In preparation for possibly selling the house, I\u2019ve been cleaning closets.<\/p>\n
The other half, God rest his soul was a heck of a packrat and had a habit of saving all kinds of paperwork in boxes, backpacks, shopping bags, and disused briefcases. Each one of which I must now open and determine from which epoc the paperwork within belongs.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s enough fun and I have found a lot of very strange things. I\u2019ve also happened upon a treasure trove of CDs all of them classical music and none<\/strong><\/em> of them digitized. I\u2019m at a complete loss as to why this would be. The resources to digitize and store all of his music on his computer, ipad, iphone or whatever were available. For some reason it just never got done and to the best of my knowledge I was never asked to do it or help.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s one of those questions I\u2019ll have to ask him when I see him next. I do hope that I can call him to the gates of heaven to chat for a moment or two before I\u2019m put on the express elevator to hell. I doubt they\u2019ll allow phonecalls between the two places and the long distance charges would be outrageous even if such calls were allowed.<\/p>\n Another part of cleaning out the closets has been dealing with the porn collection. There are quite a few videos we accumulated over the years. After the fire, we replaced a lot of what we originally owned on VHS tapes with DVDs or BluRays. As technology advanced and porn houses started offering their movies digitally I allocated a chunk of space on our server to store movies. I\u2019ve also transferred many movies to the server, so that they are available on demand on virtually any device with a screen in the house.<\/p>\n As I was sorting movies from the shelf in the closet, I noticed a number of titles were not on the server and were not available for download from the production houses. So while going through the heartwrenching task of sorting or trashing things from boxes, bags, etc. I also began moving videos to the server. Once the DVD is on the server, I\u2019ve been boxing them for storage and transport.\u00a0<\/p>\n This process has gone quite well. After moving the videos to the server, I decided to do a little quality check and so I told a player application to play the videos. I wasn\u2019t watching them actively, I was spot checking as I walked something to the trash or checked on the dog.<\/p>\n The Dog will only allow me about an hour before he brings a ball in and drops it loudly next to my foot.<\/p>\n Anyhow, between laundry, sorting paperwork and the dog demanding that I play, I completely forgot about the videos playing on the TV in the bedroom. The volume was low and I was distracted. I’d returned to the front bedroom closet concentrating on the mountain of paperwork and odd bits & pieces of stuff collected over the past 13 \u00a0years or so.\u00a0<\/p>\n I would ocassionally hear a voice, but couldn\u2019t make it out, and thought that it was coming from outside the house. (The weather is nice so it\u2019s routine for the crazy woman and her crazy man to be screaming at each other, one in the house and the other in the yard. Everytime they start up I first imagine an episode of COPS and then tune them out.)<\/p>\n Several hours pass as I\u2019m digging through paperwork, playing with the dog, and tossing stuff into the recycle bin. During all this time I\u2019ve been hearing voices and simply assumed it was the neighbors then cursed their classless nature under my breath…<\/p>\n Until one of the performers in a movie had a particularly loud orgasmic release.<\/p>\n Then I remembered the videos were playing in the other bedroom and found myself taking back all the unkind things I\u2019d been thinking and muttering about the crazy neighbor and her mate.<\/p>\n So, Note to self, turn the volume up so I can hear the video playing the the other room, or turn the volume down and be happily surprised when I walk into the bedroom and see the porn is still running.<\/p>\n And now I\u2019m off to throw the ball for the dog once again. I can\u2019t deny him, but do think he\u2019s mastered distracting me from the tasks that I need to accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In preparation for possibly selling the house, I\u2019ve been cleaning closets. The other half, God rest his soul was a heck of a packrat and had a habit of saving all kinds of paperwork in boxes, backpacks, shopping bags, and disused briefcases. Each one of which I must now open and determine from which epoc … <\/p>\n