{"id":1201,"date":"2007-03-30T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/03\/30\/in-purging-mode\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T14:01:30","slug":"in-purging-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/03\/30\/in-purging-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"In Purging Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First I sold the Aibo robot dog on ebay. Then a pair of pants. (Thanks, Randy, for your help)<\/p>\n<p>Then my old computer monitor on Craigslist\u00a0(which went with the CPU that was flooded at Best Buy). Then I sold some speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m selling my CD rack since, in another act of purging, I&#8217;ve transfered all of my CD&#8217;s into a portable carrying case to save space (and since I never use CD&#8217;s anymore&#8230;but don&#8217;t want to get rid of them, just in case). A woman is coming by on Saturday to take it away. This should open up space in my living room.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve been working on that photo scanning project to get rid of my photo albums. I&#8217;m down to the last stack of photos to scan (FINALLY) and these loose photos take up a LOT less space than my photo albums did. Now I just need to find a water-tight box to put them in and I&#8217;m all set.<\/p>\n<p>This feels good.\u00a0 I like cleaning things up. Out with the old, in the with the new. Though, I must admit I&#8217;m rather fond of these old (mostly) black and white photos I scanned earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>1938 &#8211; My Mom in the 1930&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"492\" alt=\"300000 Mom in Everett MA in the 1930s.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2007\/03\/300000%20Mom%20in%20Everett%20MA%20in%20the%201930s.jpg\" width=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1940&#8217;s &#8211; My Mom and\u00a0my grandmother (can you tell my Mom was a tomboy&#8230;dressing like a man even in the 40&#8217;s..how Katherine Hepburn!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"481\" alt=\"400000 Mom Nana in the 1940s Everett MA 01.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2007\/03\/400000%20Mom%20Nana%20in%20the%201940s%20Everett%20MA%2001.jpg\" width=\"237\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1940&#8217;s &#8211; My Mom&#8217;s family at a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"276\" alt=\"400000 Mom Carl Nana Verna Dottie Bernie Iseman in the 1940s White Mountains.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2007\/03\/400000%20Mom%20Carl%20Nana%20Verna%20Dottie%20Bernie%20Iseman%20in%20the%201940s%20White%20Mountains.jpg\" width=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1950&#8217;s &#8211; My Mom on vacation in Atlantic City (I love this photo)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"463\" alt=\"500000 Mom in 1950s Atlantic City.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2007\/03\/500000%20Mom%20in%201950s%20Atlantic%20City.jpg\" width=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1950&#8217;s &#8211; Osterville (where I was raised)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"289\" alt=\"500000 Osterville postcard from 1950s.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2007\/03\/500000%20Osterville%20postcard%20from%201950s.jpg\" width=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1979 &#8211; My third grade picture<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"375\" alt=\"790000 Karl 3rd grade.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/files\/2007\/03\/790000%20Karl%203rd%20grade.jpg\" width=\"262\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First I sold the Aibo robot dog on ebay. Then a pair of pants. (Thanks, Randy, for your help) Then my old computer monitor on Craigslist\u00a0(which went with the CPU that was flooded at Best Buy). Then I sold some speakers. Now I&#8217;m selling my CD rack since, in another act of purging, I&#8217;ve transfered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}