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Saturday 11th 29F/-2C. A light dusting of frost. Blue sky with small clouds. Some sunshine is promised.
Up at 8.30. It was 5am one minute and the next it was much later than expected. Only 58F/14C in the room. Stove lit and going well. Brought in another basket of logs.
I ought to get rid of some of the packaging I have accumulated. IKEA boxes and fillers most recently. Though there must be a cubic meter of different boxes going back for years. Nothing ever thrown away in case it had to be returned. Though it never was. Enough for a trailer full. To go to the recycling yard.
If I can make a dent in the balcony room cardboard box collection I could make more space for more useful stuff. The 45º sloping roof/ceiling doesn't allow for taller storage. So it needs to be arranged sequentially. The best access only for frequently used "stuff" like tools. Which begs the question for why keep the rest?
The are large boxes full of cables collected over the long years. Audio, TV, computer, even telephone, you name it. Would anybody buy and collect a large box full of cables? USB, network, HDMI, specialist loudspeaker, phono, live music, XLR. I still have my eight 15" subwoofer drivers, power amplifier, mixers and all the cables. Might suit an impoverished rock band or soloist?
How to reach them with an online advert? Cheap enough to attract attention. Who cares if a reseller wants a profit? I just need them to be gone. Without feeling I was robbed. I have had the years of enjoyment from their use. They owe me little more. Let somebody else play with them now.
12.45 34F/+1C. Continuous sunshine with a northerly breeze. I have posted the offer of free IB parts for collection on my subwoofer blog and a subwoofer forum I once contributed to. Both filled me with memories and the pain of loss. The realization that all of this was in the past. In another life. One that can never be recaptured. That's what the therapist meant by "living my own life." Which roughly translates into: Use your days wisely while you still have them.
https://ibsubwoofer.blogspot.com/2025/free-ib-subwoofer-parts-for.html
While I was doing this I have done nothing about clearing the excess packaging problem.
Bugger it! I am going for a ride on my e-bike.
14.45 Returned from a ride to the village with a detour. Only 11km. It was bitterly cold into the wind on the way back. The headwind was over 10m/s. 36km/hr. I was riding at mid 20's km/hr. So the wind chill factor was over 50km/hr. Making it feel like -8C. A few more kilometers more and I would have had hypothermia of the fingers! The GripGrab gloves are only useful above 50F/10C. My fingers were aching with cold and are still pink after 15 minutes back in the warm.
Dinner was an omelette. With chicken and mushrooms. I was determined not to make it into a badly scrambled egg. So I turned it twice using a large plate. I should have turned it brown side up for the photo. The underside was perfect. The chicken was nicely tender after 25 minutes frying on a low setting.
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