The geek gadget, a game of myst and my quest for an organized life

I'm organizing: My home, the files on my laptop, and now my blog*. I'm purging from everywhere and wondering how stuff physically and virtually accumulates even when I consider myself a minimalist consumer? And then sometimes I pick up speed and do away with something that comes back to haunt me.

So, like a month ago I donated a couple of bags of clothes, vhs tapes, and other odds and ends to a yard sale that served as a fundraiser for high school scholarships--a real do-gooder and green act. As he was helping me load the car Mr. CD got his chonis in a bunch when he spotted a computer game of Myst.** I was giving it away because he never played it. He explained it was not compatible with something on his computer--blah, blah, blah. I shrugged and told him to to put it aside if he was not ready to give it up but he did not. And he verbalized his dissapointment at no longer having this game randomly--usually at moments when I was just enjoying life, yes, I never wanted to talk about it again--and then my prayers were answered and someone*** somewhere in gaming world released a Myst version for the I-touch**** and now he can pull knobs and crank levels to his hearts delight from the comfort of anywhere he takes his favorite new geek gadget: the lawn chair, the couch, the bed, and yes even the toilet.

*I'm deleting irrelevant and outdated files from my laptop. And I plan to tidy up and reorganize my blog. I know an update is in place but I'm not sure what that would be.

**Just to be clear I'm not the mommy dearest of wives. He owns the game because I gave it to him one Christmas after hearing him talk about it. Unfortunately, I didn't know to look for pc compatibility--apparently his computer was too high tech for the game version I bought and I can't recall why he never took it back. After that I got better with choosing games (i.e . gift cards.)

***Thank you gaming geek or geekette out there that designs games.

****In case anyone cares, my favorite I touch application is the level. It just made so much sense when I saw it. I would make a purchase around that app.