Hi Y’all,
Well, back in 05 I told you about being a Dummy at this URL. http://www.minibite.com/bubba/confession.htm

I really hated to admit such ignorance and lack of attention, but I did it.

Now I come crawling on my knees needing some sort of forgiveness for being an even bigger dummy now!

Dang I hate to admit this! If ya got time - just read this dummy story!

Now if ya knew me back even before then, my "Repairing the Car" stuff/blog started way back in 2003 when I lived in a much smaller place. That place had a lot of problems, which I wrote and giggled about. Then came this house in 2003 and then 2005 and my "I am a Dummy" story among others.

This one is I am a Dummy 2.

It is really embarrassing but I gotta be honest, I am happy I get to tell this story!

It goes something like this. My memory is getting a bit hazy at my age, as some of you might know. But I not only lost the Windows 98 Software back in the I am a Dummy" story, but it seems I am even a lot dumber than that.

To cut down on the confusion and mistakes a good mover will label every box so it will be easy to find in the new place. Some even go so far as to label the contents on the outside of the boxes and mark which "new" room it goes to in the move.

I am such a person that writes on boxes. I even get ahead by labeling the boxes before I even tape them into the open and ready to pack position. I do know what has to fit in there and where it needs to go in the new house! I can think ahead! I can be wrong in my estimates of what a dang box will hold also, I found out. The hard way of course! Is there any other way to really learn things?

I had a few friends that came over occasionally to help pack up all of the things to move in all of those boxes I bought!

Now I must say I did not get too far ahead of myself. Most of the boxes got labeled AFTER we packed them. These boxes obviously were labeled much more faithfully and accurately than those I got in a hurry and labeled ahead, guessing what they might be able to contain.

OK, I said this is "I am a Dummy 2". Some of the last things to be packed during this move was my bathroom, my bedroom/office, my desk and under the bed contents.

I obviously did not relate the rules of packing to one of my friends. He went into my bedroom/office and grabbed a box or two (which had been pre-labeled) and crammed anything that got in front of his hands into the boxes. Bless his heart!

After moving I unpacked stuff and my wife placed it where it goes and dusted, shuffled, and replaced things until she liked where it sat, mostly that is. She still shuffles things around a lot at times. That has to be a woman thing. My stuff is still where I put it a few years ago. That is where it belongs.

I had two or three boxes in my closets that contained things I did not need immediately so I did not unpack them. Left them right there to sit more things on as the years went by.

Now this story is predicated by my loss of some extremely expensive software called AutoCad Mechanical 2000, that I decided I needed several years ago.



I looked on my Credenza first of course, then in every cabinet, closet shelf and room in the house. Then I searched the garage and all of it’s hiding places (again and again). That AutoCad software was just plain gone! Gone as in not here. I must have loaned it to someone, which is illegal I might add. I just could not believe I would do that for any reasonable purpose. However, I called every person that I thought might have wanted to take a peek at this design software. No one I knew admitted to having borrowed it. I was devastated. I spent several days each year looking around in places I really knew I had already looked, but based on past experiences I thought I had better take a second look everywhere (time after time and again and again).

Except in that one box in the bottom closet of my office that was labeled "Old Books/photos/Stan’s office". Well of course there would not be any software that cost over $3000.00 in that box now would there? Nope that is just old stuff kept for some unknown reason.

Now today, in the month of May 2007, I am looking for something totally different. I found several things scattered around that I had looked for at one time or another in the past three or four years, but never found. But none was what I wanted at this moment.

I am sure you have guessed by now that I found the "lost software" in this box in my office closet. Yep I did.

However, I also found a container of hazardous materials, my place for old needles used to check my blood sugar levels, two syringes with "butterfly" needles and with "pics" (IV tubes that were in my arm for injecting antibiotics twice a day an hour at a time). I wonder how many obscene things are still growing on those things?



a box of Jack Daniels matches, not a good idea to store this nonsense,



and some unused needles and test strips for a diabetic, which I am guilty of being.



These items certainly do not belong in a box in a hot closet. I found 4 perfectly good baseballs – some signed by someone and some not signed – and a ton of other odds and ends. I had forgotten I even ever owned some of this stuff. I won’t go into a detailed item list here. I bet you are glad!

Again I did not find what I was looking for, but you would think that a person looking for something that cost over $3000.00, which should be in the office area somewhere, would consider opening every box in the whole dang place! Especially over a three or four year period!

Not old numbnuts here, I trusted my labeling. Again, I won’t even go into what all I found in that box. However, there were no old books or photos from "Stan’s bedroom/office". Now I have to go find what happened to all of those things. I have no clue where they might be and I really "think" I have opened every box that was moved into this house. No bets being taken on this subject by me. Of course there is that dang huge storage room we have rented ever since we moved in here. I ain't going there right now!

But I am a Dummy you know! I could be wrong – again! This "getting old stuff" is not what it was cracked up to be by my grandparents! But they did not move but three times in their lives I think it was? And they never had all of this junk I seem to carry around for the span of my lifetime for whatever unknown reason.

Does anyone need an old CPM based Xerox 820-II computer that uses two 8" floppy discs to run software and working files on? I don't think you would even know what the heck that is, but I have one that came from the Xerox Corp display rooms at some huge business display place down on I35 in Dallas. I don't even remember the name of the place but I think it was, or is, the Infomart. I also have an old "Daisy Wheel" printer to go with it.

OK, so I now have the very expensive software in hand. However, I have retired and I no longer really need it. But you can bet I am going to install this software on one of my computers, and by golly, I am going to design something mechanical. Anyone need a mechanical design out there?

Old Bubba here