Happy New Year!

Trying to avoid LJ at work -- too distracting, and I feel like I don't get enough done, and then I feel like I have to work late. Hence, stupid work habits. The corollary of this is that I need to check it at home, and I haven't really got to this yet. But I have been quite productive at work this week.

I'm hoping this means my posts will be fewer, but better. Or you may all get utterly bored or never see them, who knows?

Now then. Because I know how deprived you must all feel, here are 2 weeks worth of house updates. And the last shall be first:

( Saturday, January 7 )

( Friday, January 6 )

( Thursday, January 5 )

( Tuesday, January 3 and Wednesday, January 4 )

( Last report of 2005 )

( Thursday, December 29 )

( Christmas report. I did contribute to this one. )

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Will Shetterly proposes a new holiday for the end of 2006. I like it!

mysteries

Have started the monumental task that is clearing out "my" room in my parents' house from 8 1/2 years' accumulation of Stuff. I'm finding some fascinating things -- my notebook from the year I tutored pariah_ink and Dan in high school math, physics, and chemistry (tossed), my agenda from Grade 13 (kept), a bunch of tapes (put in box for Value Village, like anyone's going to want them).

I've moved on to the bottom drawer in the chest of drawers and have encountered a curious item. I know I knew what it was once. I have a feeling it dates back to high school, but who knows? Anyway, it's a film container (remember film? you know, black with a grey top, not the clear Fuji kind) with "Tools" written on the side in gold ink. It contains:

• a balloon, black


• an elastic band


• a marble


• a paper clip, pink


• a puzzle piece


• a thumbtack, white (well, maybe it's a push pin -- you know, with the flat head, not the plastic kind with a waist)


• a small piece of Plasticine, yellow


• a Lego block, yellow


• a piece of card stock, peach, with "FBO" written on one side in black and "1^STs" on the other side in silver

I now have no clue what this signifies, but am immensely curious. Anyone have any ideas?

Also, GIP.

EDIT: My theories so far: It's some kind of toolkit for sparking the writer's imagination. Or it's to amuse small children, although I'm not altogether sure how that would work. I can't really see it being any kind of survival kit. Hmm.

EDIT 2: I seem to vaguely recall being part of a group, each member of which got one. But I don't know.