Let it go, let it go

[cjsmith]

MANY things freecycled this weekend, including some stuff I am stunned that anyone took. Rob was gracious enough to list it all and arrange for pickups.

People claimed, get this,
- complete plans, blueprints and instructions for building a Lancair IV! (THREE responses!)
- a big bag of towels dating back to our first apartment together
- 80 empty wine bottles
- a car stereo from approximately 1987
- used pillows
- three years of aviation magazines
- sheets and pillowcases worn to wonderful softness, and frayed a bit
- some really bad books
- a candle/incense holder that's basically a sand-pit on a stand (so top-heavy that if you breathe on it it pours sand all over your floor)
- a light fixture that looks like a War of the Worlds ship landing

Plus some stuff that was probably useful. It's amazing.

(Now if they'd only come and pick it up.)

I've also thrown away a big pile of crap. I finally pitched the model airplane my ex-housemate started building. I had to admit that no, I am never going to finish someone else's model airplane. I can't even get my butt in gear to finish MY model airplane. I also admitted that I am never going to find a lovely dark green laundry bin to replace my broken one, and I pulled the spare one out of the upstairs closet to use. Poof, no more duct-taped broken handles. In retrospect I'm amazed I stuck with that thing for so long. (Hey, Bay Area people, if any of you are still reading: how do you recycle an entire laundry basket?)

That upstairs room is starting to look almost nice. Next weekend we do the OTHER closet.

Comments

Re: grrrrr I hate LJ

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, I *hate* that. Mozilla-based browsers (Firefox, Opera, Netscape) tend to save the response so you can "go back" and still have it; Internet Explorer (and probably others) doesn't, and that continually bugs me. Grrrr!

Re: grrrrr I hate LJ

[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

thank you. I feel better. It is nice to be able to vent to an empathetic audience.

Re: grrrrr I hate LJ

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It was probably one of those "couldn't generate a talkid" errors, eh? Those are annoying. For some reason I see one and think "someone didn't allocate enough resources when coding this". (Not that I have ANY idea how it's written.)

Re: grrrrr I hate LJ

[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

yes, it was. My thoughts (also not necessarily relevant): LJ got confused about who was who, and/or doesn't like too many people doing operations that go to the same page. When I got the comment-form-page, there were no comments on this entry. I took a while writing the (lost) comment. After the error there were several other comments. So, I think LJ couldn't keep track of all of us. Talkid's get squashed. Bad.

I also noticed that the comment I'd posted at night that had definately disappeared reappeared WITH A COMMENT FROM YOU. So, um, I figure that it disappeared WHILE you were writing. Which brings me back to LJ possibly having some issues about what goes on while things are edited....

Re: grrrrr I hate LJ

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

I actually *do* know how the LJ code is written (it's OSS, you know), and it's possibly the worst codebase on the planet. It's pretty common knowledge that the only reason LJ exists is because of the community. If it were to launch today, there is no way it would survive.

Re: grrrrr I hate LJ

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's OSS -- my comment was a nod to the fact that I am griping without taking the tiniest step toward educating myself or toward helping. :-)