The Great Cleansing

I recently got back into Magic: The Gathering–as you can see in my previous post–and it led to me looking for a better way to store my collection of cards. On a whim last Saturday, I decided to look in the “organization/storage” section on Canadian Tire’s website and found the perfect plastic storage tower with removable drawers, which I now store my entire collection in. It’s nearly full, and I’ve got more cards on their way in the mail–yay for buying boxes of booster packs!–and pretty soon it’ll be full. But until that happens, it’ll serve me well.

Anyway, after I got what has been dubbed my “Magic Storage Tower of Power” I set out to clean my room a bit, instead of just plopping it atop old garbage/dust and other messes. When I was just about finished cleaning out that one corner of my room, I decided I might as well go ahead and clean the entire thing. And so here I am, in a very nice and clean room. There are a few spots I’ve not yet gotten to–under the table my computer is on, for instance–but I’m nearly finished, and am really happy with the way it looks.

I’ve actually kind of gotten “storage tower fever”, as it were, as I’ve gone and bought another smaller tower for console controllers, my DS in its’ case, my camera, errant USB cords and chargers, et al. I’m even considering getting another “tower of power” for clean laundry–currently my clean clothes sit in a translucent trash bag inside of a laundry basket.. I don’t know why–or even more Magic cards, etc.

I’ll have to take some pictures, or a video or something to show off my new room, and you can bet when I do, I’ll link to ‘em/it in this post.

February 23, 2009 · Filed Under Announcements, Journal, Magic, Projects

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Once more, just as before.

Last time I took a week off of work to attend school (that way I get really into it, and also retain the knowledge I’m gleaning from the pages of various textbooks) I had hardly any money at all. I never realized how much I really rely on the crudly small amount of dosh I make at my job, but without it, it’s hard to do anything! Currently I want to spend an exorbitant amount on some pieces o’ cardboard with some ink on them (read: Magic the Gathering booster packs) but I can’t afford to buy them and afford lunches at school this week, so I’m forced to find another source of cash. I can either take an advance on my pay from work, so when I go back on the 17th I’m earning the lunches I ate the week prior, but that’d make it harder to pay my rent. I could try and find someone’s computer to fix, but I don’t want to call people up and be like: ‘Is your computer working? No! I’ll fix it! Pay me!” (which, incidentally, is the reason I can’t rely on computer repair as a main source of income… sometimes I’ll have a huge rush of work and make money hand over fist, and then I’ll have a 3 month dry spell) and the final way of getting money is to borrow it from my parents, if they can afford to lend me some. But that’s almost the same as getting an advance from work (it gives me more rent to pay off later) but without bugging my boss, I suppose.

I still have money, just.. not enough money to both buy lunches and the cards I want. Now sure, I don’t need the cards right now, but I want them right now. I could always just take sandwiches to school for lunch, but that’d not only be super jenk, it’d detract from the amount of time I can hang out with my friends during lunch. Y’see, I’m a guest there, so friends of mine like Ty and Quin still have to adhere to their break schedules, and the best time to get some conversation in with them is on their lunch break! I can’t go to whatever restaurant or coffee shop they frequent and pull out a cheap-ass ham sandwich I brought from home… that just isn’t kosher.

And as if that wasn’t worse enough, me wanting these cards that I know in the end I’ll not even care about so badly… I also need another iTunes card! I can’t go very long without buying music from the iTunes Store, as every week there’s more and more music Iwant, and I refuse to pirate it… but I’m down to $1.97 on the iTunes store–that’s enough for one song, as I’d be $0.01 short of another after the purchase.. I can’t go over a week with only buying one song. Damn my consumerist ways!

Currently I’ve paid off one third of this month’s rent… so my plan is to take back that money from my parents, use it for lunches, and then take the money I make next Wednesday and Thursday and.. the Wednesday after that, and use that for my full rent. (I can’t go back to work after having been broke for a week and not spend some of the money I make on Tuesday.. and the other Tuesday will be the same deal, I’ll undoubtedly want something by then. I need to learn how to save money!)

The whole reason I’m in this mess is because I spent too much money online the last few weeks… I bought “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” on DVD from Amazon.ca (which I already own via iTunes… just wanted the extra features…) as well as the third trade paperback in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 series of comics, “Wolves at the Gate“, the 3rd trade paperback of the Y: The Last Man series of graphic novels, “One Small Step“, and a new novel in the Magic: the Gathering universe known as “Agents of Artifice“, which insofar is fantastic. (sidebar: I currently own most of the MTG novels out there, I’m only like.. 6 to 8 short… a few of the ones that came after The Brothers’ War, and the Lorwyn block, as I hated Lorwyn.)

Anyway, I’ve rambled on long enough already. Enjoy this picture of ze books I was just talking about!