hushed gray: the Kevin chronicles

Sunday, March 04, 2007

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To kick off my spring cleaning/deleavening last night, I pulled out a box containing everything from tax records to modeling clay and went through it, leaving what had been a full box only about 1/3 full. Anyway, I discovered some of my old air check tapes from college, and put a couple on for Devon, who'd come over for the evening. And we laughed, they were so awful. "Yur listenin' tuh V-nahnty-wun." And my voice sounded like it was about an octave and a half higher than it sounds now. I still make some mistakes on-air, but at least I make them in a much more professional-sounding manner.

I did receive the box of covers from WKU I guess on Thursday, and spent some time Friday and today sorting through those. It didn't take me as long as I'd anticipated, mainly because I weeded out the chaff to begin with and had a much smaller stack to process. I found close to 20 items of particular interest, and I'm making an offer for the lot. It's well below catalogue value, which I've disclosed, and if it's accepted I think I can recover my expenses. If not...well, I still had fun appraising/evaluating the envelopes. The most interesting find was mailed from Camp Douglas, a prison camp in Illinois that housed captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. No letter inside, of course, but just to know I was handling a piece of history more than 140 years old...very cool.

I'm hoping this week to cut through some of the stuff stashed away under the bed and futon as I continue trying to clean out. It's kind of sad how much stuff can accumulate in one little apartment--worthless stuff that probably should have been thrown away whenever I stashed it but which I for some reason apparently thought might come in handy someday.

Mr. T gave a very worthwhile sermon yesterday titled "Preparing for Leadership," basing 12 points in the sermon on the life of Joshua. Interesting stuff. A group of us young folks went to lunch at Panera's afterwards. And yesterday afternoon I got a phone call from Sarah and we talked for a good while.

It's forecast to be down in the upper 30's here tonight. Colder than I really care for, but at least we don't have snow or ice.

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