I did several things, picked up & put a bunch of stuff in their proper place. Including finally getting yarn projects managed via utilization of the empty bin stack that used to hold stuff in my Vegas storage locker. Now all yarn projects except what I’m working on and a skein and current flower pieces for the afghan as well as leftover yarn from recent projects are stored in “WIP”,”Misc”,”Afghan” and tucked away on the top of the magazine shelves. That was a big one that was bothering me for a while.
Dishes are at least IN the kitchen, put away the beading box, gathered dirty laundry into hamper where belongs.
Worked on List #55 which is upgrade computers by finding and writing down the info about computer specs: “Snark” is an Intel P3 440mhz & 128 megs RAM. The other is Intel P2 400mhz & 128 megs RAM too. Snark has several drives but needs to be reorganized as C:\ partition is only 2 gigs. 2nd computer has only an 8 gig drive. Need to add in one of my spare drives.
Next step is to look at the shell of Ryan’s old computer (drives were pulled and put into Snark) and also my old tower and see what components they have and what can be swapped around. If I can’t resurrect the tower, perhaps can reuse the memory & cpu?
Exciting stuff eh? But it was what I needed to be doing so am glad that I started.
So far this morning, I’ve gone through a box of miscellaneous stuff & the sewing crap that was dumped on my table from sewing Vincent’s Purdue cardigan. Now the sewing stuff is “energy friendly” and not “energy draining” to look at. The round cylinder from a just finished container of rawhide chews for the dogs became a perfect thing to finally contain all the loose sewing machine bits & things like pins & needles.
Also went through a box of miscellaneous stuff and was able to sort some of it out for trash. Found: a copy of PetPress featuring a compilation article on IggyGate. Set that aside for when I work on my book (#60) as a reference of sources. I didn’t realize that Marina had given an interview for the O’Reilly Factor! That should be useful. I was dismayed to see that the posted “what would you have done” continued to say that Marina should have worked with the family. SHE DID! It’s the family (& Ellen) that refused to co-operate.
Another found item was a packet of cards saved from approximately 1994-1996. I had to stop reading them when I realized that there were cards from Grandma. I have ones from my Grandpap too but he usually just signed his name. But looks like in the first couple months at college, Grandma sent me a lot of cards and wrote in each one. Reading a couple of those and then one from my Grandpap that had a short note about how proud he was of me and wishing me well in school, that started to turn on the waterworks so I put them away. But of course writing about it just now got it started again.
Anyways, I’ve always wondered what to do with the cards, I know a lot of people just throw them away and I know I’ve taken to throwing them away more in recent years. However, I just found a great reason to keep them. Those cards are probably the only tangible communications I have from Grandma & Grandpap.
I need to figure out what to do with them though, I don’t want to keep having packets of stuff that I’m keeping because I don’t want to throw away but that are just things to store that add to the general “have too much crap I don’t use” problem.
Need to look into this at some point.
In the meantime, need to get something to eat and try to get ready in case that tenative home check for this afternoon gets confirmed. Might also break out the sewing machine as well and do a set of dog scarves. Or two. That’s another thing for my ToDo List… figure out a “saucy” way of storing them so the sets stay together and look pretty. I keep finding various ones all over the place.