What does your Dashboard look like?

I moved into my apartment on Friday. Most of you probably already knew that, some of you because now I live with you. Somehow I accumulated a bunch of stuff since August. You see, when I moved out to my dorm last summer, I fit nigh everything I owned into my car, in one load). When I moved from my dorm to my apartment, it took three loads of my car. Now, granted, maybe I didn’t pack as well because the trip is twenty minutes instead of ten hours. I also had one trunkful of somebody else‘s stuff, but still. Where did all of these things come from? I try to analyze it and I can’t see anything that I have more or different from last time. My dad always talks about the constant war on crud, and how if you’re not vigilant it will accumulate and take over your life (“I’ve never had a garage sale! It must take at least ten years to accumulate enough crud to have a garage sale.”). This is a similar concept to kipple, a term used to describe the constant entropic increase of tidiness. (uhh… increase in entropy is more chaotic, right? I can’t remember. Dwight?). I actually just finished that book. If you’ve ever seen the movie Blade Runner, it’s the book the movie was based on. It’s pretty interesting, raises some good points. It’s pretty short, if you’re into sci-fi I recommend it as a read.

It’s true that when you’re a bachelor living in a college dormitory you don’t own any furniture. I realized this promptly upon my arrival at the apartment when I tried to set up my computers but didn’t have a place to put them. Fortunately the last occupant of my room was foresighted, kind, intelligent, good-looking, funny, and stylish enough to leave his bed for me to recline upon, an act of such altruism it can’t be accurately described in words. At any rate, I’m also poor (being a prime example of the aforementioned “bachelor living in a college dormitory an apartment without a clear job for the summer” demographic) and can’t really afford to buy “furniture”, as such. Thus it was that I enacted an old trick learned from my father, passed down through generations as a golden nugget of truth: two sawhorses and a door make a fabulous desk for less! The best part is that it’s so large, the vast expanse of my desk space (32″ x 80″, almost 18 square feet!) stretches before me like the horizon of an unknown planet, covered by the mists of time and low-capacity render distance. I’m not sure you can get a larger desk for $55.58.

I don’t have anything to do for the next week, so to celebrate while I’m doing laundry I think I’m probably going to waste some time by playing video games. Ahh, the sweet succor of a misguided youth.

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