Read Some Blogs, Pam; You Look Tired

Today I did some cleaning downstairs (and that's about all I did, judging by my unmarked To-Do list).  As many of you know, my family is notoriously obsessed with keeping old treasures from years past and "filing them away" in places that will preserve such relics for centuries unnoticed.

Being a parttime computer junkie, I decided to dig through our computer drawers and see what I could find in them.

I can't recite everything that each contained, but rest assured that once I was finished, the drawers were quite empty and the garbage was quite full.

Observe some of the amusements I found (and promptly discarded):

-A printed list of every email address my family has ever received mail from or written to (or simply exchanged on paper with someone)

-The user guide to our previous computer, and two printers previous

-Unopened install discs for Windows 98 gift card-making software.

-Three packs of various photo papers

-The Walmart price tag from our first computer

-Instructions on how to set up Dial-Up

-Print copies of various Explorer windows, with penciled-in folders and some items crossed out

-An external Zip Drive (with a zip disk inside still)

-Limited Warranty fine print for 512 MB RAM we bought and installed two years ago

-A Frontier "We Installed Your Internet While You Were Out" door handle card

-"Barbie Salsa" audio CD (contains one (1) song)  (which I admit, I listened to)  (and copied into my iTunes library)

-50 floppy disk labels (and about 5 Zip Disk labels)

-This After-Thanksgiving-Day-Sale clipping:

(The Super Nintendo went out of production in 1997.  Just for anyone crunching the numbers on this stuff.)

So what's my point with all this stuff?  No point.  Just Sharing Time, or maybe Show and Tell.  And a firm resolution that you will never pick this stuff out of my cabinets and computer desks (except maybe that Barbie Salsa CD, since it offers mildly redeeming value)