Current location:	Ashford, CT
Current mood:	sore

My poor back.
So today I moved the majority of my boxed up stuff to Ashford, where it all sits in a giant pile until Wed, when I bring the rental truck in to haul it all to PA.

Being on the third floor did not help. Dee and Clay did help, giving me the use of their pickup and helping to carry stuff.

I got some great deals at the hamfest. But the whole time I was asking myself out loud, why am I buying MORE stuff when I am moving in 3 days? Because it was cool stuff I needed and cheap, thats why. :-)

Working with electronics as a hobby can be a pain. You need 10,000 different thins on hands because you never know what a particular project will require. And no matter how much stuff you have, you always need something you are out of, or never new existed. But you get to make cool stuff, so it ends up being worth it.

Of course 75% of my crap is just that, crap. Stuff that may or may not be neat, but is not really all that useful. I have thrown away, given away and sold a humge amount of things, and when I get to PA I'll be cleaning out my stuff in storage there, but I'll still have quite a bit.

I have a hard time giving away, selling or throwing away gifts too. I just this week threw out a STICK my Dad gave me for Christmas. (It was a joke gift, but I still kept it for 5 months!) I need to be put on a watch list for potential hoarders. I could turn into one of those guys who fills his house with newspapers. But mine will be filled with broken computers. :-)

Back to Framingham now.. to my empty apartment with a computer on the floor and some clothes. Cleanup time now.. packing the few bits left and tidying up.