Time & Space

I have a lot of crap.

I'm not trying to say that's how I feel about the stuff I have, but I feel that "crap" is the best way to summarize the cornucopia of toys and trinkets I've obtained from my travels. There come times when I take a look around at all this stuff, though, and really ask myself why it's here. Point being that I think it may be time for it to NOT be here.

I don't have that lovin' feelin' for my old "stuff" any more. 20+ years of nerdy Star Wars affection collecting has left me with quite the bookshelf full of books, quite the closet full of toys. Years of being a game nerd have my home literally covered in cardboard, awash in a sea of games no longer produced, in many cases by companies no longer doing any producing.

Enter money: my main source of income these days is assembling/repairing PC's. As one might imagine, having the parts on hand to make such things happen is pretty essential to the whole gig. Having a place to put all this stuff is also a fantastic perk. Being awake 'til 6 in the morning looking for a mobo driver CD which SHOULD be easy to find is not something I need to have happen in my line of work. What makes it doubly frustrating is having to toss aside the same Chewbacca figure 11 times while hunting.

That's it, I'm done, it's Time to make Space.

I've got some cool neighbors here, some of the handful of people in this town who speak English. As the parents of two young kids, and semi-nerds themselves, we always find ourselves stealing obsessions from each other: they made me start buying Sideshow figures, I made them start buying FMA TCG cards. They've been trying to get me to get in with them on the creation of an ebay store for some time now, as they already buy and sell (and use my scanner and wireless connection for :P) all sorts of stuff on ebay. I'm thinking the time has come to take them up on this.

I've got all this stuff that's representative of the things I've enjoyed for a long, long time now. I guess, in time, your love for this stuff just goes away. Or maybe it's just 3 poorly-written prequel films? Who can say. All I know is that I've got to suck it up, invest a little Time, and make a little Space. Some extra $ is nice, too.

Oh, and the desire for, say, a 1080p HiDef TV doesn't hurt your desire to get rid of some stuff, either, does it.

Maybe it's just Time for new toys... that take up less Space :P