Autumn clean

This weekend I’ve been recalled back to my parents’ house to clear my old room so that it can be redecorated, which means going through the enormous amounts of stuff I’ve collected over the years and throwing out as much as possible. Some of the things I’ve found whilst sifting through the piles of paperwork and books include:

1. A piece of art I bought in Paris ten years ago, still wrapped up.
2. The Warped banner and a few books which escaped the library handover.
3. Copy of the database schemas for Fuse FM (I hope they’ve changed the default admin password).
4. Vote Labour poster (no idea how that got there!)
5. Project log book, which thankfully no longer smells of perfume.

I also hadn’t realised how therapeutic it is to go through everything and make a concerted effort to weed out the unnecessary cruft, such as issues of computing magazines which are several years old and are therefore never going to be useful in the future.

On the thesis front I still have a few more small amendments to make – mainly minor changes to diagrams, restructuring a few paragraphs and adding a final conclusion. I’ve set a deadline of Thursday for the final version, so I can print it on Friday and hand it in for binding on Saturday – at which point it is over to all intents and purposes.