New Job Description: Pilot

 

"Hey, Jim, I've heard you mention that you have a commercial/multi-engine/instrument pilot's license - are you going to put it to work?
 

No, but thanks for asking.  We have a large storage unit that is inland; it's where we keep the motorhome when we aren't using it.  There is enough room in there to have had the boat in there at the same time (when we had a boat).  And what is the rule about storage space?  That's right: it is your duty to try to fill it.  So, we have had a bunch of other stuff stored out there.  What kind of stuff, you ask?  Kinda nosy, aren't ya?

There was a wardrobe out there, full of winter coats.  From when we lived in the frozen northland.  And, you may want to hang onto stuff like that, in case the "super volcano" in Yellowstone blows and we are all plunged into a new Ice Age.  Kidding, of course - who would want to survive that?  A bin of motorcycle stuff.  Some boat stuff.  Some RV stuff (like a well-preserved Trav-A-Sack).

Since we have decided to make this big move, I take stuff and I "pile it" over here... and "pile it" over there.  Today, we took stuff from that big storage unit inland and put some of it in the climate controlled smaller storage unit here in town.  Get it?  Pile it... pilot.  More keep/donate/toss.  We took some nice stuff to the thrift shop to donate.  They seemed genuinely happy to get it.

One more thing we found in there: 2 more Apple MacBooks (a G4 from 2001 and a G4 Pro from 2005)... well, technically, that is two more things.  We missed getting those in the e-Trash collection from last Saturday.  These will be tossed.  No way to turn them on, but in case someone should find them and try to get any personal info off them... I took a hammer to them.

Those G4 Pro laptops were, indeed, made with titanium shells.  It laughed at my attempts to pound through the metal.  I tried hammering it, using a screwdriver as an awl... it broke the screw driver.  This calls for drastic measures: a carbide drill bit...

That did the job.  The batteries have been removed and will be taken to a battery recycler.  Two less things I will have to "pilot."

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Oh, and I was wrong about the medical conglomerate the doctor (from Wednesday's post) belongs to... they DID send me a survey; got it late this afternoon.  I did tell them exactly what went on during that visit.  Gave them my name and phone number (it was optional).  Wanna take any bets as to whether anyone will respond to what I wrote in that survey?  (this wasn't just "rate it from 1 to 10" questions - there was room for comments.  I commented.