Stuff accumulates.
Over thirty years (off and on) in the gaming hobbies (RPGs, miniature painting, wargaming, etc.) and things can really start to accumulate. The horror of it is, though, that items are also continually disappearing.
Take, for example, the simple and ubiquitous box cutter. Dozens of these bladed contraptions roamed the confines of many a teenager's bedroom, but a grown man can't find a single one. They were never thrown away, and yet only a single cutter remains in the junk drawer of the computer desk. The same thing happens with hobby supplies.
A pay stub from 2002 is easier to find than the most recent hobby knife. Spare phone numbers, perhaps from a business associate or blind date--it's impossible to say which without actually calling it, are more common than a once treasured (and still much desired) board game! It's as if there is an inverse relationship determining how likely things are to disappear; the more likely an item is to be useful or treasured, the more likely it is to disappear one day.
At least DVDs and CDs stay mostly on shelves specifically for them. Those stay in place (mostly). There may even be a couple that reside on those shelves through undetermined means.
But where, oh where, is that hobby knife? It's at the store waiting to be purchased. Now it has a new home with other hobby tools of its ilk. Maybe this one will decide to stay.
Three reviews are being worked on, I hope to have the first posted near the end of the month. Reviews four and five are in the planning stages but might make it before review two or three.
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