2008-10-11 Books

A mixture of books, mostly gathered by certain folks tagging along with us. First no idea why they picked up this partial Shakespeare, but at least it comes with a handy set of instructions. We would never have thought of anything so sensible.

Also an assortment of the usual suspects, Harry Potter and The Nanny Diaries etc. All very canonical, for certain canons.

2008-10-04 Puters

A few Compaq Pentium 4 machines in various states of having been scavenged. We grabbed one nice machine and a disk to look at. Salient points:

• Previous owner was/is an architect.
• No multimedia stuff at all.
• Very few cached browser files, some in Firefox cache, evidence of a cache cleaner run on MSIE.
• Lots of CAD drawings and even cartoons depicting CAD related humour (who knew there was such a thing!).
• Several huge mailboxes that when attachment extraction is run yield lots of pics related to business. Some family pics also.

2008-10-04 Pedal Car

A Kettler pedal powered car thingy to amuse offspring by making them power their own locomotion. The chain is off (easy fix) and one of the wheels may have some issues but we will see about that.

2008-10-04 Bike

A Schwinn Cross-Fit hybrid bike. It is a fair few years old but has not been ridden to any significant degree. No real reason for discard. A puff of air in the tyres and a quick squirt with the hose leaves it all happy and ready for a new home, possibly via the list of craig. Unless that is one of you avid readers wants it at the special discount rate?

Update: Sold to a friend at a special discount rate.

2008-09-30 Bike

A Cannondale H400 is pretty fine shape except one or two items. The rear wheel was off and the tyre and tube were missing, hence the reason for discard is probably foreign object penetration of said rubber devices. A puncture, in layman's terms. New tyre and tube from stock and it rides fine. Front tyre needed a puff of air also, presumably even if they had not had the puncture in the rear they would have tossed it anyway due to the front being slightly low. Who can tell?

The change visible on the table behind and to the right of the growler was in the little Cannondale pouch.

2008-09-28 Ironware

A delicious selection of cast iron cookware. First off a 12 inch skillet. This is for Jeff, for those who know him. Pic shows it cleaned up and cured, in fact it has already been used to cook parsnips and suchlike.

Next up a nice little cast iron pot with lid. It is in very good condition but needs a quick brush and cure. This is available.

The rest are pictured here getting a light rinse in a rainstorm. They will be dried and stored until somebody wants them. They are not as crazily rusted as the light portrays them in this picture.

2008-09-23 Scraper

An ice scraper thingy. At least that is what we think it is, it has a distinctly spade-like essence but has a flat blade with a crude edge on it. It is pretty much new and if you are lazy enough to not get your driveway cleared before the evening then this is what you need. Probably being taken by a friend.