Oh Man, the STUFF

When we moved out of Stoughton, I took a bunch of old computer-related stuff to the office and it has been living under the conference table, taking the entire space under there.  I never did go back through it… until now.

I can’t believe some of the stuff.  I was amused to find a bag containing a US Robotics modem my father gave me because he no longer needed it after getting a defective unit replaced, and to see his name spelled “Moshel” on the return slip.  I can just picture a clerk writing the name as it sounded, not asking or accounting for a P.E.I/Massachusetts/Northern Vermont accent.

The shocker was that the rest of the bag contained three large cookbooks.  Cookbooks!  At the office, lost to whatever memory I might have had of them being given to me.  Actually, I believe it’s one cookbook in the form of three three ring binders.

Then there was an envelope with genealogy information from great aunt Pearl, in a box among other things mostly unrelated, except for an empty Family Tree Maker box.  The version?  Unnumbered.  Apparently the first.

I found out why I thought I was missing things on floppy, despite my copious boxes of floppies out where I knew about them.  I forgot that those were fewer than half the total.  I found, for instance, an unopened copy of DOS workgroups (networking) add-on on a 5 1/4” floppy.  And the 5 1/4” DOS 3.3 floppies for my Packard-Bell 286.

I could probably go on about stuff I am forgetting offhand.  Sadie had an exciting day, hanging out with me.  She’s very proud of the tiny Band-Aid on her right thumb, from where she got an effusive cut from something that should have been unable to cut her.  I knew I should leave the first aid kit there until the end.

Okay, time for supper, then we shovel the kids into bed before Chuck, Heroes and Journeyman are on.  Woohoo!

Posted by on 09/24 at 05:01 PM

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