In bullet-point format

[narcasse]

• In the course of mass decluttering I’ve found my old art materials again. I might not do anything with them just yet but I wouldn’t actually mind taking up drawing again, if only to get some decent anatomical study done.
  
• I’ve also found 4 framed, polarised glass, anime cells. Two Arslan Senki (including 1 key cell), 1 Tokyo Babylon and 1 Cardcaptor Sakura. I’ve got some others that I never did get around to framing but IIRC they might be from Silent Mobius.
  
• Found my old prefect tie. Keeping it because I foresee some future kink value in it.
  
• Also found the padded leather collar and cuffs I picked up last year. Much better than the rubber set I had before.
  
• Have a fair idea for a Sunday evening costume for Pride next year.
  
• Probably not going to make it this year and instead opting for an autumn visit and hunting for Toronto Dreams Project postcards.
  
• On the down side of things, the curtain rail in my room broke today and I probably won’t be able to get it fixed till Monday.
  
• Fleece blanket serving as curtain for lower part of window but, due to very high windows, won’t be able to cover up top section.
  
• Might solve my current inability to get up early at least. I can just pretend that I’m in Taunggyi. Not that I’ve any intention of eating pè-byohk for breakfast any time soon.
  
• Threw out a pile of old posters, mostly from my days in London. Kept hold of a few nice art prints, a demotivator and my DragonLance Death Knights poster.
  
• Found my old Meine Liebe text adventure and, despite the fact that I recall it taking quite some time to complete, almost fancy making another one.
  
• Also found the old Ultima 8 poster I wrangled out of a dealer at a computer show in my teens. I couldn’t get him to part with the signed Lord British poster though.
  
• Watching an Ultima 8 playthrough. Remembered why I never completed it now.
  
• Feel like I've been covered in dust for days.

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[areno]

Feel like I've been covered in dust for days.

Me too. I've been clearing out a store of old, decommissioned computers, networking gear and compact discs. The amount of dust is staggering, not to mention all the stuff that has been out of use longer than I have been alive.

[narcasse]

I've got at least another week of it if I'm to get this all done. I uncovered an alarming number of USB extension cables last night, which may well be useful, and some base unit back plates that may actually have come from the second machine I ever built, over 10 years ago, which will be of no use to anyone.

Did you find any tape drives? Or those bizarre zip drives that were all the rage at one point?

[areno]

We found the harvested parts of a Compucolor II a couple of days ago. It had been out of use since the 80s according to the notes we found in the box along with it. We still use tapes at REDACTED but these are 800Gb absolute last-resort back-ups. That said, there were plenty of 800Mb cartridge drives lying around the place...and expandable ports for some of the very first Apple computers.