I have recently decided I need to clean up the immense collection of junk I have in my apartment. I started about a month ago by cleaning up the room I store my computer gear in. While that might sound like a reasonable start, it’s not.
I found an astounding number of bits of nonfunctional computer gadgetry and so forth that I piled up in a "to be removed" pile. I still haven’t done anything with it but that’s on the agenda for tonight. On the bright side, the room itself has been tidied up and I decreased the number of computer systems on my network by two so I’m now down to my Windows box and my Linux box and one other system that’s doing some monitoring of some stuff.
Now, however, I have the living room, kitchen, and bathroom to clean up. And the bathroom is probably the least unpleasant part given the immense pile of junk I’ve managed to acquire over the past five years. I suppose you could say I suffer from a disease called "packratitis" for which the cure is apparently to throw things away. At least according to an old episode of The Smurfs.
The lesson in all of this for those of you who actually read my ramblings is this: Make <bleeping> sure you throw out stuff you no longer need or you have the same problem I do. Of course, it’s more likely you do have the same problem I do. In that case, get with the program and toss some junk! It doesn’t matter if you’ll have a use for it three days after you toss it. If you aren’t using it now and haven’t been for more than a year or so, you probably don’t need it.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled procrastination schedule.