Went down to look at the auction preview. Some really good stuff and some stuff that is already very much overbid. So far, i am winning on a small autoclave (for sterilization of home brew stuff and general lab stuff), a very nice ergonomic chair (a steal at $20) a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner for $20 (retail for $400 new) and an extra receipt printer (handy as a spare for the store).
I am also bidding on the contents of a cupboard in the server room - a lot of copies of MSFT Office 2003 (my all-time favorite edition), some licenses for Win7 and several copies of Windows XP - this is a real treasure as although you will never ever want to run it on any machine that is connected to the internet (it will get infected in under ten minutes guaranteed), XP was the last version of Windows to write directly to peripheral devices. There are some older music and CAD programs that cannot deal with the newer "virtualized" ports as they need to be able to directly write to the hardware from within the application. Copies of XP are scarce and cherished.
It was a really nice afternoon so drove home via Highway 9 along Lake McMurray, Big Lake and Clear Lake up to Sedro-Woolley - a gorgeous stretch of highway. Clear Lake is a sweet old town - used to be a prime timber town with a large shingle mill but it has shrunk to a fraction of its population but a lot of the old buildings still remain.
Surf for a bit and then to bed - taking the pups in for grooming tomorrow morning - both Grace and Bear are blowing their coats big-time so getting them shaved. Got a meeting tomorrow night.
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