De-crapify should be in the dictionary

Saturday was spent down in my basement again, and trying to clean up the mess that’s my office/computer area. I’m wanting to recycle all the old computer stuff that I can, so I spent the time sorting hardware that can be recycled from stuff that can’t. It’s amazing what I’ve collected over the last 14 years or so that I’ve been messing with computers. I have 5 towers, 2 laptops, 2 Zip drives, 1 Jazz drive, a bunch of modems (I found a 14.4 internal modem if you can believe that), not to mention a plethora of cables. Some I can use, some I can sell, some I can recycle, a lot are getting tossed (apparently I have a soft spot in my heart for phone cords. Lord knows why, but I had 30+ phone cords…all tangled up).

I have a couple of those big Rubbermaid containers that I kept those cables in. And with the exception of half a dozen or so, all the cables were tangle in a heap in there. Phone cords, SCSI cables, power cables, power bricks, MIDI cables, Compact Flash Drives, even a hand-held scanner. All tangled together. It probably took me 3 hours to untangle it all. In between this, I was getting Cody’s computer back to a working state (nothing a format and re-install can’t handle…), and looking over at the bookcases, deciding which books to toss. Some are horribly out of date.

Sunday was spent in the same manner, this time in the garage. We cleaned it out, tossed a bunch of crap, and then moved everything back in. Right in the middle of the day when it was like 94 degrees outside. That was just dumb. So Gail and I camped on the couch the rest of the afternoon while the kids were occupied and watch Casino Royale, and had chips and salsa and queso and beer. Not a bad way to wind down.