Ha ha .  The new short boxes are slightly longer , so it's a win. 

Started a semi-major project that will leave the house in a bit of chaos probably until late spring/early summer. My wife has been having trouble with her knee for the past few years but is too stubborn to get surgery just yet, but getting up and down the stairs to our bedroom, which takes up the entire attic level, more than once a day causes a lot of pain in the knee, so we have decided to bring the bedroom downstairs to the main level, which means it will take over the 2 "bedrooms" downstairs which have become the office/studio and the comic room/library. In conjunction we will reclaim the finished room down in the basement that had fallen into disuse and become a storeroom since my brother-in-law last used hte room when he stayed with us for a year and a half out of his financial need a while back (he's been gone a couple of years now and the room just languished.

We were planning on getting new windows for the entire house this spring and having all the wiring upgraded to get up to code since it hasn't been done since my wife bout the house over 15 years ago, and as this will cause some of the drywall to need to be replaced and we want to repaint as part of the big switch, the move will have to work in conjunction of the scheduling of those two renovations. I suspect we will be purging a lot of stuff through the process as well, at least a good chunk of books, movies, clothes, etc. that we don't need/don't use/won't revisit, etc.

So I am in process of packing up the comic room and moving the stuff out and bringing down the clothes/dressers/etc. from upstairs to make the room usable as a wardrobe of sorts and make stuff accessible for my wife, which means large chunks of my comic will be stacked upstairs mostly inaccessible for a few months. Once I get that set, I'll start to dismantle the office/studio and bring the bed down and set it up in there to create a functional sleeping space, and then start cleaning out the basement storage room and work on that until the windows and wiring is done, and I can start the painting of the three rooms before finally getting them all reset and get everything back to the new status quo. I will need to do much of it on my own (except the windows and wiring, we'll have contractors do that) and work around by schedule at work, so this is going to be a slow process, leaving a lot of stuff feeling a bit chaotic until it gets done. I know I've bitten off more than I can handle, but I need to just take it one thing at a time and make my way through the process. I may not get a lot of reading done over the next few months, and I may post less as my time is spent elsewhere, but I'll till be around and enjoying comics.

I got the closet of the comic room cleaned out this weekend so she can hang up all the clothes she needs for work down here and today on my day off started clearing out all the built-in bookcases up in the bedroom that hold her books, and moved them down here so she can start going through and deciding what to keep and what to purge. I moved about half of the short boxes of comics upstairs too (17 short boxes) this weekend and stacked them in the empty closet space I created up there. I sniffed a tear of regret when I packed up all my Howard books this afternoon too, and brought them up to eventually take the place of her books I am moving out of the built-ins.

So my honey do list has exploded and grown exponentially, and I am dismantling the rooms I spent the past 2 years setting up, but it is what it is. The new set up will be better, I'll actually have more space, but it's going to be a long road to get there, that's for sure. Wish me luck


-M

In a heartbeat

A moral sense of right and wrong never applied to banks themselves

Same here, plus the money is insured so it's not like I'd be hurting the people who deposited the money there either.

Yep, I'd have no problem in robbing a bank... and I never have any sympathy when one gets robbed, if nobody is hurt.

No, but I'm a pretty strong believer in the whole 10 Commandments thing, so "thou shalt not steal" is in play for me on this one.