Life
We're moving.
From an 11 room Victorian with basement, attic, and garage where the two of us do not rattle around because of all of the good junk I accumulate, to a 2 BR & a den condo with no basement, attic, or garage other than parking space. It does have a nice view.
I enjoy computers and migrated into the software business, at home as well as professionally. Since I have retired, I've been associated with a couple of organizations, and people have donated castoffs to them. Which I have accepted. Trouble was, the organizations had better stuff by that time from other sources. So I had this stuff in my attic, basement, garage. As well as my old stuff, which I didn't want to let go for compatibility concerns.
So I have taken 14 or 15 systems to recycling over the past month. Only a few printers. Other obsolete hardware. One I took today was a 30 year old Apple ][ with a SN around 1400. Broke my heart to think about it, but, in fact, the last time I got it going, fifteen years ago, I spent half an hour reseating chips to get off enough oxide so that the circuits would actually run. So I'm down to a mere 8 (not counting PDA, HP100, cellphones, etc.) That's enough so we can show the house. (We got on the cover of the local Picket Fence! Neither DW nor I are in any way cover persons, but we live in a cover house!) But we have to get rid of a lot more stuff before the end of the year.
So I haven't been as active this last month and will probably be less active than my normal low rate for the rest of the year.
One good thing that happened a couple weeks ago:
We took off an afternoon to visit the construction site of our new residence and make some choices. We were in time that I could specify where I wanted cat5 drops; I hope I still feel the same way when I move in!
Then we went to a nearby restaurant that we knew of and celebrated our 49th anniversary. It was Friday the 13th, but 49 is 7 squared, so that defended against any residual bad luck. Very nice dinner, and the staff were very nice to us.
From an 11 room Victorian with basement, attic, and garage where the two of us do not rattle around because of all of the good junk I accumulate, to a 2 BR & a den condo with no basement, attic, or garage other than parking space. It does have a nice view.
I enjoy computers and migrated into the software business, at home as well as professionally. Since I have retired, I've been associated with a couple of organizations, and people have donated castoffs to them. Which I have accepted. Trouble was, the organizations had better stuff by that time from other sources. So I had this stuff in my attic, basement, garage. As well as my old stuff, which I didn't want to let go for compatibility concerns.
So I have taken 14 or 15 systems to recycling over the past month. Only a few printers. Other obsolete hardware. One I took today was a 30 year old Apple ][ with a SN around 1400. Broke my heart to think about it, but, in fact, the last time I got it going, fifteen years ago, I spent half an hour reseating chips to get off enough oxide so that the circuits would actually run. So I'm down to a mere 8 (not counting PDA, HP100, cellphones, etc.) That's enough so we can show the house. (We got on the cover of the local Picket Fence! Neither DW nor I are in any way cover persons, but we live in a cover house!) But we have to get rid of a lot more stuff before the end of the year.
So I haven't been as active this last month and will probably be less active than my normal low rate for the rest of the year.
One good thing that happened a couple weeks ago:
We took off an afternoon to visit the construction site of our new residence and make some choices. We were in time that I could specify where I wanted cat5 drops; I hope I still feel the same way when I move in!
Then we went to a nearby restaurant that we knew of and celebrated our 49th anniversary. It was Friday the 13th, but 49 is 7 squared, so that defended against any residual bad luck. Very nice dinner, and the staff were very nice to us.