building the tower

went to ikea last night expecting some pretty sparse crowd, since it's a thursday. and what a shocker i got. it was absolutely packed. apparently there was a sale on. an ikea sale? they might as well start handing things out for free. which they did. with certain purchases of course.

and sure enough, something caught my eye and i had to have it. it was glistening in the, uh... pretty artificial lighting in the store, begging me to whisk it away from the treachery of the life in a shop. and when i finally got around to collecting it, i immediately realized the downside.

there is obviously the length. i dare say that this is perhaps one of the longest items they have in stock. it's a pain in the ass to just navigate around the store with it. and it barely fit in the family vehicle even with the back seat down. had it been any longer, we might just have to tie a string to it and dragged it home. and then there is the weight.

this cd tower is not heavy. an elephant is heavy. an american is heavy. this thing is biblical. i almost had to give up an arm just trying to wrestle it home. and then there is still the not-so-enjoyable build process. but at the end of the day, i guess it's all worth it. now i have a proper altar to worship my growing record collection. and there's even room enough for one more tower next to it.

it's like walking into a record store at home. now, i don't understand the fascination with a walk-in closet, but i sure as hell know what i want when i have my own place - an entire wall of these.

there's just a slight problem left to sort out though. rearranging the records in alphabetical order. arghhhh...

+listening to: die to live by steve vai