A little stupified tonight, after a fast dinner and some trick-or-treating in the dark (we forgot the flashlights, but it was warm!), so I'm staring at the rubble on my desk here at home. To wit:

• A notepad detailing the increases in my health insurance premiums
• CD of the programs at the 2006 USENIX conference in Boston
• Four 3.5" floppy disks, contents unknown, labels not to be trusted
• A roll of film, exposed, contents also unknown
• An Alumni sticker from my college
• A smashed penny with an imprint from the Udvar-Hazy Center
• A roll of slide film, unexposed
• A small magnet, part of "Refrigerator Shakespeare"- the word is 'codpiece'.
• A scrap bearing a root password from years ago
• Extra Tao XM2Go battery
• A microcassette, labeled '9/21 JMG'- interview with my grandmother
• Blistex
• Pair of hospital wristbands from Margaret's arrival, "BG Morgan"
• A bundle of slides from my trip to Germany in 1998
• 100-watt GE Reveal lightbulb, unburnt
• "Christmas in the Loudoun Valleys" pamphlet, details local Christmas tree farms
• Two CDs of digital photos and scans
• Two safety pins
• A Kansas state quarter, an Israeli coin
• Three roofing nails
• Paint can opener, doubles as bottle opener
• And for completeness, pens, pencils, many beyond use, but quite helpful at holding my desk down

I dare not look too far afield here in the basement office. The list would be staggering to type, but it's all somehow comforting to live amongst.

Now, back to examining the Internets.