Things I lose, things I find.

Readers with a keen eye will notice that the web address for my blog has nothing to do with its name. My original thought was that this would be a forum for me to comment on all of the things that I have accumulated throughout my life.

I gave up on that rather quickly and changed the name. The web address remains the same.

To help facilitate a construction project that is going on in my house, I have been in the process of boxing up all of the things that I have accumulated in the attic room that I have used as the landing space for what I have broadly defined as "my goofy crap."

Hopefully soon it will be emptied so that the ceiling can be replaced and then will come the rapturous process of unpacking. I hope to detail this process here.

So right now the stuff on the top layers have been packed up and are somewhat inaccessible, which makes things a little awkward - for example, just a couple of days ago I offered to scan a yearish old magazine article - and now I can't find the magazine. It is buried.

In the meantime, I'm finding all sorts of old things. I just came across a videotape I made of The Comic Strip from the MTV broadcasts. Now I can find out for certain what was cut from whatever episodes might be on the tape. And in another box -- The first Massive Attack album! On cassette tape! I can't remember buying this. I feel so proud of myself. I'm going to have to dig out a tape player so I can listen to it.

But it looks like the box it was in has been buried as well.