Friday, July 10, 2026

my bedroom ceiling is now completely full of amazon cardboard, taped over with weatherproofing tape. is this working?

yes.

it's stayed above 30 degrees in this room for weeks, even as the temp outside falls to 18, 19. we've had a couple of cool days and the temp in here has stayed put. it's great. i've found it helpful to run candles in the evening, but i don't have the heat on. it's just trapped in here.

the next phase is the aluminum, but i'm not sure i need it in the summer. i'll need it in the winter...

i'm going to clean in here and install a few things (shelves, mirror) while i'm at it. it will look closer to being done.
i bought some new sheets and some new pillows and they came in today. my old sheets had taken a little bit of abuse from sleeping with conditioner in my hair, which dulled them from bright pink to off-pink. and, my pillows have long sucked. i don't remember where they came from. i'm going to throw them on the couch. i also bought some new candles, two entrance rugs, a shoe mat and some more tape for the ceilings.

this is always constantly shifting around in circles, but let me write it out to understand it:

- i was putting the paneling up in the bedroom, and doing a few extra things in the laundry and bathroom before i moved to the kitchen
- i needed to get boxes out of the front in order to install the panels
- i wanted to organize boxes by room as i was getting boxes out of front  (boxes from 2013 items in pile, to start)
- before i could get into the front, i needed to clear the stereo table out of the side and put it in the right place, where there were then boxes
- needed to move the boxes first.
- the boxes contain books that go on shelves. 
- needed to install shelves in library and bedroom to move books to move stereo table.
- needed to clean area in front in order to install shelves
- needed to clean entire area to clean area in front around shelves
- needed caulking to clean entire area in front
- got some caulking, cleaned area (set up charging table, small shelf), moved shelving into the area, moved some other items out of the area, moved boxes of cds and wood to area
- set up library shelf, moved books to library shelf, used box for ceiling.
- decided to catalog books and cds and website with working profiles, organize by device
- in order to catalog, needed lists of old media
- wanted to set up listening area first so i could listen and catalog, after i had lists
- had to stop to clean bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, myself first
- had to get everything out of bedroom to do general clean
- had to set up listening room to get items out of bedroom <---done

now that i have the listening room set up, i'm going to listen to the cds that i already put on the shelf through my listening system and catalog them one by one. everything is now going through the 5 cd rotation, so 'll need to listen to everything five times before shelving it. after the fifth listen, i'll make sure that the information at discogs and at my web site are both up to date.

the pi isn't going to be set up immediately, but it should be set up soon. while some of these releases have reviews written, i'm not posting anything to the dtk site until it comes up in the web in the sense i described previously (starting with miles davis). i'm starting clean with the first davis release and it likely won't happen until all of the furniture is in place. right now, i'm just cataloging physical media, filling in holes and getting items out of boxes and onto shelves.

tonight, i'm focusing on getting everything out of the bedroom so i can get the aluminum up, and then on getting everything back in the bedroom. i then want to clean the bathroom and kitchen and then finish the list of lists, before i can get to doing things in the laundry, bathroom and kitchen again.
i have my listening room set up. sort of. i have what has recently been my main amp connected to my kefs (which are my preferred stereo speakers), with a pioneer turntable, a 5 disc cd/dvd player, a cassette player and the raspberry pi as media sources. the pi is itself connected to a variety of peripherals, and i'm going to connect it and the dvd player to a large external monitor on the wall. but, the pi is not installed yet, so it will be physical media until i get there.

i am disconnecting this listening system from my studio, and will be modernizing my studio monitors. my kefs still sound great, but they're 40 years old. i need something more digitally oriented.

i also got most of the cardboard up on the ceiling in the bedroom, and it's definitely helping a lot.

i'll be focusing on the general clean for the rest of the day and should be able to get some aluminum up on the ceiling very soon.