Various items found in my room

by Bavi_H, 7/10/2004

On my curio shelf:

• a ViewMaster 3D
• a Rubik's cube
• a Shaggy figurine
• a small collection of dice, including a d20, a d12, two d10, a d8, many d6, a poker die, doubling cubes, Scrabble letter cubes, and a d3 (a d6 with colored circles on its faces: red, red, yellow, yellow, blue, blue)

In my tool drawer shelf:

• fortune cookie fortunes
• movie ticket stubs
• Putt-Putt gameroom tickets
• dead batteries
• PEZ dispensers
• miscellaneous screws from things I've taken apart
• a wadded piece of aluminum foil (carelessly handed to me by a high school crush)

On my bookshelves:

• The Great International Math On Keys Book
• Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide
• a small paperback guide to music theory
• a guitar chord book
• various binders filled with photocopied music from junior high and high school choirs
• Boys' Life, Popular Mechanics, Family Computing, Run, Compute's Gazette
• The Best of Byte - Volume 1
• Dr. Who essay book and episode guide
• seven Mattel Peanuts books
• a rainbow-colored Slinky
• my treasure chest

In my treasure chest:

• Susan B. Anthony dollar coins
• a fifty-cent piece
• a two dollar bill
• red/blue 3D glasses
• a wooden slide rule
• one of my father's old voter's registration cards
• an outstanding physical education student award from elementary school
• a Mozart Music award from elementary school
• a little piece of wood, my first (and last) jigsaw cut, inscribed by Dad

In my bedroom closet:

• Legos
• a broken guitar

Connected to my computer:

• MIDI cables to connect my piano keyboard to my computer
• cable to connect the Dreamcast memory card to my computer
• Ethernet cable leading to the house router via the bathroom

In my desk drawers:

• cable to connect my TI-82 calculator to my computer
• cradle to sync my handheld computer
• a Sonic the Hedgehog figurine (with nose broken off)
• two Jack in the Box antenna toppers (one missing eyes and mouth)
• a One-For-All 4 universal remote control (allows you to reprogram individual keys)
• a TI-30 electronic calculator, missing the front LED cover, giving a view the circuit board and CPU
• instruction manuals for Intellevision games (I never had an Intellevision)
• a plastic slide rule

On my desk:

• a rotary telephone, normal size

In my hall closet:

• a rotary telephone, slim-line size
• dumb terminals
• computer keyboards
• computer mice (most of which don't work)
• various kinds of serial cables, but none of the kind you really need
• a Commodore 64, Commodore disk drives, and printer
• various Atari joysticks, a pair of paddles, a Koloa pad, a trackball, a Commodore mouse
• a Macintosh 512K (or is it 128K?), with extra disk drive and numeric keypad add-on
• two Timex/Sinclair 2048s and two Timex/Sinclair 1000s (only one of which works)

Just inside the bedroom door:

• a paper recycle bin, with hand-painted recycle logo

On a table in front of the TV:

• a Sega Dreamcast, on loan from my brother

On my television shelf:

• a record player
• my piano keyboard
• various tape players from my brother's Timex/Sinclair days, in a box
• in the same box: my brother's pong game (a Radio Shack "TV Scoreboard")

In my end-table drawers:

• a collection of various cards with magnetic stripes on them
• a collection of maps from various places I've been
• decks of poker playing cards
• academic letters from junior high school
• a harmonica
• various British coins
• Molly's rawhide bone (she couldn't chew it, but she still liked knowing it was hers)
• a can of marbles

Under the bed:

• nothing, except when Shelby dog is under there

In my chest of drawers:

• a water gun
• a plastic lei
• plastic Easter eggs
• a spare alarm clock
• a bubble-blowing pipe
• a bouncy ball
• a small computer tool set, including screwdrivers (even a star-headed one), tweezers, chip-puller, and screw picker-upper.