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Still job hunting, but also doing some housecleaning. It's at that stage where one is making progress, but the place looks messier. Hopefully, this will improve tomorrow, when I take a large load of things I cleared off one shelf and deliver them to someone who will actually make use of them. I've managed to fit my manga collection onto the cleared shelf, thus clearing a couple of square feet of floor. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mnemex helped me reorganize the shelf above that, and I fit a couple more books there, and I did a bit of reorganizing on a couple more shelves, and, as a result, was able to clear a bit more floor. I have about 3 piles of papers which will be tricky to clear, but I may be able to improve the situation by going through drawers and file cabinets and getting rid of some stuff there.
I'd like to find a disc drive for 5 1/4-inch floppies and a cable that can connect it to either my desktop (old enough to be running WindowsME) or my laptop (hardly new, but quite serviceable), and copy the discs I have. I can already do that for any of the 3 1/2-inch discs I didn't already do it for, this being one of the advantages of an old desktop model.
All of that means I could probably clear up space in the drawer where I currently keep my floppies. I'd just need to make sure everything's backed up redundantly, and then make sure the discs are really wiped clean. I presume reformatting them will do that? At that point, the question is: Could I find, without too much effort, anyone who could actually use the discs? Finding someone who wants to take the stuff one wants to get rid of can be tricky.
mnemex helped me reorganize the shelf above that, and I fit a couple more books there, and I did a bit of reorganizing on a couple more shelves, and, as a result, was able to clear a bit more floor. I have about 3 piles of papers which will be tricky to clear, but I may be able to improve the situation by going through drawers and file cabinets and getting rid of some stuff there.I'd like to find a disc drive for 5 1/4-inch floppies and a cable that can connect it to either my desktop (old enough to be running WindowsME) or my laptop (hardly new, but quite serviceable), and copy the discs I have. I can already do that for any of the 3 1/2-inch discs I didn't already do it for, this being one of the advantages of an old desktop model.
All of that means I could probably clear up space in the drawer where I currently keep my floppies. I'd just need to make sure everything's backed up redundantly, and then make sure the discs are really wiped clean. I presume reformatting them will do that? At that point, the question is: Could I find, without too much effort, anyone who could actually use the discs? Finding someone who wants to take the stuff one wants to get rid of can be tricky.