Updated Man Cave!

03.16.2009

Part of my goal of cleaning/updating the house over the past year has been to better organize things. I'm a little anal about knowing where things are, so being organized is important. When I got the storage building in the back yard late last year, it became the oversized closet for most of the stuff that was being stored in the garage. I then found myself able to once again park in the garage!

It's amazing how fast a 16x10 storage building can fill up. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since the garage is supposedly 20x20. I had a collection of Rubbermaid storage closets and shelving units that lined the walls of the garage that found themselves lining the walls of the storage building. At least half the stuff out there I probably don't need - at least 1 storage closet is full of unopened wrestling and superhero figures. But that's what a storage building is for. Storage!

I still keep the treadmill in the garage - it's electric and the storage building out back doesn't have electricity, so it makes sense to keep it in the garage. The riding mower, which I had planned to keep parked in the storage building, is staying in the garage just because it'll be a pain to roll it up into the building. Looking to the future, and since the mower and treadmill take up some wall space, I thought I would go ahead and cover up some available wall space with shelves.

This time, instead of Rubbermaid, I opted for actual metal (by Whirlpool, for some reason). I got 2 short cabinets which are covered by a single top constructed out of some indestructible space-age polymer, along with a taller cabinet. The taller cabinet currently has gaming supplies (like my Dwarven forge booty!). The shorter cabinets are empty. For now. That's why this project has been part of a plan for future expansion.

Maybe it's time for more Dwarven Forge booty?

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Kablammo

03.11.2009

It's been a busy week, as such I'm WAAAAY late posting an update.

I neglected to mention it, but I actually bought the pistol I was looking at and investigating a couple of weeks ago. For my birthday last Wednesday, I decided to be nerdy and celebrate with:40 .40 @ 40 on my 40

Not the most intuitive title, but I'll explain as:
   40 (shots of my)
   .40 (caliber pistol)
    @ 40 (with the target at 40 ft)
    on my 40 (on my 40th birthday)

I would have gone shooting at 4:40 if I had been thinking properly nerdly enough. Oh well.

Here's how my shooting's been going:

I've now been successfully shooting 3 times and have not blown my fool head off. I'm marking that down as a plus!

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Early Birthday Loot

03.03.2009

I have toys. Lots and lots of toys. Video games, wrestling figures, comics, board games. I could have more, in fact I used to have more, but over the years I've tried to cull down what I get and keep to those things that I actually use, or as in the case of 70 Stormtrooper figures, things that look really cool.

In the ResGen days we used to play games like Warhammer and Frag, and it was cool because JD would make the most awesomest maps to play on. Awesomest may not be a proper word, but it really gets across the awesomnisity of the maps. One of the things that got me hooked on Heroquest is the map-tiles. They're just cool.

I've seen different mods for Heroscape tiles to make them more realistic. For the Star Wars Miniatures game, there are sites specializing in paper models and scenery to give it the 3D feel. All of these are cool, and I've tried a couple of them, but I don't really have the time/focus/energy to do these things well, or well enough to play with afterward.

On of the sites that's been around for a while that I've drooled over is Dwarven Forge. They offer prebuilt/molded, hand painted terrain for 28mm games - 28mm is the standard for most of the miniature games I play (D&D, Star Wars, even Heroscape). After playing Robo Rally Saturday I started thinking about our next game to play, and Frag is a front runner. Although Frag comes with paper maps, JD printed a base map on a vinyl printer, then constructed walls and elevated walkways which made the game... awesomelier than ever. Dwarven Forge has a sci-fi set that Frag would work with...

My birthday is coming up, and that would make a really cool present for myself. So I loaded up the online cart and purchased myself some Dwarven Forgeness. Much to my shock, the order I placed on Sunday arrived on Tuesday.

I think we're probably set for the next game, but it's hard to not place another order. And even then I have to make sure I don't get carried away on the Fantasy side of their wares.

Permalink action figures/toys boardgames

A Tale of Two Days

03.02.2009

Yesterday there was snow on the ground in the morning. Most of the snow was gone by 10:00AM.

Today I was home in bed with a sinus cold. There is still a little snow in the shade in front of the house.

I have no idea what tomorrow holds. I would be fine with no more snow nor sinus cold.

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900+ DVDs

02.22.2009

This weekend I marked off one of the tasks that's been on my list of things to do:

• Minimize some DVD space

I had ordered 10 96-CD/DVD Storage Cases in January. They were backordered, but arrived a couple of weeks ago. Saturday night I began transferring TV series into the storage cases. Being the big dork that I am, I scoured the interweb and printed out little logos for the binder spines to mark which shows were in which binder. After 4 hours of filling up storage cases, I realized I have a lot of TV series. I have so many TV series that not all of them fit into 10 boxes of 96. I managed to box-up the following:

No longer being produced

•    Star Trek (6 different series)
•    Babylon 5 (2 series)
•    She Spies
•    VIP
•    Cleopatra 2525
•    Buck Rogers
•    Space: Above & Beyond
•    Firefly
•    Space: 1999
•    Stacked
•    Fastlane
•    Pretender
•    Painkiller Jane
•    Wonder Woman
•    Lois & Clark, the New Adventures of Superman
•    Flash
•    Birds of Prey
•    Moonlighting
•    Roughneck, The Starship Trooper Chronicles
•    Friends
•    Joey
•    Frasier
•    Sex & the City
•    3rd Rock from the Sun
•    X-Files
•    Rome
•    Band of Brothers
•    Charmed
•    Get Smart
•    Tick (2 series)

Still in production

•    Battlestar Galactica (3 series)
•    24
•    Smallville
•    nip/tuck

Each storage box holds 4 binders of 24 cd/dvds. Not each binder is completely full, but most are within 2 or 3 dvds of being full. That's a lot of dvds. I've still got a couple of shelves of current series (Heroes, Weeds, Dexter, etc) for which I ran out of binders. That being the cased, I ordered another 10 storage boxes, which, of course, are on backorder.

I have the weirdest hobbies.

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