it's a little unnerving. I suppose it's at least somewhat less so than my RL buddy's Giant Farking Collection of Godzilla Toys, which has a room all to itself and could probably finance a kidney transplant if he sold it all (he takes excellent care of his stuff, especially the Japanese-only limited edition toys). Kind of odd to look at my stuff and realize just how much of it is concentrated in certain areas. Hopefully this will prove to be a good thing.
(Side note: if you ever feel compelled to buy me a birthday present or Hogswatch present or something, I am not sufficiently unnerved to say no to more stuff along these lines. I don't own the Analects yet, but there's no way I'm gonna read Dream of the Red Chamber or whatever the hell the title is.)
Today's pulp survival tip is #163: Giant animals were never meant to be kept as pets.
