Flashes of Panic

One of my goals for January is to lighten my load. Literally, the odds are excellent that I will be moving before the end of the year, whatever the outcome of the graduate school conundrum, and the less I’m carrying with me, the happier I’ll be while that’s happening.

To that end, I’ve been working on ways to offload more than books. I signed up for the local Freecycle list, which has found a home for one medium appliance (replaced) and will hopefully be the destination for more stuff which has less value to me than the cost of disposing of it. Extra computer keyboards, for example, or a well-used laptop wireless card.

Also, today I registered as a seller on eBay, and I’m hoping to generate some cash from extraneous computer hardware which is no longer needed on my desk. The first item is a good example; I’m starting with a wireless bridge which we don’t need now that (a) I have an Airport Express, and (b) we’re on DSL, which allowed me to move the network hub closer to the computers using the network.

As I write this, my Mac is repeatedly writing random data to every sector of a 6 GB Firewire hard disk which will be next up. I will post links here when they are listed, in the unlikely event that anyone reading this wants some of my (relatively) inexpensive and slightly used hardware.