Among the items pulled out of the study/junkroom/library/front bedroom for donation to a good cause today:

• Toshiba Satellite 4010CDS notebook computer plus power supply
• Gateway2000 Solo 2200 notebook computer plus power supply
• Gateway2000 Solo 2200 notebook computer without power supply
• HP PhotoSmart C5250 all-in-one printer plus power supply
• NetWave Blitzz 11Mbps 802.11b wireless LAN CardBus PC Card
• Belkin F5D7010 54g wireless network card
• [More to add to this list later]

After all, I am not a museum, so the Apple Macintosh II, Apple High-Resolution Monochrome Monitor, Apple Power Macintosh 6100/66, tangerine Apple iMac G3 and some miscellaneous parts should go, too.

Anyone need a stack of floppy disks, a few blank, but many containing such classic software as Dark Castle, Dark Castle II, Beyond Dark Castle, Intuit MacinTax Tax Planner, Falcon 2, HyperDisk, Parsons Personal Tax Edge 1995, Macintosh Pascal 2.0 (1986), MacSchedule, Aldus FreeHand, Buick Dimensions 1988/1990/1991, MacinTax 1989/1994, Harrier, CrystalQuest, CompuServe ver 2.0.1, and more?!

Time marches on.  Out with the old and in with the new.

Yet, I write this while using a 4-year young notebook PC on the student desk from my primary school years, surrounded by old, musty books.

There is the solitary me sitting here, a figment of my imagination, as small or large as I want it to be, feeling separate from the universe — unique and boxed-in.

There is the me that is just a node of what cannot be called anything because labels such as “universe” and “me” are without true, absolute meaning.

There is a change in the air.  14,036 days to go.  The narrative continues…