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Over the weekend I made up a new rule; I could not let an hour pass without throwing something away or in some other way making something in the house not be here anymore. Throw away, recycle, eBay, whatever.

I chucked about 2/3 of my computer parts into a freebie pile I'll be bringing to berzerker; lots of cables, some I/O cards like PCI->IDE (100 and 133 mhz) cards, one or two video cards (AGP), some DIMMs (probably slowish), 3.5" floppy drives, a DVD-ROM drive. All working stuff, I threw the garbage out long ago. If it doesn't go at Berzerker, it'll probably go to Windycon; if not there, it'll go into the hotel's dumpster.

I also threw either out or into the freebie pile several hundred CD-R and DVD-Rs, containing mostly AVIs and VCDs of documentaries and such, though there's about 2/3 of Red Dwarf in a collection that I really did spend a lot of time making back in the pre-DVD days. I long ago made a 4-DVD set myself that incorporates all of those VCDs anyway so I don't need the originals.

I spent a lot of the weekend prowling the house like a jackal looking for something to throw away. I even set little mini-goals like "the next thing that I see that belongs to me had better have a damn good excuse to be here, or it's going." I think I did accomplish some good, but it was probably just an excuse to not go out and clean the garage, which looks like a scrapheap.