I am running out of book space in my room. My clothes are on two shelves in the cupboard ( it has eight shelves in all ) and the rest of it is filled with books ( one shelf has the mp3 and game cds). I transfer the books that I am done reading to the cupboard in the Big Room , beside the TV, and even that’s fast filling up. The two crates that I had bought in the MR Book Stall sale are in my room now, and I have not opened them because there’s no place to keep them. Well, actually, I did open them – to show the stuff to Rishi and to read one of the books, but they are still in the crates. Chandru says he will give me a wooden box that can double as a table. He has been saying that since last month, and now when I think of that box I see it as an ornate Treasure Chest, huge and heavy, that can fit all my books with space to spare. Great Expectations!
My computer’s screwed. The hard disk, actually. It’s on the verge of crashing again, and the least I can do is to burn all the unwritten stuff ( not too much ) and take backups of Game-saves. A remarkable coincidence – but the two days I linked peripherals through the USB port, the OS crashed – it says there is some VFAT problem. I had to reinstall Windows again yesterday, the third time in the last four weeks.
Eight months after I bought my computer, I have managed to get the audio system working properly. Mostly becuase I installed PowerDVD-XP 4, which supports Dolby 5.1 audio now – listening to the Boys DTS cd is a genuine pleasure, as if I have grown extra ears and can hear more bits of the music now. Some instruments/voices get highlighted differently in 5.1 audio, so there is the occasional surprise.
I can never get my room cleaner beynd a certain point. Whenever I go back home, I see dust on the monitor and dust in the corners and assorted stuff lying on the floor and some clothes on the bed. I clean them up. I sleep. I come to the office. I go back home. The dust is back.
I just read what I wrote so far. My brain feels like it’s been subjected to a burst of Mr Freeze’s popsicle gun. I am so boring. And bored.
Hark, a light on the horizon. oooky, Beelzubeb bless his kind soul, has helped me download the complete runs of Fables and 1602. And The Girl Who Would Be Death. And Loads of JLA superspecials. Read 1602 #1 five times, Read the annotations just now. Interesting! I can hardly wait to find out what happens next. But, softly, love. The Boss Awakens.
You have 1602??
*envy*1
I just read issues 1 and 2, and then went and read the annotations. It is really building up well. :)
>> Boys DTS cd
Where did ya pick that up from??!!
It was available for 125 rupees at almost all music outlets, until recently. Does not have a cover per se, it’s just a cd inside a cardboard pack.
oh ok thnx.. :)
let me check it out whether it is available anywhere here..
How much hard disk space do you have, dude?
After, I think you’re the only person I ‘know’ that could use tens of gigs of hdd space effectively. :)
Eighty gigs. But most of my “stuff” is on cds, away from the temporary existence of magnetic storage. Except for the pirated copy of Kill Bill vol 1. ( which I am not burning, because it’s really bad quality )
If you have lived with a computer that has 6.2 GB hard disk space for five years, you would be an effective free-space-user too. ;)
You’d love Columbia House in US/Canada, me thinks. If you expect to spend a non-trivial amount of time, or have friends who’d be willing to go thro’ some grief, it is a great place to trawl for el-cheapo DVDs.
I was supposed to have an account (and could have thus contributed to your collexion) with CH Canada, except they seem a tad bit disorganized and I’m too busy/lazy to actively push for my membership … maybe some day …
maybe some day …
Ah! Another light on the horizon. :)
CH DVD Club is not cheap per se. You have to work around the system to get good deals. See http://www.dvdtalk.com -> Forum -> DVD Clubs. I’m not sure if the rules apply to CH.ca.
i wish i was half as interesting as you are and have your style to print my thoughts.
like i said you have too many books how do you find time to read them all?
do you manage reading them all?
I am reading them. I don’t think I’ll ever finish all of them, because of the rate of increase, but one can always dream. ;-)
Right now, the read-percent for books stands at 40%. Comics – 98%.
which comics do you have?
do you have tonnes of CALVIN & HOBBES?
can i borrow then some day?
how can you afford them?
i guess i know!
which comics do you have?
You really don’t mean to get me started on this, do you? :)
do you have tonnes of CALVIN & HOBBES?
The complete stuff…on a single cd.
can i borrow then some day?
If you don’t mind reading C&H on a computer, sure!!!
how can you afford them?
Ahem.
i guess i know!
Ah, I know. :)
Oh, and you can add the C&H to my package as well.
i absolutely do not mind reading it on the comp.
i wish i could borrow it. :)
“ornate Treasure Chest” ha in your dreams. if you arew storing books in cardboard boxes becareful of pests.
if you arew storing books in cardboard boxes becareful of pests.
Funny you should say that. I recently bought a can of Hit and every evening I spray some of it around the crates.
The parent poster probably meant pests which eat from inside! I remember the almost entire collection of Sports Star/Sports World till 90’s at my home vanishing like that. They were stacked on top of shelves. It looked perfectly normal outwards, until someone tried to get an old issue from the middle of a bundle; the whole stack just caved in. Moral of the story: never underestimate the power of the termite!
see he got it!
Gah! Any idea what I can do to prevent this?
first of all clean them all every month or hire someone to clean them and dust them every month. second….. to avoid some kinds of pests like those silver fishes etc. keep moth balls in them. you cannot help termites but for cleaning the books regularly.
good for you you will keep your books safe. but there are some other kinds of pests which are not affected by HIT so be careful. you really do have a treasure chest even if its not ornate.
I seem to be showing up in everyone’s journal these days… hehehe
Oh and hey, I really could do without the publicity, especially about certain copy…*COUGH*…right issues.
One should give credit where it’s due, Oh Great Source of Good Comics.
You get these cheap Aluminium trunks in Ameerpet in that busy lane leading to Satyam theater from the main road. I buy those for the books. And then a generous sprinkling of naphtalene balls.
They’re not good enough to transport between cities, though (just in case you go bonkers by watching SRK/Dil Se again and decide to go back to Assam for some ULFA training so that you can belt-bomb SRK at a Filmfare function).