Yesterday I spent most of the day cleaning and putting stuff away. Mostly what was laying around from Mom helping me unpack on Tuesday. We’ve already established that I’m a packrat and had a nice discussion about it over on New York Chat, a New York Discussion forum that’s nice enough to syndicate my ramblings here on BigDan.us. 
Anyway I had promised pictures of my cleaning fiasco. I ripped apart my closet on Tuesday night and really wished I had remembered to take before pictures. Basically I had boxes of CD Jewel Cases stacked up to the ceiling on the one shelf that I have in my closet. Back in the day when I DJ’ed I switched over to Case Logic Binders, much like these but always held on to my jewel cases in case any copyright issues arose. Years ago I threw out about 200 hundred of them but still have plenty o’ boxes of jewel cases from my purchases since we’ve moved into this apartment. Part of me wants to throw them all out and part of me wants to take the CDs out of the binder and put them back in the cases. However I don’t have all the cases and my room is stuffed already, so no storage.
Stage One: Was cleaning everything off that shelf. Mom was nice enough to put the boxes in her room behind her entertainment center. I then stacked all my new clothes in a column almost up to the ceiling on one side. I now have plenty of space on that shelf for my pants instead of putting them on the bottom on top of the bin.
Stage Two: Folding all the shirts & pants that I currently don’t wear because they don’t fit me. They will eventually fit me again but they’re just wasting space for me to see what’s actually in my closet.
Stage Three: Pulling the big plastic bin out off the floor of my closest and emptying it. This bin had lots of stuff I never used, so I bought a new smaller bin, put stuff I didn’t use in it. That stuff went in the hallway closet. All my newly folded clothes from Stage Two went into this bin and it went back on the floor in my closet. Now I can store my shoes on top of that bin instead of my everyday clothes.
Here are some pictures and before you ask, no pink wasn’t my color choice. 
All nice and neat
Yes all those empty hangers used to hold clothes that don't fit me
Wow I can actually use that space now!
In addition to that I hooked up my PlayStation, GameCube and AV Switcher. No surround sound yet as I need to buy new speaker wire but it looks neat.
Other than that I changed the orientation of my work area again. I like the monitor to my right as I’m right handed and tend to look to my right more than left, naturally. I really wanted to put my monitor stright head on as I had it before but for just a couple of inches of wire my speakers and montior wouldn’t. I really like my tower off in the corner as it gets things out the way. Here are some pictures of that..
This is a lot more comfortable for me.
Almost Zen..if only I could more inches on the speaker and VGA cable
Other than that the trolly (white plastic thing) on the side got sorted and stuff moved around. Now I actually use it for everyday things. My laptop is on a little table beside the main desk as it’s not really often that I use it in conjuction with my desktop and if I need to I can swing over to the table on my right for quick useage.
There we go my room is pretty much all set. I have a couple of more things to do, namely my surround sound which is a PITA job but I’m just waiting for speaker wire. Once I quit smoking and before winter I’d like to throw on a fresh coat of white paint, this stuff looks dingy from all the smoke. Now I just have to keep up with the dust..every day there’s a thin layer of dust all over the place. You wouldn’t believe I just cleaned yesterday by the looks of my keyboard!
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