I'm Back

Apologies for the five day hiatus in posting.* My network has been down -- and by "down," I mean I disconnected all of the electronics in my living room.

Have you ever noticed that as TVs have gotten thinner, all the electronics that go with the TV have gotten bigger? When I bought my first stereo receiver some thirty years ago, it was 11-3/4" deep; just deep enough to sit comfortably on a twelve inch bookshelf. The stereo receiver I bought three years ago is eighteen inches deep. This of course means it doesn't fit on any furniture built more than few years ago. 

This includes my Mum's antique record cabinet which passed to me. You would think that something built to hold a record player -- records being a foot across and needing at least a bit of space surrounding them -- would likely have enough space for a modern receiver. In my case, you'd be wrong. If you shut the doors on the cabinet, you basically would've smashed all the knobs on the front. Speaking of doors, solid wood doors don't really get along with infrared remotes. As a result, the corner of my living room was something of a disaster with a nest of wires surrounding a really inappropriate cabinet with doors that were constantly flopping around. 

So when I found a twenty inch deep bookshelf at World Market I decided it was time for a change. So now I have a shelf unit that actually holds my equipment, my remote controls reliably work, and the nest of wires is now permanently sorted out and installed behind wall mounted conduit. 

And it only took me five days to get it all installed (more on that later).

In any case, my network is now back online so I can once again update the world. I'm sure the world will be grateful. 


* So much for my readership. I'm pretty sure five days of radio silence violates every rule of blogging.