The Eclectic Interweb

It’s autumn here not spring but nonetheless I’ve been doing some serious cleaning and clearing over the past few weeks.

I started in the disaster area we called ‘the computer room’ but was actually a repository for any junk we had no home for including any technology not currently in use and boxes of kids toys that were jumbled, had pieces missing or broken.

I’ve never been any great shakes at throwing things out. I’ve hoarded all my life keeping stuff just in case it came in handy one day. To be fair in the past lots of it *did* come in handy, but as our level of affluence increased… so did the level of junk because it was kept but never used. Maybe something finally clicked in my brain that this was a somewhat psychotic way of thinking because things are finally moving… out the door 🙂

To begin I concentrated on the piles of toys and junk so the eldest could use the back room for her eleventh birthday party next week. All the broken toys, jigsaws with pieces missing, broken dolls, etc went out… and we could see the floor again.

Temprarily all the computers and IT gear (cables etc) are piled in our bedroom but that pile too has a date with destiny. I think in total I have 14 computers here, most pretty dire now but still functioning. I’ll probably keep the ancient laptop, the 286 and one of the Win 98 models ‘for old times sake’ and to let me access the hundreds of 5¼ and 3½ disks I still have (if I ever feel the need)… but the rest will be leaving on the next train to dumpsville. I suppose I’ll strip out the HDD’s and maybe the CD drives… you never know when you might need them… arrrgghhh… I’m already back collecting ‘stuff’ and I’ve not dumped them yet!! Ok… just the HDD’s until I’m sure there’s nothing on them I might need.

So… if anyone needs miles of cables, modems, video cards, USB/PS2 converters and the like… you’d better get in quick ‘cos some totter will be finding a technological pot of gold at the bottom of our drive soon. 😀