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July 10, 2004

Various items found in my room

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.