New Entertainment Center

So me and my girlfriend spent the better half of the last few days searching for and putting together a new entertainment center for the living room. After about 6-7 hours of driving around to different stores in the Bloomington-Normal, IL area, we had finally found one that we liked from Walmart. However, much to our dismay, when I went to go purchase it late last night, Walmart had only the floor model left and the model had seemed to be discontinued.

Disheartening as it was, we found another item not on the floor that seemed to be better (however a bit more expensive - $30 more). After drowning my sorrows in various liquors, and waking up and (I guess) repenting at church this morning, we decided to go with the model that we had seen the night before.

The center is extremely heavy - weighs about 200 pounds I'd say - but is extremely super cool with a "hidden" cabinet that opens up on the left side to expose 4 shelves that would hold about 15 DVDs (maybe more or less, haven't put any in). The other side is glass encased for storing my entertainment items (DVD, VCR, TiVo, XBox, and Receiver).

So, after borrowing the girlfriends' Aunt and Uncle's Durango, we hauled the thing home and spent roughly 4 hours putting the massive beast together. Only one time did I almost give in and start punching it, and that was trying to get the bottom feet & wood aligned. I'm glad I didn't though, because the finished (un-furnished with geeky items) product is superb.

So, now I get to spend tomorrow night re-wiring my entire system and making it so much nicer and easier to determine what is what. I ended up buying some wire wraps from Radio Shack so I could do this. So, I'm off to bed to dream about the full blown geekness that awaits me for tomorrow night. A solid 2 hours of rewiring, man it sure is a love/hate relationship. Hate to wire anything up, but love to use it when its done.