I got a call late last week that the building Where are used to work… I store some of my science for kids equipment flooded and got filled with mud. I had to go in and salvage what equipment I could and throw away the rest so they could clean out the room. Building now belongs to GLOBALFOUNDRIES but they’re kind enough to let me still use it for my outreach efforts.… Getting in there was no small feat… Covid regulations required me to do a bunch of surveys and then show up to get a health check Before I could enter the building.… There are still several hundred IBMer I work in a facility. A really great guy Tim L offered to help me Clean out and sort the mess.
It was a trip down memory lane going there. Like seeing the stairs where I first met ‘Diane in 1982
Tim and I walked down to 966 and it wasn’t a pretty sight. Most of the building had been cleared out but there had been 4 inches of mud due to an equipment malfunction that washed bunch of water into the building
Here’s what my storage room look like
And that’s after I got about 2/3 of the stuff out of there. Lots of it was caked with mud but most of it was salvageable
All of my science equipment was up in tables so it was safe… That included my old favorite Tesla coil that scott helped me build and My original Van de Graaff generator.… I have newer smaller equipment now that I use for kids… But this old stuff is the best
I took advantage of having recycling bins and garbage bins to go through about 40 years of crud that I had gathered over the years
They were some great finds like a pickle fryer that I must’ve made it a restaurant dinner out of some stolen forks
Lots of mess. But lots of cool surprises too
Here’s a model of our house that my brother Billy made for us for some event
My old telephone 802-769-7676 (Which spells soy-porn)
Several boxes of plaques I’ve gotten for work stuff
ACool Clayhead that my friend Chris Wendel made for me back when we were at Mit
Inside it or some Serbian tesla currency
Some unopened discs of OS 2
And tons of scrap equipment that no one could use anymore… It’s hard to let go but better now than later
It’s amazing that in two hours I was able to go through 40 years of junk I felt so much cleaner and lighter after doing it
Nite all, nite sam
-me