Thursday. I’m definitely sick. Again. Another cold.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
DAY XXXIX
I feel like I’m coming down with yet another cold. It could be an allergenic reaction to the heavy VOG (Volcanic Fog) that is currently impacting the atmosphere.
DAY XXXVIII
Tuesday. Received the last of the outstanding payments for the seven eBay sales that closed this past weekend. Boxed things up for mailing.
DAY XXXVII
Another weary Monday at work.
Waiting for payments for my eBay listings that closed this weekend to trickle in.
DAY XXXVI
I sat outside on the steps this morning at 7:50 a.m. and thought about the attack on Pearl Harbor. A few minutes before 8:00 a 1930s Stearman biplane flew overhead. The rattling, rumbling, roar of the big rotary motor is exactly the kind of sound that reverberated across Oahu 73 years ago… multiplied a hundred-fold!
DAY XXXV
While sorting through storage containers today I ran across the assortment of fountain pens I had purchased at Office Depot a couple of years ago and subsequently misplaced… and more or less forgotten about. In the bottom of the plastic bag was the original sale receipt. “A couple of years ago” was… apparently… 2008!
DAY XXXIV
Highlight of the day: a SCORPION scuttled across the gallery floor at the Honolulu Academy of Art today during a school field trip.
(Using a sheet of paper and a clipboard, I gently scooped up the scorpion and released it safely outside.)
DAY XXXIII
Joel Runyon over at IMPOSSIBLEHQ.com is clearing out the last of his old stock Impossible Gear tee shirts and tank tops: LINK to IMPOSSIBLEHQ Fire Sale post
I’m sorely tempted, but I already own two blue IMPOSSIBLEHQ tee shirts and at least three – it might be four – grey shirts. How many IMPOSSIBLEHQ t-shirts do I need? Particularly considering that I’m trying to a) clear out the clutter and b) raise some quick cash for some projects. So I’m gonna try to resist this offer… unless my current eeBeh listings generate a LOT of extra cash when they close this weekend, which isn’t looking too likely at present… but I encourage YOU to RUSH to the IMPOSSIBLEHQ web site and equip yourself with some awesome IMPOSSIBLEHQ gear!
205.4 pounds today.
DAY XXXII
Jogged 5k (3 miles) after work again yesterday. That’s two days in a row. Let’s see if I can keep it going.
Morning weight was 204.4 pounds.
No new Buy-It-Now sales on the 30 eBay listings. Seven items have opening bids.
I really need to intensively scrutinize and ruthlessly purge the contents of all these stupid storage tubs.
DAY XXXI
Yesterday afternoon after work I took two boxes to the post office to mail. Two items sold on eBay. One was a box filled with nearly a hundred miniature Matchbox toy cars that I’d had since I was a little kid. I had a little bit of anxiety about selling that. I kept a dozen or so. I’m sure at some point there are a few in the lot that I’ll regret having parted with. But hey, I’m gonna have a real Rolls Royce here one of these soon days, right?
The second box was outdated computer software and some accompanying books. Happy to see that go.
That’s two sales so far out of the 32 items I listed over the weekend. I have low opening bids on five or six additional items. I’m not exactly raking in the big bucks, but it’s a start.
And that’s two large flat-rate boxes, or about the equivalent of one apple box, of stuff that is now GONE! The combined weight of the boxes was 33 pounds, so that’s 33 pounds of stuff I don’t have to shuffle around in the Room of Doom anymore.
I also jogged 5 km (3 miles) after work. I’m hoping to have enough ambition to do that again today. I weighed 205 pounds yesterday, down from a ridiculous 207 pounds the previous day. That’s just stupid. It’s well past time to drop that weight! So, clutter and fat, I gotta keep whittling away at both of ’em.