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

[gdmusumeci.livejournal.com]

I'm a little taller than average (although I'm not sure what the average height of a pilot is), but I still haven't flown/sat in a sidestick plane. In fact I think the only plane I've sat in with a stick at all was a T-38 (now, if that isn't a pilot's wet dream, I don't know what is!).

A homebuilt retractable seems pretty terrifying to me. :-) With that being said, I always liked the lines of retractables better. No clue why.

And hey, go NYSE:CRM go! ;-) Of course, I imagine I'd actually need a license first, regardless....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love center sticks, just not the side ones. (Hey, no Freudian comments from the peanut gallery out there.) And if NYSE:CRM puts you in a position to buy a Twinstar, the money spent getting a license would be a drop in the bucket! Retire, take up flying -- sounds good to me!