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[jfb]

Some things I did today:

• Donated a computer and a bunch of computer stuff to Computer Recycling Center, a nonprofit that reassembles components into working systems that it sells cheap to schools, and disassembles other components to their recyclable parts.
  
• Went next door to Weird Stuff, an institution that could exist only in Silicon Valley, a store whose inventory consists mostly of stuff no one wants--and yet, someone does! Mainframe cabinets, 1G hard drives, keyboards for Sun workstations from the 80s, a big bin of detached laptop touchpads ($3 apiece), manuals for forgotten Microsoft networking software.
  
• Missed brunch at Country Gourmet for the second time, because on Saturdays brunch ends at 1, not 2.
  
• Went to Turmerik for a buffet that included the first gulab jamun I've ever had that tasted like dessert instead of a menu obligation.
  

Something I love about this area is the sheer variety of languages I can hear just going out for an afternoon. I don't know for sure what most of them are, but for the sake of argument let's say I heard a young couple teasing each other in Russian, someone being worried in Cantonese, something from the subcontinent at lunch, a kid pestering his mom for cookies in French, always some Spanish here and there, and many more in the background.

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[xythian.livejournal.com]

I did finally hear back from that woman at the school. So I'm probably going to drop my aged Celeron off next week. We'll see how that goes. It'll be the first machine I didn't eventually give to CRC since moving here. And it's the only machine I still have from before I moved out to California.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

I should've asked if she could use my old machine too. Oh well.