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Fri + Sat Nov 27-28

Got internal disk drive upgrade + new ROM. After a very awful (crowded w/trolls) workout at the Body, I went to Businessland for diskettes (DSDD) and found a 3.5" external drive in beige, for just $299. The computer store wanted $350 list + $350 discount, but mail order was only $209. (But that's not an Apple drive thru the mail).

Friday evening I learned all about new ROM and finder 5.x, and arranged Pers Acct, Word and Excel appropriately. Mom + Dad called. Busy day downtown. They bought VCR for Meg + Eric.

Saturday I finished Mac upgrade study. Looked at Mac 3.01 lessons, and there's nothing I want to learn, I don't know already. Also did a lot of miscellaneous.

Reconsider why I want to redecorate:

- I won't be here much, so why do it?

- Things fit well in bookshelves I have now, except for stuff that I could either

- put in a few binders

- put in YEARLY shoeboxes

- take to San Francisco

- Maybe strange to change bedroom + den after all these years

- Would have to rethink wiring, etc.

- Would have to spend quite a bit of $$$

- Most things I need to keep organized here are not worth the time + money to worry about, and they are fine as they are.

And consider whether I really want to keep writing daily diary.

After dinner, I went through all of the information that I felt wasn't well placed, and either threw it out, or put it in binders. Most important, I threw out all those Nightengale Conant ads (on my desk for so long) and using bookends I put the new binders along with blue notebook. GREAT!