So in preparation for the fall yard sale I've been going over the garage (and today, up into the attic) and working on cleaning out what was left in boxes from when we first moved in, almost 8 years ago. I've been a lot harsher in making the keep/discard choice, and have put a lot of stuff into the "to be sold" pile (or outright trashed). Up on the block will be a whole stack of books (the first time I've really culled the stacks of books in, well, forever), plus a bunch of other assorted stuff (including my copy of the board games Careers, Civil War and NATO: The Next War in Europe). A large part of the "trash" pile includes pretty much all of the tchotchkes that I collected at my first two professional conferences (LISA '99 and a SANS conference from around that time frame as well).
Continue reading Housekeeping of the non-blogging sort.
