Daily Archives: April 15, 2008  Clearing Out  Since I had to
drag half the crap in my office closet out of the closet
yesterday to give the plumber access to the pipes, I decided to
drag all of it out today and reorganize. Here’s where it stands:
Books: I just dragged eight boxes of books, which is, I don’t
know, a couple hundred books or so, over to the library so they
can take the ones they want and put the rest into the next
library sale. Before any publicists get horrified looks on their
faces, these are not books from the last year, but books before
then, so relax. These particular books were excellent books —
lots of history and science and SF paperbacks — but it’d been so
long since I’d even looked at them that it was time to let them
go. The librarians were delighted; the books get turned into
money at the next book sale. That makes me happy too. I like my
local library.  CDs: six boxes of CDs, at least a hundred CDs in
each box but probably more; I dragged them all down into the
basement with all my