{"id":2227,"date":"2010-06-09T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2010-06-08T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:30:40","slug":"home-theater-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/home-theater-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Theater Apocalypse… Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just over a month ago, I posted about the water damage my apartment suffered<\/a> due to the torrential rain storms we here in Boston experienced this spring. After the first round of downpours, the building maintenance people came in and were able to patch up two of the three affected rooms. Unfortunately, because my home theater room is a small and very tightly-packed space, they were only able to do a perfunctory clean-up in there at the time. We decided to postpone the rest of the work until our schedules cleared up. Then, of course, we had more rain, and the damage spread. For the last month, I’ve been dealing with extensive crumbling plaster and mold from floor to ceiling. It’s been nasty.<\/p>\n

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Well, the time has finally come to finish off the repair work. That means that I’ve had to completely tear apart my home theater room\u2026 again. My equipment has been disconnected and moved away from the affected areas. I’ve pulled my speakers off the walls. I’ve taken all my movies off their shelves and boxed them up. Everything is covered in plastic, which is now in turn covered in paint and plaster. It’s a disaster zone in here.<\/p>\n

I feel like crying out in a Gollum voice, “My precious!… My precious!…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Living like this is truly disheartening for me. I love my home theater. It kills me that I won’t be able to watch any movies or TV on the big screen for a few days until everything is cleaned up and put back together. More than that, my main computer is in that room. Right now, I’m working from a laptop in the living room\u2026 and I hate working on a laptop. It should go without saying that this is really disrupting my life and my ability to work. Hopefully, this will be the last time I have to go through this.<\/p>\n

More photos of the devastation:<\/p>\n

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