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So, y'all may have heard about the clusterflop* that was DC's Hazardous Waste/E-cycling event: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/26/AR2008042601220_2.html?hpid=artslot

RM & I virtuously scoured the house for appropriate items and amassed quite a pile:

2 VCRs
1 cable receiver box
1 24-inch television
a bookshelf stereo system w/speakers
11 mostly-empty gallon-size cans of paint
4 mostly-empty quart-size cans of paint
2 mostly-empty pint-size cans of paint
a boom box (the first one I owned, from 10th grade ... I felt a twinge of nostalgia over that one)
a seven-year-old iBook
31 miscellaneous AC/DC converters, coax cables, phone cords, etc.
1 pair of rabbit ears antennae
one weird little computer adapter
one cell phone
2 computer speakers
a mouse
an external modem
21 3.5-inch floppies
a Mac zip-disk
57 CD-ROM disks
21 5.25-inch floppies (including the one that held my homework assignments from the "Introduction to Basic" class I took in 1983)

At quarter of three, we gave up on the line of traffic, pulled over to a parking spot, and carried everything in on foot (it took seven trips). I don't even want to think about how much gas we used idling for two and half hours.

*This is my new favorite imprecation; I learned it watching the edited-for-television version of "Heartbreak Ridge." It begins with all the formidable power of military cussing and ends like a bunny.