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Saturday 27 February
Crazy times, crazy world. While arch bumbler Clare Short, fresh from causing chaos in school, comes forth with the astounding revelation that spies actually do some spying, I start to think that intelligence has totally deserted most of my fellow humans at this time.
Well I start to think it but the thought remains unfinished. Being fluid it runs into other areas, other spheres. How can I debate anything with people who don't have any original ideas but point at others people's works as if I should find a significance in them which they have obviously taken to heart.
Saturday 21 February
I've been busier this week than for many months - quite a change from my usual laid back attitude. A cluster of architects, surveyors and builders descended on the house midweek to make their various assessments on the past and future state of the building. On Friday I accompanied the Practice Manager as we cleared a large number of archives from the medical centre and put them into long-term storage, and then did a separate clearance of surplus junk to go to the local waste disposal facility.
And then there's eBay.... Last week they had a free listings day for small items on the Thursday. By using Turbo Lister and posting from midnight to midnight I managed to put no less than 83 items up for auction that day. To my considerable surprise a great many of them sold - and some made quite unexpectedly good prices. Naturally I was pleased but the amount of work that the exercise has generated has been quite considerable. Finding out the different postage rates for different countries, filling in "proof of posting forms (why don't they leave enough room on the form for writng an address?), answering questions by email and grappling with odd problems posed by Paypal and Ebay,solving the problems of finding suitable containers for odd sized items and trotting to the Post Office twice or more times a day in this biting Northerly wind has left me feeling pretty drained.
But pleasantly so.
I'm very impressed by eBay and by the people I've done business with, some of whom have been extremely friendly. And I've made quite a few odd mistakes here and there with people have been generous enough to forgive. I've written myself a stern note to examine things more carefully before I list them instead of finding out at the last moment that a cassette is ex-library, or a music book hasn't got its accompanying cassette.
For other weblog entries please go here or here
Sunday 8 February
Overview: it's likely that the builders will be starting work here fairly soon. In the thinly veiled disguise of js_realtime I'm attempting to lighten my burden of possessions by putting as many as I can on Ebay. Three or four vintage computers have already gone including the Spectrum which Cal bought for me in 1983 and which I used for all my word processing on my early Open university courses. I'm some mean rubber key typist!
At work I've been asked to make some pigeonholes. An interesting challenge.
I had a postcard of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady from Trevor in California. Unaccountably they don't seem to have any computers in those parts otherwise surely he'd be commenting in one of my blogs.
Surely?
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Saturday 31 January
Wednesday 21 January
In the almost lost cause of compressing my music collection I'm engaged in a seemingly endless background activity of recording cassettes track by track into Wavelab, converting them to mp3s. burning them to CDs for archiving and storing those in giant loose leaf CD folders. I've managed about 50 cassettes so far this year.
I've removed a few of the larger photos from the site in order to make room for the assorted clobber that I'm trying to sell on Ebay. If anyone sees anything they want then please feel free to email me an offer
For other weblog entries please go here or here
Sunday 11 January 2004
I've just been pruning the links on the left of the page here - some sites couldn't be reached so I've left them off for now.
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Friday 1 January 2004
A Happy New Year to all who visit here.
Taking time out to get creative with the graphics pad.
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