"Amanda" <amanda772008@yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>I was just trying to be over with my sister's issue - she moved to the
>*rich* people area, away from everything that if I need a cable, it
>would take me 30 mins or more to go pick up from the nearest store. So
>I got busy trying to make sure about all the necessary hardware before
>heading to her place.

I know the feeling. The nearest Radio Shack store is 20 minutes away.
Worse, my palatial office is 45 minutes away. So, if I need a
connector, cable, or whatever, I often chose to buy a new one, rather
than drive all the way to my office. It's also often easier to buy a
new item, than to try and remember where I buried it. The unintended
consequence is that I have a substantial inventory of duplicated junk
in my office and my house. I also have a fair amount of duplicated
junk in my truck.

Whenever I go on service calls, I like to take extras of everything
with me. Extra routers, extra switches, extra cables, power strips,
and such. I frequently sell mice, cables, power strips, adapters,
keyboards, and other computer expendables.

>A man cleaning house? Impressive.

Bachelor, curmudgeon, and possibly turning into a mad hermit. Cleaning
house largely consists of recovering floor and table space by building
tall piles of paper and junk.
http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/hom...ingRoom01.html

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