Re: Cluebook Conundrum

On Sun, 21 May 2006 00:40:12 -0700, thehawk
<thehawk5150at@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I want one of those big giant tree things that go to the ceiling, but
they're expensive. So I figure eventually I can make one of my own.
My brother thinks when I move that I should take an entire room and
put shelves everywhere (with carpet remnants on them of course), with
some tunnels and hideouts and such. :-) All I have is a teeny weeny
scratching post with this bob thingy on top. Cats aren't even
interested in it.

That would be pretty cool. Unfortunately, I would probably have more
fun building it than the Princess would have enjoying with it. I might
have to get another cat one of these days who likes to climb and play
and stuff.

I am quite sure that Pounce would have more fun playing with it than I
would building it. I think, in fact, that I would have more fun
*watching* him having fun than building it.


UIX. (Not the Dragon Edition like I wanted, but I got a really good
deal on this right before Thanksgiving, so I could easily still hunt
down the DE and sell this & probably get my money back.)
I don't see DE too much on ebay these days. Once in a while tho. I
have it, altho I have no idea at the moment what it has that the regular
edition does not. Except the ginormous box that I keep a bunch of other
Ultima stuff in.

Um.... well, the K-8 collection for one, and a poster thingy and a
letter from LB, and... oh jeez I've forgotten. Oh, the anhk and the
manuals are faux leather. Dumb reason to make it worth that much
money, but such is the strangeness of a Dragon.

None of that stuff is in the regular edition? Man, that just sucks.
What were those people thinking? Hosers.

This is EA we're talking about. And the original does at least have
the cloth map and the tarot cards.


OK, I've been meaning to finish dinner for the last hour. Mostly put
I made thehawk's world famous (yet still strangely unknown) incredible
pasta salad last night. It will last most of the week, so dinner is
pretty easy.

Well, if you don't share it, how's it going to become known?

I don't think it would keep if I put it in the mail to get all the way
over there from here.

Especially in the summer. (And it's suddenly gotten rather hottish
the last couple of days here. I usually get by holding off on putting
in the a/c until June -- oh, I guess it is almost June. Wow, May just
passed me right by.) Now, if you were to send it in the winter and
overnight it... Or, then there's the recipe. (Unless you're not
quite sure how you make it.)


together, just needs put in the oven. And then we decide: game or
movie? Game or movie? Hmm, not easy to do combat with plate in hand.
Game until dinner is ready. Then movie while eating. Sounds like a
fair deal. (And dishes whenever I get around to them. :-))
Heh. Yea, I follow that plan for dishes a lot too. I really am going
to have to hire a maid. And someone to help with some interior
decoration type stuff. Make this place look almost like a real house.
Well, at least the guest room and guest bathroom. The computer desk
here in the living room is only going to get bigger.

I will worry about that after I move. My landlord has turned into a
slumlord and everything is falling apart. And I hate the place so bad
that it's hard for me think about actually doing anything with it.
Plus I'd like to see where I'm moving so that I can buy appropriate

You have to buy different furniture for different places? I am pretty
sure it is always going to have white (or close to it) walls, and it is
not going to be any smaller than this place is, so I should be safe with
whatever I get. Except for a waterbed. I will wait until I move to get
one of those.

I wasn't referring to just furniture, but I don't have much of that.
At least in the living room. The last time I owned l.r. furniture was
when I was sharing a house with two other people and my stuff went
into the basement cause there was already furniture in the house. And
it was such a hassle to move and I couldn't get it thorugh the doors
of the new place. (They were not only smaller-than-spec doors, but
just the way the doorway came off a stairwell, etc., it would've
literally been impossible.) So I just sold it. Didn't like it
anyway. But within one or two months, before having a chance to get
more, I started working at home and an office went into my living room
instead. And that was a small apartment. So I literally had no
living room furniture when I moved in here. And I've never really had
the money to get it. I have a couple of chairs that were given to me
by other people, plus my TV, stereo and a bookcase are in there. It's
also a weird room and I'm not sure a normal set of furniture would
even fit.

But I also just meant getting nicer things, maybe a new set of towels
and accessories for the bathroom, some things for the kitchen, stuff
like that. But I need to see what kind of space I'll have, and what
color things may already be. I'm going to be intentionally saving out
some extra money for any major stuff that might need done (known or
unknown, like the water heater going out), or even remodeling a
kitchen, new carpet, etc. I'm gonna count all that into the total
amount I'm spending, whether it's the cost of the house itself or
anything I may want to do with it. I'm also gonna set aside some
amount (unknown as yet) to get furniture, drapes, etc. But I can't do
any of that stuff until I know where I'm going. It isn't just colors
or whatever -- it's the fact that, for instance, I don't *need* any
drapes were I'm at. Whole place already had shades or blinds up, and
I bought one set of blinds for the bedroom. I have a bit of stuff
boxed up from the past.

In fact, there's even stuff over at my dad's (now brother's) house
that I'm getting, but can't take yet cause there's nowhere to put it.
The piano for one. But also even some kitchen stuff, etc., cause
there's just no place to put anything here, and it's already full of
more than it can hold. (By square footage, this place oughta be big
enough for me, but it's inefficient, there's a lack of closet space,
the kitchen has a huge floor area but not much counter or cabinet
space. Plus I need either a real basement or some extra storage
space.)


stuff for the new place. About all I've done is an attempt to fix up
the kitchen a bit, but trust me, that's not saying much.

One good thing about living in a decent apartment complex. Anything
that breaks, I just tell the manager and she gets it taken care of.

Assuming it's the kind of manager who gets it taken care of. If the
manager can't do the work and hires others to do it, it's a bit
easier. But my landlord has only paid someone to do something once
and that was re-drywalling the ceiling in the bedroom. He's always
done the rest himself and he doesn't wanna do it anymore. (He used to
be a fairly good landlord, but he got totally burnt and is slowing
selling off all his houses. I think he's saving this one for last
cause he's got two good long-time tenants. Oh, it's a double.)

I also hate apartments. I hate having neighbors on the other side of
the wall, or on my ceiling or at my feet. I hate not having my own
space outside. I'm extremely private and apartments just aren't my
thing. The apartment I was in before coming here was actually an old
house turned into 3 apartments. There was a yard but I was sharing
it. Fortunately there was a back balcony and my neighbor didn't use
it much, so that was semi-private. I also once had an apartment that
had a sliding glass door off the bedroom, leading to a wood-fence
enclosed area. That was actually pretty nice. But that was the
*only* thing that was nice. I just hate apartments.


Altho I do miss fixing some things myself, and being able to rip things
out and put new things in.

More fun to do it with someone else. I've helped re-hab both a house
and a theatre. And I somewhat enjoyed doing it. But now I have to do
it all myself, without always knowing what I'm doing. (And a lot of
the knowledge I picked up is now lost out of my head.) I also don't
have a lot of the proper tools, though that is another thing of my
dad's I'm supposed to get if my brother ever finishes straightening it
all out.
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but rather to the best you can do.
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