A New Home (for the holidays)

I've solidly moved in to my new apartment. There are still a few things in my old apartment that I want to get. You know, things like the colander, the cookie sheet, and an old computer or two. The sort of thing you don't need with you at all times but want to have accessible.

The other week, Tomato Nation had as a guest columnist Wing Chun, who talked about home organization tips. Things like what to do if you have too many books or just own more than you can easily store. Wing's advice was, of course, logical and helpful, and could have been written directly for me. Not that I followed it, of course; I need my books! However, I did get rid of some role-playing books that I didn't need anymore. In fact, it may be the case that I never needed these particular books, since I never played the games. Anyway, I did a small amount of paring back my possessions, but not really as much as I could have.

The new apartment is kind of weird. Well, obviously it's always weird to start calling a new place "home," but there are certain architectural features that me wonder exactly what the architects could have been thinking. For example, the bathroom is split into two parts: there's the bath/toilet section, and then a sink-based antechamber. That's not the strange part. The strange part is that you have to go through the antechamber to get to my bedroom. So if I look out my bedroom door, I'm looking at a bathroom sink.

On the other hand, there are other architectural features that I would characterize as "neat." There's a fireplace, for example. And although we're on the ground floor, there's a moat between us and the sidewalk. Come to think of it, because our downstairs neighbor leads a fairly interesting life, there's also a dungeon below us. That should keep us safe from the hordes of peasants.

The only cable outlet was in the living room. That's not a particularly interesting sentence, but it has a lot of implications. See, I wanted my computer (and the cable modem attached to it) to be in my bedroom. And I also wanted televisions in both bedrooms to be attached to the cable. So there was a lot of cabling going on, with splitters and routers and all sorts of foolishness. It would take a long time to describe (and took even longer to do), but trust me: it was a huge pain, and resulted in a big feeling of success when everything was finally attached.