Well, after an eternity of putting it off I’ve finally decided to go through the huge cache of computer parts I’ve been slowly gathering over the years.  I’m keeping the bare minimum that I could conceivably put to some profitable use in my business and selling the rest off on eBay by the lot.  Or, in the case of not selling it, putting it out for Goodwill or Bridgehouse to come and collect in exchange for a tax-write-off for me.

In any case, I’ve just given myself the fast-track-crash-course in "How to sell shit on eBay."  I’ve got 20 auctions going as we speak.  Damn, that was a lot of crap to photograph, catalog, write up descriptions and fine-tune.  I spent two straight, very full days doing just that.  I even set up a makeshift photography studio in the living room.  I know, I’m OCD to the core.

I spent the three days prior going through crate after crate of computer equipment.  Some of this gear is Smithsonian grade.  I mean, they found a few of these VGA cards right next to the Rosetta Stone when they dug that sucker up.  Mind you, there’s bound to be someone out there who can give them a good home, regardless of the age… there are other people who, unlike me, put their pack-ratted computer gear to work.  Sure, I use some of it, but not much of the older stuff anymore.  You watch, there’s gonna’ be some 15 year-old kid in Topeka, Kansas that’s gonna’ assemble a new, more efficient combine harvester that will run on collected oxygen and till crops in the desert for pennies a day — and he’ll do it with that old Pentium 100 he bought from me.

Well, at any rate all I should have to do for the next 7 days is baby-sit these auctions and prepare to package and ship anything that actually gets sold.  Joy.