my fellow arcadians
! you should know by now that the apartment i'm living in at the moment is only a temporary solution. i'm planning on moving (hopefully in summer), trying to find a place big enough to house all my games - which is not going to be easy
. anyway, it was my birthday two weeks ago and for that event i had planned to "upgrade" my existing gameroom a notch so that my guests wouldn't have to walk, sit and eat between tables, games and cat toilets. i'd like to show you (in short) what i have done and (later) how it looks like right now - including a short video tour!
let's start with some electronic stuff! my living room is very big, one half of it is reserved for my games, the other half for television and computer stuff. i have four ceiling fluorescent lights installed, the problem is that the wiring of those wasn't the way i had hoped it would be. in order to change that (i don't want to bore you with too many details), i "flew in" my good friend markus who works for a huge german electricity company. he's the guy to ask when it comes to high voltages …
the first thing he did was check the wiring in order to find out whether there could be an easy fix to the problem - of course there wasn't!
the thing with markus is that while his electrical knowledge is great, he has the tendency to break stuff when he's working at my place: he broke three energy saving lamps within one hour when he helped us set up electricity, he crashed my moon patrol 5 minutes after dragging it up into my apartment and now - about 2 minutes into this operation - here's the first casuality of war (he tries to hide it in his hand - but without success
)
no easy fix here either
in order to make this work, we have to rewire the fluorescent lamps - and in order to make me understand what we're doing, markus has made one of his famous sketches
i'm moving a couple of my games out of the way to give us enough working space (note my christmas tree in the background - it was the end of january
)
down it goes
off it comes
rewired it gets
success!!!
i also installed a couple of
power managers (for easy power-up), tons of extensions cords, cable trenches, some more fluoerescent lights behind the games AND a whole new curtain system which seperates my gameroom nicely from the rest of the living-room. i can easily close-off the area as a surprise for visitors who have never been to my place - works like a charm.
my cat gnocchi is also curious about what's hiding behind those orange curtains, but he has to wait just a little while longer for the grand opening to the public - and so will you
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STAY TUNED!!!
