test please delete

[zeitghost]

Evening all*




*I may not be allowed to use that expression for much longer; apparently it may offend some ethnic minorities for reasons that completely escape me.

Or so I read somewhere.

Though that may have been a dream.

[zeitghost]

Am I the only person who keeps the original packaging for things in case they need to be returned, and still has it all five years later?

Er

No.

I've got cardboard boxes that stuff came in that are full of cardboard boxes that stuff came in.

Some of the stuff has gone the way of all things electronic in the mean time.

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IAm I the only person who keeps the original packaging for things

No. We move so often that I keep the original boxes for such things as monitors, the fax machine, the printers and various other items.

I also filled the shredder twice, without getting rid of any documents of note.

Then why shred them? Or does your council take shredded paper? (Very few do.)

Assorted old PCs have now been removed to the recycling area in the kitchen, ready to have any remaining components of possible use removed before being taken to the tip.

Hmm. That's why I have 6 A4 paper boxes full of cables, screws, old drives and other crap going back at least 15 years.

It would have been longer but I accidentally left my ZX Spectrums (Spectra?) with printer, software, metal paper and other bits in a loft in a previous house somewhere.

With all that done, I am one step closer to having the space for the big bookcase I bought about a month ago to be assembled.

The big bookcase which went out of production last week meaning the missing floggle toggle can now not be obtained?

I have two self-assembly desks and two self-assembly bookcases which are now held together with little angle brackets. Far easier, cheaper, quicker and safer than the weird mentalist screwy-pole-into-spiral-grub-screw affairs they want you to use.

The only thing standing in my way now is the huge box of papers that was packed when I left Cheltenham in 2000, and has been following me around ever since - it originally contained suitcases, that's how big it is

I may need to get a bigger shredder

What you need is a house fire in the middle of the week. A few times when we have been packing / unpacking I have wished for a fire to magically convert everything into a cheque.

[zeitghost]

As part of some "bargain" when I bought a laptop in 2000, I got a laptop case, a Lexmark printer and a usb scanner.

The usb scanner sat behind the desk for 8 years until I took it into work.

Naturally enough, the software with it wouldn't work on anything newer than NT4 & Win98

Fortunately, the manufacturers website provided more up to date offerings

[BrowneIssue]

Evening all*

*I may not be allowed to use that expression for much longer; apparently it may offend some ethnic minorities for reasons that completely escape me.

I don't see why. "all" seems fairly inclusive to me.

[zeitghost]

In fact, now I come to think of it, I have rather a lot of boxes full of stuff that have never been opened.

Can't resist a bargain

[zeitghost]

Apparently the plod may also be avoiding the terms "child" or "children" from now on.

For equally obscure ethnic reasons .

[zeitghost]

Mind how you go

[BrowneIssue]

Apparently the plod may also be avoiding the terms "child" or "children" from now on.

For equally obscure ethnic reasons .

indeed.

[BrowneIssue]

It was very quiet in here today.