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July 20, 2004
What is WRONG with me?!?
Okay, so I'm spending every spare moment packing and purging (man, is it EVER liberating to toss YEARS-in-the-making collections, stacks, and STUFF!) and I come across my 377-page Getting Interactive with Authorware manual by Lloyd P. Rieber, circa 1997 and the start of my PhD program in Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia.
Why do I feel the need to keep this thing?!?
I don't understand it. I haven't OWNED a computer on which the version of Authorware depicted in this manual's pages could operate since 1999. I haven't DESIGNED a piece of Authorware software since 1998, in the class associated with this very manual. I haven't RUN a piece of software designed on Authorware since 1998 (unless I may have run my programs in 1999, just for sentimental reasons--can't recall).
Why do I want to keep the manual that taught me how to program in Authorware? Well, it IS a very well-written and easy-to-follow technical manual, as technical manuals go.
I must say that the most influential "while-petsitting-and-not-packing" reading I've done this week has been Clear Your Clutter With Fung Shui. If that can't decrease your OCD/packrat tendencies, I don't know what will!
LIBERATING! That's what throwing things away IS!
Posted by bonnie at July 20, 2004 02:09 PM
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Dude. Get rid of the Authorware book. I'm sure you can download it from Lloyd's website if you ever need to.
I've never thrown away anything ever.
Posted by: chip at July 20, 2004 06:19 PM
Hey Bon: if you need any more boxes we have all sizes, well, many sizes, here at The Koellisch Corral. Packing tape too!
let me know!
Now go check that garage again!
Posted by: cindy at July 23, 2004 02:15 PM