[Coco] Status of the CoCo Lounge

[Roger Taylor]

At 04:26 PM 10/2/2007, you wrote:
>Well Mark, it has been like living in a warehouse, literally. Boxes and Coco
>parts strewed everywhere and in my closet , boxes piled to the roof. I could
>not even have people come over for the last year, as there was no place even
>to sit, as my living room was just covered in boxes. I had only the couch
>and this computer to sit at and a path cleared so I could watch the TV.
>Its probably for the best that I was single at this time.
>-Glen


Ah ha!  The reason throws itself at us.  :)  I'm actually laughing, 
not at you ofcourse, but at how this happens to all computer 
buffs.  I was married from 1997 to 2001 and I watched my CoCo 
cluttered bachelor apartment dwindle into "my corner of the 
bedroom".  One of the bedrooms was my office but it soon became my 
daughter's room, and over time the wife just didn't approve of my lab 
slash apartment, even if that part was behind closed doors in two 
rooms.  when I was single I used to keep those doors closed when I 
had a lot of company over, but sometimes somebody would accidentally 
end up in my CoCo zone and I'd hear things like "Whoa!!".   Ofcourse, 
that could have been the large poster I had on the wall of a 
bikini-clad beach babe.  :)  Next to it was a huge map of the U.S. 
where I thumbtacked the locations of my Projector-3 customers, but I 
doubt that the map had the same effect on the eyes.

Those were the days.  Actually, now I'm single again, but a full time 
dad, so I can't have the posters, but the room I'm in now (the 
CoCo3.com room) :) has become a semi-lab just from be walking in and 
out of the room.  I walk in, I bring more stuff, I can't find a place 
for it, it goes on the floor or I shift stuff around to the point 
where I start making temporary tables out of boxes, filing cabines, 
work benches, etc.  When does it end.  One day maybe I'll build me 
what I started just before my divorce, a backyard lab...  a portable 
16x20 shop with a wrap-around worktable big enough to hold 
anything.  I had everything but the siding on it, and ended up 
selling it to the landlord for peanuts since I couldn't bring it with 
me.   Darnit.   Anyway, I've organized this room more over the past 
few weeks and have set up my work bench for building CoCo gadgets and 
projects, repairing CoCos, etc.  This will also be my PCB etching 
table soon, I'm sure.

Back to the married thing... I can picture your wife or girlfriend 
walking in for the first time, and tripping over the cord from a 
floppy drive case and then having to walk through a maze of CoCo's 
set out for decoration.  :)  Then she says, "if I'm moving in here... 
this has got to go!".  Priceless.

What they don't know is that people always go back to what they're 
familiar with, so over time I'd expect you to (for the love of the 
CoCo world), just start periodically placing decorations about the 
place, like 1 every month, starting with a CoCo service manual 
mounted in a picture frame, then onto things like sitting a CoCo 
smack on top of the entertainment center so you'll know 
everything's...... "OK" from time to time.  ;)

You know you can't leave us, Glen.  You can clean up the place, but 
once a CoCoNut, always a CoCoNut.

Cheers,



-- 
Roger Taylor