Ok, busy trying to get the place packed up so I can move it all to the new apartment on the other side of the building. Not worrying about getting everything boxed up because I’m only going to have to take it out of them after moving it practically next door. Still, I’ve got about 15 or 20 boxes cluttering up the living room and that’s only the bookshelves!
Most of the stuff will come off the shelves, closets or cabinets and go right back into them in the new place. The wife wants to box every single item up, but I’m resisiting. Besides, she’s going to be too busy studying to help much anyway.
Yes, we have entirely too much Stuff. Some of it we need to keep, some of it I’m sure we can get rid of and never miss it. The problem is deciding what’s what. Inevitably I’ll pick up something that should go into the crap pile, have a look and then it ends up in the keep pile.
Reminds me of a kid’s book I used to read. Something about a little boy who is supposed to clean up his room, so he gets two boxes, labels one KEEP and the other THROW AWAY. Things get put into the KEEP box, other Things get put into the THROW AWAY box. Then he starts going through the Things in the THROW AWAY box and decides it should really be in the KEEP box (because you never really know when a thingamabob or a doodad will come in handy). And then eventually everything ends up in the KEEP box. What I liked most about the book was the processes the boy went through to decide whether or not to keep the Thing.
Great book. I wish I could remember what it was called.
Oh, another one!
Gee, I wasn’t expecting that next one to come quite so soon, but there it is, Tropical Depression 2 forming in the mid-Atlantic. According to the NHC’s first discussion,
THE DEPRESSION IS MOVING WESTWARD OR 280 DEGREES AT 18 KNOTS…
STEERED BY THE WINDS SOUTH OF THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE. HOWEVER…
LARGE SCALE MODELS FORECAST A LARGE TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN COAST
OF THE UNITED STATES. THIS TROUGH WILL ERODE THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE
FORCING THE CYCLONE TO TURN MORE TO NORTHWEST AND NORTH DURING THE
LAST PORTION OF THE FORECAST.
Oh sweet, NHC does RSS feeds now!
Whoa, hey, where’d that come from?!
Ok, so while I was blissfully out of touch last week apparently tropical storm (now hurricane) Alex popped up right off the coast of South Carolina. No doubt the cause of my flight delays on Sunday. Fortunately it had minimal impact on South Carolina aside from making it a good weekend for surfers off Folly Beach and not much significant impact for the affected bits of North Carolina.
Next!
We are squishy inside
There are times when my wife tells me far more anatomy than I really want to know. Like how the lungs of her cadaver are all squishy, and the sounds it makes when she squeezes them. She says it’s cool. Me, all I need to know is that there are hard bits protecting the soft squishy bits and that keep the squishy bits from collapsing into a pile of goo.
It’s dead Jim
My wife’s cellphone has finally given up the ghost. If you squeeze and twist it just right, you can get it to start up, but then it dies again. I figure all the times she’s dropped it has knocked something loose inside the phone. So now I have to go find her another one. I was looking at the Motorola V400 because it’s a pretty nice looking phone, but it has no IR port. She uses the IR to beam stuff between her PDA and phone, so now I’m trying to decide if I should just replace the Nokia 6360 with another one or go with the 3200. The 3200 does a little more than the 6360, but it has a smaller battery which might not go over too well with the wife.
This is what Nokia puts on their cell phone battery pages:
Replacing a Battery?
A new Nokia phone may cost you less than a battery, after rebates, with a new wireless service plan.
I wonder if this is a sign of how much of a commodity cell phones have become, when your batteries last longer and cost more than your cell phone…