Electronics Recycling Day

So I noticed in the paper on Thursday that today the trash authority was having an electronics recycling day today from 9-1.

I said to myself, I said, "Self, we oughta DO this."

So this morning we loaded up eternaleponine's car.

Want to know what we had?

3 monitors

4 CPUs

At least 5 keyboards

2 printers

A fax machine

and a partridge in a pear tree. (Okay, not really.)

One of the CPUs had a sticker on it from the place where my dad worked before he retired.

Wow, it's nice to have all that crap out of the house!

And I even saved Ludo (the old G3, there's an 80GB hard drive on it that's probably still good), Ludo's associated keyboard, and one elderly IBM keyboard that I'd like to make a steampunk keyboard out of someday.

They even unloaded the car for us.

Go me!

Sunlight-based life form (does that kill my goth cred?)

It felt so good to have the electronics cleanout accomplished, I didn't stop there.

I did sit down at the computer when we got back, because that's what I DO when I come in the house.

But I checked on searingpaine's laundry in the dryer, too. Done. So I was able to start a load of MY laundry (I hate starting it unless the dryer is clear, since the dryer takes so much longer than the washer).

And we went out to Borders, so eternaleponine could get a copy of Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. Which she is sitting here reading and snickering over as I type.

searingpaine wasn't up yet. Which wasn't totally unreasonable, as he'd worked the night before, and God only knows when he'd gotten in, as he had to walk home from the Webster after his security shift was over. But I left a note on the door to the third floor stairs:

Good morning sunshine. :-) (And yes, I DID write the smileyface just like that.)

1) Your laundry's dry.

2) Remember what you said about chores? Since it's not raining - feel free to grab a garden rake (on the front porch) & have at it.

We are at Borders & will be back soon.

- Riki

And, wonder of wonders, when we got back -- with me terribly pleased with myself, because I found a PERFECT CD for a birthday present for my three-year-old niece, a collection of original alphabet songs by They Might Be Giants -- there were piles of raked leaves!

I showed searingpaine where the lawn and leaf bags were, and went inside to shift laundry to the dryer and clean up the kitchen, while eternaleponine worked on clearing leaves and junk off the front porch. melovechocolate took care of the cat box, and then went next door to play. When I was done with the dishes and fifteen minutes on the counters (eternaleponine helped on that), I went outside and took a pair of pruning shears to the Driveway Attack Shrubbery, and got it to where maybe we can open car doors without getting poked in the eye!

Then it was back inside to fool around on the net more. And rip CDs I'd borrowed from shadowflyer's because I had had them on Ludo, but not on the Toaster. And work up a grocery list with eternaleponine and melovechocolate. Now, our grocery lists are a mixture of very specific items like "hoisin sauce" and really general things like "lunch stuff" and "FOOD," but part of it was that we planned out dinner through Wednesday night, so we had some idea of what we wanted to get.

It became clear that this had to be a Wild Oats run. We mostly kept the impulse purchases under control. Okay, Mojo bars were on sale, but that's within our normal shopping plan, even. And we remembered to bring our own bags!

More fooling around on the net while I ate a Mojo bar, and then I went downstairs to start on dinner -- fried rice with vegetarian bacon. Because I'd made a large pot of rice earlier in the week and it had barely been touched, and it seemed like a shame to waste it. Peas, eggs, and scallions, with ginger and garlic and soy. Easy.

And now I'm back from taking searingpaine to work, and a second load of laundry is in the dryer, and I am feeling very pleased with the day.

How was YOUR Saturday?