No need to keep the trappings of a bad relationship around. On Saturday morning I trashed the brochures for the schools that either I rejected or had rejected me. No, no, I'm not bitter--it was time to move on. However, the gap those brochures left on the shelf needed to be filled. And whatever filled it might as well be organized as well. The next victims in the cleaning purge were the flat studio boxes of old holiday cards, letters, ticket stubs, general biddles, et al. My initial feeling was that those loveletters-though-I-didn't-realize-it-at-the-time from young teenagehood might as well be garbage. Ah, but sentimentality got the best of me and saved them (for now). I've always liked the line from Sons and Lovers that goes "A few days before his departure--he was just twenty--he burned his love-letters.” The ultimate goal is to slowly work my way around the apartment and remove excess before the move up north. Since 2000 I have moved twice but each of those apartments was within two blocks of the other. I know that a lot of boxes are filled with the same dust for four years. A move a few hundred miles away is a good time to shed that New Jersey dust.
My old Powerbook 540c was going to be listed on eBay as part of this dust-shedding exercise. It started up fine, although the battery is shot. The computer has a bright screen and snappy response. Oh, I loved that refurbished machine, but I've moved on to the iBook. As a word processor, the machine would be great. The only catch is that it shut off randomly on two occasions and I don't feel comfortable selling someone a machine, even for $40, if it will do that. Anyone want to make an offer on a computer that needs a retirement home or know of a reputable charity to take the thing?
