The movers will be here at 8 am Saturday morning, but in the meantime we have to pack up the rest
of the house. The pups go to the kennel, the cable guy is scheduled to show up tomorrow, and
the drugs still haven't kicked in. It's going to be a long couple of days.
Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart in an awesome dance
contest last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York, an impromptu
addition to O'Brien's "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on
Television Tour."
Fot the past couple weeks we've been preparing to move back to our house in South Park.
The hardest part of the move? Getting rid of stuff.
And I mean a lot of stuff. Most of the house was cleared when we moved out here to Fayette
City, but lots remained. Like a 24-year old, 32-inch, 250 pound non-functioning direct view
CRT television,
old toys, accumulated souvenirs and other debris- over 200 square feet, stacked two boxes high in some
places.
For the past several days, I've been tackling the garage. We've hauled a ton and a hundred thousand
of dollars worth of stuff that have accumulated over the past two
decades. I'm talking original cost, of course; computer equipment depreciates like unrefrigerated
milk. Roughly 20 obsolete computer systems, miles of cables, RS-232 25-pin connectors and
switchboxes, and some items even I couldn't even identify. I hope the Goodwill computer center has an
archaeologist on staff. I doubt any of them has ever seen an 8" hard-sectored Vydec floppy disk
or a horizontal auto-loading 9-track 6250 bpi SCSI tape drive.
Getting rid of stuff is a liberating experience. Still, there were some items I just
couldn't toss. My collection of DEC Professional and VAX Professional magazines.
The acrylic lightbulb paperweight I've had for 37 years. Some yearbooks. Things the kids made
for me when they were little.
That stuff is now tucked away in the storage compartment under the cellar
steps, where someday someone will, undoubtedly, toss it into a dumpster without second thought.
Now we get to move, and fill up the garage again. Life is a circle, indeed.
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