Take that, pile of unsorted optical discs!

[pseydtonne]

In an earlier post I wrote that I thought I would need six hours to deal with the tchotchkes and CD piles. I have worked a lot more on this situation every night this week except for Friday and I worked on it all afternoon today.

1. On Tuesday evening I sorted out the giant pile in front of my dresser and put my laundry away. At the bottom of the pile I found an entire Ikea bag filled with books and magazines I had bought on my last trip to Canada or on the subsequent scouring of my childhood bedroom. Most of the books found homes, even though this meant shuffling some shelves. The magazines wound up in a short pile on the floor. Upshot: the room was suddenly walkable. I also tossed my big fan into the hall closet.
   
   
2. On Wednesday evening I gathered all the tchotchkes from the top of my dresser, the top of my graphic novel bookshelf and the top of my wire-rack drawer. I threw away a bunch of receipts and sorted out some content. A lot ended up in a box that I save for moving vinyl albums, which is where they sit right now -- under the fan in the hall closet.
   
   
3. On Thursday I had to go to bed early. Thus I only wound up moving stacks of books around and shoving the pile of magazines into the wire drawer rack. The room was navigable and stable. Oh, and the bass guitar now has a nesting spot.
   
   
4. On Friday I had a date. When we got back to my place, she did not have to wonder where to sit.
   
   
5. On Saturday I had dimers hanging out. He too could simply flop on the bed and not worry about unstable piles of crap. That evening I poked at a computer and had places to put the cards I pulled out of it.
   
   
6. Today I spent five hours sorting CDs and DVDs. It turns out my guess of six hours was a good ball park figure but a little low. I am very pleased to report that all but a half-dozen music CDs are now put away, be they purchases or rips. This involved sorting and housing over a hundred discs. I have also put away a large amount of my data CDs but not all of them. I have a ton of empty jewel cases in various colors, only a few broken cases and a stack of empty paper CD sleeves about four inches thick.
   

One good thing about CDs is that I can place them into stacks on the bed while I work with them and spread the stacks geometrically. When I need break a tall stack into two or three, a column of space has an obvious place on the bed. When I'm done with what I can do for the day, I just grab stack and put them back on a shelf. It helps that I now have an entire shelf and a half free to put them somewhere.

Right before I started writing this, I got cranky-hungry. Thus I paused to write this. Next I shall figure out a meal idea and execute it. After that I can resume some effort before bed.

It's fascinating to see these different stacks laid out on the bed. Here is a pile of data CDs in generic paper sleeves, all of which are drivers for hardware. Next to that sits a stack of data CDs in nice, cardboard holders. On and on they unfold, but not too far and none about to fall over.

I may need to hit the mall on the way home tomorrow to pick up a couple more zippable CD binders for ripped DVDs and data CDs. It amazed me to see page upon page of music CDs from friends and realize how many I have yet to try. It's like having another Christmas.

-civilization is coming to my bedroom, Dante

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[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

When I come over next, if you haven't gone through all the CDs friends gave you, maybe you can sort through the sounds with me there.

(BTW, you might want to create a You Tube list with my name on it and use it to line-up videos you want to share. Or call it Dante's Revenge if it starts to get to be several hours long.)

(Since the word date can be used from a date to be shared with friends to other meanings, you'll have to expound which degree you were thinking of when you used the word in 4.)

(Livery. That was the word I was thinking of when we talked about the out-of-date terms in the old fashioned phone book and I was thinking of taxis.)