Confessions of a One-Track Mind

One of the things I inherited from Kat was a side table that's currently being used as my coffee table. It's nothing special, but it has nice lines and is more suitable for the space I have. Somebody, at some point, painted the ersatz wood-grain top green.

Between the time it was painted and the time I got it, it got scratched up so that the ersatz wood-grain showed through in unsightly streaks. The chewed-up looking top bothered me. I have nothing against a genuinely aged piece, but this just looked BAD. I masked the surface with a runner, but was unsatisfied with that solution.

Therefore, while I was at WalMart today, I invested in a bottle of craft paint (hunter green) and this evening during Justified, I spread a couple of big plastic trash bags under the table and gave the top a quick going-over.

Now, I know craft paint isn't really intended for that sort of job, and it's liable to get just as messed up in the long run. But it's the large size bottle of paint ($2.49), so I have plenty for touch ups, and I already had a suitable paint brush (a souvenir of my ceramics hobby), so it's a small enough investment, and it really does look a lot better, even with just one coat. I'll give it another light coat tomorrow for good measure.

Little by little, it's getting better!
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Did a bit of rooting around in the living room this evening. Sorted a basket full of old bills and such, winnowed about 75% of it to shred. Started work on the entertainment unit that I want the new (inherited from Kat a year ago) TV to go into. The difficulty with that is, the e-unit is packed with stuff from top to bottom.

I started in the middle, figuring if nothing else, I could empty it out and get the TV off the floor and into that big opening. Encountered a large box filled with four old purses (one with reciepts dated August 1999) and a bunch of cassette tapes. I don't even know where my cassette player is, but with my luck, if I pitch them, I'd end up with a very retro vehicle as my next car. They're jinx protection, pure and simple.

In addition to the e-unit, there are two bookcases crammed with tapes dating back to 1984 when I got my first VCR. Getting rid of them (or at least 90% of them) will free up TONS of space and let me move the bookcases elsewhere.

Seriously, Fluffy? The Commish? Is available on DVD. These? Are VHS! The vid equivalent of 8-track, FFS. And Iron Chef TOS is on the Cooking Channel every day.

I have a credenza destined for the living room---it's going to replace the other e-unit, the one my old TV is in now. I'm not keeping any more tapes than will fit in its three bottom drawers, and possibly not even that many. (The long-term plan being to either rip them or get the corresponding DVDs. A few things have never made it to DVD, like The Burning Zone, Vengeance Unlimited, Wildside, Misfits of Science---so I need to sort carefully.) Fortunately, the important stuff was labeled. Let's just hope it's all still playable!
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