The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #131150   Message #2972247
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
25-Aug-10 - 12:17 AM
Thread Name: De-Clutter: Aug 2010 (w/ accountability)
Subject: RE: De-Clutter: Aug 2010 (w/ accountability)
The mound of laundry in the living room is finally folded and put away. Many of the dishes are done, a few await in the sink for tomorrow. I have cleared some but not all of the papers on the table in the kitchen and the little table next to my file. More for tomorrow.

I keep stumbling across things that go to the computer my son built. Some he may need, so they're going in a pile for a box to go out one of these days. He finally has the operating system he wanted, and he's doing the troubleshooting with the setup now. When you buy a computer from a manufacturer, they've done all of that. He built this one, so he's struggling to get some things to display or work properly. It's good experience!

A smallish load of laundry goes in this evening. I'll be cleaning and washing and sorting for a while.

I picked out another item for eBay, it's a British knife my father picked up in Burma during WWII. It could be worth $30 or $300. I've found a place to poke around to find more information, but it is a totally disorganized forum. I'm making notes about what it is and what it isn't (it ISN'T a Bowie knife, for example, it doesn't have the correct point. It is a Sheffield steel blade that has a "drop point" and various good stamps to make it interesting. It scares me to have the thing in the house. It's beautiful in it's craftsmanship, but it is a heavy-duty hunting knife.

Our high today was 93 and we had some rain. What a great follow-up to yesterday's horrible hot day. I'm looking forward to the rest of the week being more comfortable.

SRS