{"id":921,"date":"2008-04-14T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:51:57","slug":"accomplishment-thy-name-is-this-past-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Accomplishment, Thy Name is This Past Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I&#8217;ve got an accomplishment buzz.<\/p>\n<p>The garage?  I went <i>medieval<\/i> on the garage.  <\/p>\n<p>Things I cleared out or quarantined for disposal:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The desiccated corpse of a rat<br \/>\n&#8211; 5 Advanced D&#038;D Dungeon Master Guides, 2 Fiend Folios, 3 years worth of Dragon Magazine, 4 AD&#038;D Player&#8217;s Manuals, Basic D&#038;D sets 1, 2 and 3, and an inch worth of paper comprising characters and hand made, graph-paper dungeon maps made in the early to mid 80&#8217;s, various non-D&#038;D RPG paraphernalia (<i>Paranoia<\/i>, <i>Gamma World<\/i>, <i>Twilight 2000<\/i>)<sup>1<\/sup><br \/>\n&#8211; A dozen comics compilations: B.C., Heathcliff, Garfield, and others I don&#8217;t even recognize anymore<br \/>\n&#8211; The dredges of my grandmother&#8217;s Sci-Fi paperback collection<br \/>\n&#8211; My college footlocker, complete with <i>Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/i> sticker<\/p>\n<p>Things discovered and not thrown out:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wedding dress (worn once)<br \/>\n&#8211; Wedding night nightgown (worn once)<br \/>\n&#8211; 6 jillion Georgia Shakespeare sweatshirts<br \/>\n&#8211; a 3 gallon bucket filled with crayons (needs to be returned to <i>Imagine It! Children&#8217;s Museum<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a wheelbarrow with Tools With No Home that will require some shelving, and a 5&#215;8 foot area full of stuff that needs to be 1-800-GotJunk&#8217;d, but otherwise it&#8217;s a work of art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steakums.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">steakums<\/a> unloaded 3 garbage bags full of baby girl clothes off on two friends expecting 3 girls between them.<\/p>\n<p>I cleared off 4 or 5 shelves of books in our IKEA IVAR shelving to make room for putting our computer center there, and making the kitchen eating area free of computer desk induced clutter.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the books will be put up for sale in our planned May 24th yard sale, and those that don&#8217;t go then will be paperbackswap&#8217;d or trashed.<\/p>\n<p>If we can keep up the momentum, we&#8217;ll be clutter-free in no time.  Or rather, 5 or 6 weeks.  Which is no time on the geologic scale.<\/p>\n<p>_______________<br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\"><sup>1<\/sup> Lest you think I bought all these, they came out of a bunch of boxes that belong to my brother that he left when he moved out.  By the look of things, all of his friends left their D&#038;D and other gaming stuff to him, probably when <i>they<\/i> were de-cluttering.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I&#8217;ve got an accomplishment buzz. The garage? I went medieval on the garage. Things I cleared out or quarantined for disposal: &#8211; The desiccated corpse of a rat &#8211; 5 Advanced D&#038;D Dungeon Master Guides, 2 Fiend Folios, 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[513],"tags":[406,405,116],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-cleaning","tag-purge","tag-renovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}