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My name is Christen. My likes include free coffee, bowling, cocktails, sleeping in, crafts and tacky jewelry. My dislikes include licorice.

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 I can be rrrreached at icicle at freegeek dot org
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-Bless me, councilors, for I have slacked. It's been three months since my last recycling report. The last three months have been more chaotic than usual for me, as I have been dealing with personal health issues and an exceptional surfeit of hardware donations, both of which have left me too buriby106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/hmhome?fti=yes&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=781b06dc570b0da5135c448daf37b2c151574a5a4711d6a3df118c776a1825fbed and fatigued to file proper and regular reports. However, things are getting back on track again, and though they are coming along slowly, I'm trying to make the recycling area look and run much better. I've had a ton of help from Guy and Nathan, who built shelving for incoming monitors, and rearranged the wlo-filling bins to create an additional workstation near the black hole. Not only that, the area behind the recycling work bench is no longer a death trap. It's not a perfect system, but it's something.
+"If it had been an outright junkyard, probably he could have stuck things out, made a career: the violence that had caused each wreck being infrequent enough, far away from him, to be miraculous, as each death, up until the moment of our own, is miraculous. But the endless rituals of trade-in, week after week, never got as far as violence or blood, and so were plausible for the impressionable Mucho to take for long. Even if enough exposure to the unvarying gray sickness had somehow managed to immunize him, he could still never accept the way each owner, each shadow, filed in only to exchange a dented, malfunctioning version of himself for another, just as futureless, automotive projection of somebody else's life. As if it were the most natural thing. To Mucho is was horrible. Endless, convoluted incest."
+- Thomas Pynchon, <I> The Crying of Lot 49</I>

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 Interested parties are encouraged to familiarize themselves with this document [[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1718072]].
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-Bless me, councilors, for I have slacked. It's been three months since my last recycling report. The last three months have been more chaotic than usual for me, as I have been dealing with personal health issues and an exceptional surfeit of hardware donations, both of which have left me too buried and fatigued to file proper and regular reports. However, things are getting back on track again, and though they are coming along slowly, I'm trying to make the recycling area look and run much better. I've had a ton of help from Guy and Nathan, who built shelving for incoming monitors, and rearranged the wlo-filling bins to create an additional workstation near the black hole. Not only that, the area behind the recycling work bench is no longer a death trap. It's not a perfect system, but it's something.
+Bless me, councilors, for I have slacked. It's been three months since my last recycling report. The last three months have been more chaotic than usual for me, as I have been dealing with personal health issues and an exceptional surfeit of hardware donations, both of which have left me too buriby106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/hmhome?fti=yes&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=781b06dc570b0da5135c448daf37b2c151574a5a4711d6a3df118c776a1825fbed and fatigued to file proper and regular reports. However, things are getting back on track again, and though they are coming along slowly, I'm trying to make the recycling area look and run much better. I've had a ton of help from Guy and Nathan, who built shelving for incoming monitors, and rearranged the wlo-filling bins to create an additional workstation near the black hole. Not only that, the area behind the recycling work bench is no longer a death trap. It's not a perfect system, but it's something.
 Recycling has seen several important changes since my last report. Anecdotally, we are simply handling much, much more hardware than we were when I started my job in June. I have learned the hard way that this makes for a much smaller margin of error when it comes to my job. One missed or cancelled pickup (as I experienced today), one huge hardware donation, one forklift breakdown -- all of which have occurred in recycling in the last month -- can take days or even weeks to get un-buried. Heck, we received a donation of a film-to-video translator last week, and that alone blocked much of the recyling work area for several days.
 I think this ties in with the recent discussion of how to reduce clutter at Free Geek. I would agree with Matthew's assessment that while it may look like we are being complacent about clutter, it's a fact that we all spend a lot of time cleaning up messes. It's just that new messes replace recently-cleaned ones very quickly. That said, I also like Richard's ideas for helping Free Geek in general become more organized -- particularly, puttign someone in charge of each given work area. Not only does it build in accountability; when one person is responsible for a specific area and want to make it run smoothly, that can force people to make decisions about an object rather than hem and haw about whether and how it might be useful. The recycling area is often used to store large items that aren't there to be recycled (say, the shoe bike, or pallets of grant boxes), or large items that take a long time to recycle. I try to be a good sport about this, but because it does congest the recycling area, I try to get a timeline from the parties who placed them there and work around it. If I can't get a timeline, I throw down a deadline ("three days or it goes in the steel dumpster").

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	Interested parties are encouraged to familiarize themselves with this document [[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1718072]].		Interested parties are encouraged to familiarize themselves with this document [[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1718072]].
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		+	Bless me, councilors, for I have slacked. It's been three months since my last recycling report. The last three months have been more chaotic than usual for me, as I have been dealing with personal health issues and an exceptional surfeit of hardware donations, both of which have left me too buried and fatigued to file proper and regular reports. However, things are getting back on track again, and though they are coming along slowly, I'm trying to make the recycling area look and run much better. I've had a ton of help from Guy and Nathan, who built shelving for incoming monitors, and rearranged the wlo-filling bins to create an additional workstation near the black hole. Not only that, the area behind the recycling work bench is no longer a death trap. It's not a perfect system, but it's something.
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		+	Recycling has seen several important changes since my last report. Anecdotally, we are simply handling much, much more hardware than we were when I started my job in June. I have learned the hard way that this makes for a much smaller margin of error when it comes to my job. One missed or cancelled pickup (as I experienced today), one huge hardware donation, one forklift breakdown -- all of which have occurred in recycling in the last month -- can take days or even weeks to get un-buried. Heck, we received a donation of a film-to-video translator last week, and that alone blocked much of the recyling work area for several days.
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		+	I think this ties in with the recent discussion of how to reduce clutter at Free Geek. I would agree with Matthew's assessment that while it may look like we are being complacent about clutter, it's a fact that we all spend a lot of time cleaning up messes. It's just that new messes replace recently-cleaned ones very quickly. That said, I also like Richard's ideas for helping Free Geek in general become more organized -- particularly, puttign someone in charge of each given work area. Not only does it build in accountability; when one person is responsible for a specific area and want to make it run smoothly, that can force people to make decisions about an object rather than hem and haw about whether and how it might be useful. The recycling area is often used to store large items that aren't there to be recycled (say, the shoe bike, or pallets of grant boxes), or large items that take a long time to recycle. I try to be a good sport about this, but because it does congest the recycling area, I try to get a timeline from the parties who placed them there and work around it. If I can't get a timeline, I throw down a deadline ("three days or it goes in the steel dumpster").

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−	My name is Christen. My likes include free coffee, bowling, cocktails, sleeping in, crafts and tacky jewelry. My dislikes include licorice.	+	My name is Christen. My likes include free coffee, bowling, cocktails, sleeping in, crafts and tacky jewelry. I My professional interests include words and smashing.
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		+	My dislikes include licorice.
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		+	I can be rrrreached at icicle at freegeek dot org