azryan:

Yes, let's go on and forget all the bad vibe that has come before!

I hadn't heard of the polystryene beams, sounds like a good idea. My room was built as a dedicated room over a garage that collapsed in the Northridge earthquake in '94. The city went absolutely stark raving mad with new building regulations, which I got embroiled in. After a YEAR of dickering with getting plans approved, the room finally got built over a new garage, but it cost me over TWICE as much as it would have if it was built before the earthquake. There are huge beams called 'glue-lams' that you normally see holding up the roof in warehouses at the arch of my roof, and another couple under the floor. There's a steel beam and steel posts over a foot square that are supporting the overhang of my room upstairs. The exterior is laminated with 3/4" plywood. This room ain't going nowhere!! I guess I can take comfort in the fact that it is relatively soundproof.

I used an Olympus E-10 digital camera to take the pictures of my room. I did re-size them to 1024x768 at 72dpi, but they are still relatively big, and I can't bring myself to use the jpeg compression in Photoshop at anything less than "8 or 9". Anyway, when I get over with the current project I'm doing, I'll probably be able to put up the pix agian.

Don't eat too much turkey!