My Rothko walls, part 3

[darkemeralds]

*slumps*

Well, the walls are all painted. I'm too tired to take pictures, and besides, all the tape and plastic is still up. My armchair and four large bags of clutter to be donated are out on the porch and I'm sitting here in the kitchen, staring, a little too tired to go to bed.

Naturally, painting has led to more decluttering. I like the walls so much that I don't want to put anything back up on them. I'm getting rid of a ton of books, most of my DVDs, my home-theater-in-a-box (which includes the DVD player), and the stand my TV's been perched on since I bought it. I'm thisclose to getting rid of the TV itself, since I can't even remember the last time I turned it on. But car-less AND TV-less? I'm not sure I'm prepared to be that un-American.

Okay, time to go scrape some of the paint off my feet and go to bed.

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[darkemeralds]

The books are a wrench every time. I've taken your comment very much to heart, however, and am reminding myself that if I want to re-read any of them (an unlikely eventuality, since I rarely read at all anymore, and hardly ever re-read), a Kindle edition or similar takes up zero space.

I've given some thought to a massive external drive, and I don't rule it out (we're down to less than $100 per terabyte now), but really, the cloud takes up even less space and is even less subject to failure, theft and fire. Entertainment technology has become so incredibly transitory that it seems silly to invest a dime in so much as a new thumb drive. I just paid Google $5 for a year's cloud storage of several gigabytes, and you know cloud storage is just going to get cheaper and bigger.

IDK...

For the moment, I'm keeping the big monitor, getting rid of most of the books, and jettisoning a bunch of outdated tech gear while I'm at it. I'm keeping Firefly and Serenity for sentimental reasons. :D