After living in L.A. for a number of years, I decided to move back to NYC in early 2006, but I kept my L.A. apartment. I was bi-coastal for a while (with roommates, so neither place was sitting empty while I was traveling), then I was subletting my L.A. place, and now a new person is moving in. A new person moving in means that I not only have to have a bunch of household things fixed, I have to get rid of all of my useless crap, whether that means moving it to NYC, giving it away, or tossing it out. So, I've been in Los Angeles for a few days while I rid my old apartment of the crap I had in the storage closet. During the days, I have been working remotely while monitoring the contractors that have come in and out to fix various things, and during the evenings I've been cleaning out my closets. So far, some of the things I've found have been:
- A limited edition, signed CD single of Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi is Dead" from their 1998 Resurrection tour
- My high school diploma
- My childhood immunization records (!)
- A Freemason's watch
- Three rosaries
- My test score from my first Notes R4 certification exam (86%, FYI. Scores on subsequent tests were higher)
- My California driver's license from 1993, with its giant red "turns 21 in 1995" stamp on it
- A Thinkpad 600X, along with its recovery disks
- A package of weightlifting gloves with a pre-Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger on the label
- My first passport application
- Seven different Linux variants on CD
- A lot of old photos of me, all somewhat mortifying in one way or another
Of course, because I like to humiliate myself on the internet, I'll probably post some of the more goofy-looking photographs here once I get them scanned. But for now, it's back to closet cleaning.
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