Looking for the Windows XP disc that came with my old, non-functioning Compaq laptop involved going through a whole honkin' lot of stuff in boxes and bags in the home office/upstairs clutter dumping ground. Heh. Some of what turned up:
- A tshirt from Yuri's Night 2007 at Moffett that I didn't remember I owned
- A really cute cherry-print dress, still with tags on, that I probably bought on clearance at Hot Topic, um, I'll say "four-ish years ago" because it's currently two sizes too small
- A baseball cap I've been looking for since I started packing for last summer's beach trip
- Folders full of personal stuff from my stint at SAIC
- Four or five web development reference books that I forgot I owned, in various states of obsolescence
- The graveyard of obsolete tech - A Palm Pilot Personal, a Visor, a Creative Nomad MP3 player that's close to a decade old (the docking station has a parellel port!) - sitting next to a big stack of equally obsolete but even less useful tech books (WP 5.1? Cold Fusion V3? The Llama book - the pink version?)
- An expired (as of mid-March) $25 Amazon Rewards gift certificate (!)
- $50 in unexpired Amazon Rewards gift certificates (!!)
- A USB 2.0 Cardbus PCMCIA adapter
- A Firewire card (which promptly went into the new machine)
- The letter from the state unclaimed property division telling me what they've got on record as belonging to me, which I can claim now that I've replaced my social security card (I'd been wondering where that ended up.)
- Probably 15 lbs of various papers to sort and throw out or shred as appropriate
- A stuffed Stitch dressed as a pirate
- A Sun/Java travel mug that also dates back to my stint at SAIC.
- Solaris 8 for SPARC
- Some quilting fabric that should've been downstairs with the fabric and yarn stashes.
Dear god, I need to take a weekend and just shovel that room out.
Oh yeah, and I
still didn't find the XP disc I was looking for. :-P
