Place: Firehouse Subs
Lunch: Smokehouse Beef & Cheddar Brisket, chili, cherry limeade
This sandwich is SO GOOD. It reminds me of that time I was at Firehouse Subs eating a Smokehouse Beet & Cheddar Brisket and...oh, wait...that's right now.
I just replaced my home desk. I didn't need a new desk. It was one of those moments when I'm in IKEA for something else and happen to see something that looks amazing and I must have. "Oh wow! This would be a far more efficient use of space! I could put this here and that there and..." That happens to me a lot at IKEA. Everything from light fixtures to media shelves to Kool-Aid pitchers. So I got the desk...like two months ago. Hauled the boxes upstairs, and thought "I'll get to it later."
This weekend, I demolished the old desk (literally, it's in pieces mostly in the garbage can) and set the new one up. Or least mostly up. It's done enough to get my computer and equipment up and running again. I still have to assemble the upper shelves. I'll get to that later.
The whole project was way harder than I thought it would be. Not because of the new desk assembly process (though some of IKEA's instructions require circus acrobat maneuvering) or even removal of the old desk (though I now wonder how I ever got it up to the third floor when I moved here). It was clearing all of the stuff I had accumulated on the old desk. Piles and piles of ridiculous things. Things that I tossed on the desk with the idea that "I'll get to it later." So what should have been a couple hour project turned into an afternoon of sorting through things I need to keep and things I don't.
Said things included:
1.44" floppy disks. Dozens of them. They were hiding behind my monitor. I haven't had a computer with a 1.44" disk drive in at least a decade. How did these make their way to the Townhouse of Solitude from the old place?
Cassettes. TDK, Sony, even some Maxells. A couple dozen, many blank and still in the shrink wrap. A few are marked "air checks" from my last couple of radio gigs. I may digitize those. I have a USB cassette player for digitizing that has never left the box. Not sure where it is, though. Not on the desk.
I'll get to it later.
An Econo Foods "Econo" loyalty card. As far as I know, there hasn't been an Econo Foods in business in years.
A LaQuinta Gold Rewards card. Haven't stayed at a LaQuinta in at least five years. They drove me off by insisting on making carbons of my credit card. In this day and age? Who runs LaQuinta, the GEICO cavemen?
A Bi-Mart membership card.
An Incredible Universe membership card.
An Egghead Software "Cue" card.
A Marriott room key card.
A Tim Horton's Timcard.
Several Frontier Airlines tickets. I haven't flown Frontier since at least 2011. It's sad what that once fun airline has become.
A Burger Chef coin ("doubloon") from 1969 commemorating their 1,000th location with 5 cents off any purchase.
A Series 1957 one dollar silver certificate.
Video editing software that was never unboxed or installed.
A copy of a wedding reception video I made for friends who never watched it, let alone cared it existed.
A fortune cookie fortune that reads "Constant grinding can turn an iron rod into a needle".
Three old wallets.
A Century Theaters employee name tag with no name on it.
A several years old McDonald's Monopoly game piece.
Several Hardee's coupons sent to me over the years by a friend who was an area franchisee.
A Wienerschnitzel golden 50th anniversary wiener antenna topper.
A Del Taco take-out menu.
A Huddle House take-out menu.
A petrified Tootsie Roll. (Still in the wrapper.)
A ticket to a Van Halen concert that was cancelled.
Windows XP software.
Windows Vista software.
A Plantronics bluetooth headset.
A VHS tape full of Beachcombers episodes.
But the most pleasant surprise of all...the Canadian Mint Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games coin collection. I'd COMPLETELY forgotten about this.
Most of the rest of the stuff is old papers, some important, some not. For now, everything went into a box for future sorting.
I'll get to it later.
