The reason I took a couple of weeks off BEFORE leaving for my holiday is so I could move a pile of dirt to the back yard (done), and to take a bunch of stuff we don’t want to Goodwill or somewhere more deserving. In my head I decided I was going to do the yard work on the weekends and the getting-rid-of-stuff during the week, so Tuesday was supposed to be my first day of sorting through all the crap that’s been accumulated in the house. Unfortunately, I got sick on Tuesday and my ailment precluded any efforts that took me further than several feet from the bathroom. Or is that farther? Anyway, you get the idea. Wednesday I still wasn’t feeling that great and I noticed that my lymph nodes were swollen. Hooray, I’m sick around Labor Day again.

Today, I finally got a chest of drawers and a fine Solid-State Stereo with an 8-Track Tape player to the Oregon Community Warehouse. My sister had never heard of them, but here’s a description:

Community Warehouse is a volunteer-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that collects and redistributes donated furniture and household goods to low-income people in Oregon and southwest Washington.

I’m not sure they can use the stereo, but the chest of drawers was usable. Lots of my other junk is probably going to Goodwill, even though I know they’re not the best organization, I figure they can sort through my crap and make money off of the stuff that they can sell and dispose of the left. Everything on the household necessity list (pots, pans, dishes, etc) is probably going to the Community Warehouse, but the everyday detritus of life is going to Goodwill.