My neighbor is in the process of moving out. He apparently got all butt-hurt because the landlord raised the rent, so he decided to move into a more expensive apartment. The reasoning eludes me, but apparently there is more storage space and he can consolidate all his worldly goods and the garage that comes with the apartment lets him get out of his storage rental.
When he was moving, I watched the three “young bucks and a truck” spend three to four hours carrying furniture and boxes to almost fill the floor space of a 25-foot box truck with stuff from his apartment. I know the dimensions of the space and that came out of a 700 sq ft apartment.
For some reason, watching that process made me go through and do another evaluation concerning the excess of my possessions. Now, for those of you who occasionally read this blog, you have been patient in hearing me nattering on about this, sorry about having to watch me beat the horse carcass again.
So today I am grimly looking at my electronic fetish. It has always been a problem. At least today it is at a point where the total of the devices takes up less than a cubic foot. But it is still ridiculous. Television (wall mounted 32” so no floor space taken). I think this stays. I don’t plug it in until October (9th week of the NFL season) and I unplug it after the Super Bowl. It stays.
Three e-ink Kindles (4th generation that I bought back in 2012, a 10th gen oasis that I bought in ‘19, and the big mistake, a Kindle Scribe that I bought three years ago. So at least one of these e-inks models have to go, maybe two as I am getting progressively more uncomfortable with Amazon’s domineering control of the e-books I “own” (they have now openly stated that I only have a license to read them). I am considering giving away the scribe, to big and clunky for comfort.
I have an iPhone that stays. It is my only phone and I have no desire for a land line. I have finally come to grips with the way that particular cookie has crumbled. I am not fond of it, but there are a lot of things that I am not fond of.
Finally the ones that embarrass me the most. I have a beat up old Kindle Fire 10” that I bought back in 2018. I use it to watch/listen to interviews and such. But it is slowing down and the sleazy bastards at amazon are not supporting the software anymore and it is getting clunkier and clunkier. I just bought a new model. I don’t especially like the idea, but I have to make a space, and for now, these are the cheapest tablets around of decent quality, but you do have to spend time and effort getting around the “walled garden” that the muddy river wants you to live in.
Finally there is the two laptops both of them ancient and both sort of “hobbyish”. There is an ancient MacBook Air (2012) that I bought for $80.00 and used it to learn how to install Linux on Apple hardware. Then there is a Lenovo thinkpad that I got for free (I did have to dig out an old SSD to get it running), one of these has to go.
I figure at a minimum, I need to get rid of one, perhaps two e-ink kindles, an old kindle fire, and one of the laptops.
Next will be the painful part, addressing my kitchen equipment fetish.
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