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Jan. 20th, 2004 01:17 amI've been rearranging my office area and planning the next steps in arrangement for it again. Clearing some stuff out, wondering where to put some other stuff, but trying to finally remove from the area everything that doesn't really belong in here now. Like that balsa wood airship skeleton.
It's been weird actually tossing some books into recycling, but who would want a wordperfect 5 book? I've got a box, well actually I guess a couple with books that I'm not sure whether I should keep or find a new home for. Hrrmm, I notice that there is a Civil Code - compact edition from 1982 in that box. After 22 years it would be worse than useless to actually use it as a reference. I'm most bothered I guess that I put my DOS programming references in recycling, if I think about it too much I'm going to go pull them out, but the most realistic justification I can come up with is - what if someday I wanted to write a book set in the 80's and DOS details were actually important to the plot or storytelling? I'm more likely to write a story about PDP-11s running RSTS/E or the Cyber in Northridge what ever OS that had, and I don't have manuals for those. It was easier at least to ditch tax guides and stuff about what signs you have to post if you have employees from the early '90s. If/when I ever have employees again, I'll get new info. Though it boggles me that the nineties are a long time ago already. (no voices from the other room allowed to comment on the previous sentence.)
Finished the dark materials books. _very_ different from "I was a Rat" or his other little books I've read. The first one it took awhile for me to get actually into, but once I did I just wanted to get through them all, finishing about 1 or 2 am yesterday -- then wondering how I'm supposed to get sleep after all that!
Them wheeled critters sound too familiar to me - have they been in any other stories or something like them perhaps? Or am I just confusing them with elephants? Be careful on spoilers if you answer this since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jilara is reading the first one still.
And tomorrow I get to go to jury duty! :-P
It's been weird actually tossing some books into recycling, but who would want a wordperfect 5 book? I've got a box, well actually I guess a couple with books that I'm not sure whether I should keep or find a new home for. Hrrmm, I notice that there is a Civil Code - compact edition from 1982 in that box. After 22 years it would be worse than useless to actually use it as a reference. I'm most bothered I guess that I put my DOS programming references in recycling, if I think about it too much I'm going to go pull them out, but the most realistic justification I can come up with is - what if someday I wanted to write a book set in the 80's and DOS details were actually important to the plot or storytelling? I'm more likely to write a story about PDP-11s running RSTS/E or the Cyber in Northridge what ever OS that had, and I don't have manuals for those. It was easier at least to ditch tax guides and stuff about what signs you have to post if you have employees from the early '90s. If/when I ever have employees again, I'll get new info. Though it boggles me that the nineties are a long time ago already. (no voices from the other room allowed to comment on the previous sentence.)
Finished the dark materials books. _very_ different from "I was a Rat" or his other little books I've read. The first one it took awhile for me to get actually into, but once I did I just wanted to get through them all, finishing about 1 or 2 am yesterday -- then wondering how I'm supposed to get sleep after all that!
Them wheeled critters sound too familiar to me - have they been in any other stories or something like them perhaps? Or am I just confusing them with elephants? Be careful on spoilers if you answer this since
jilara is reading the first one still. And tomorrow I get to go to jury duty! :-P
