Memory Lane

For about four years now, I've been carrying an old Macintosh Plus around in my trunk. This wasn't something that I set out to do - a neighbor was going to trash it even more years ago, and I thought it would be fun to snag it, see if it still worked, and play Beyond Dark Castle a couple of times. This plan was thwarted by the fact that we have nowhere in our house to even walk in a straight line, let alone a place to set up an obsolete computer. The Mac lived with someone else for a while, and then when they moved, it went into my trunk, where it stayed, simply because I had nowhere else to put it.

Every once in a while, I remembered that it was in there, but couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. Recently, I decided that multiple years of alternately baking and freezing in the New England weather had probably destroyed it, and I should just dump the thing at the next hazardous waste disposal day. First, though, I had to see if it might actually work.

Wow. Back in the 80's, Apple built their stuff to last. I can't believe such an ill-treated piece of electronic equipment actually worked, but it did. It was neat to play BDC again. Mmm...nostalgia.

The Might of the Irken Elite!

Ah, all three volumes at last.

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Neil Gaiman has updated his online journal three times since I sent him a link to my sock-stealing bird, and he's neither written to me about it, nor mentioned it in the journal. Hopefully he checked it out and was amused, but was too busy to comment, which I can understand. However, I think it's probably time to give up on the hope that he might mention it in the journal. That would have been cool...above and beyond how cool it would have been to be mentioned, it probably would have vastly increased the traffic to my deviantART account. Oh, well - it wasn't something I was expecting, just something I'd hoped for.