Choice quote:
"I am writing this from the car, sitting in the passenger seat with my shoes off. I
have been standing for 12 hours. I've been giving introductions and tours and
explanations and theories and everything else that comes when you put a bunch of
strangers together with a single-minded purpose. They have been too good. Way better than
anybody deserves in the way of volunteers. They have been helpful, kind, inquisitive,
dedicated. They have come from miles around. Sometime around 11 a.m., it became very
obvious that the 252 banker boxes we have bought or a laughable underestimation. We were
going to need more. We are going to need much more, and we were going to need it now. I
made a call to the Uline Company, and asked for the impossible: I wanted 8 pallets of
boxes, delivered within the day. And within four hours, they arrived. To deliver 1052
banker boxes within 4 hours, combined with the cost of the boxes themselves, was
$4000."
It really makes me wish I could be there and help out with the remaining work.
Holy crap! and best of luck!
I shared Jason's original announcement on the MARCH list. We have
members in Baltimore, DC, Pennsylvania, and Delaware who could help. A
few were able to get there and help. In addition, we offered to
physically store -- for free -- any of the paper manuals that are
computer/electronics-related (as opposed to, say, the manual for a 1962
milling machine). I am waiting to hear back from Jason about whether he
needs that assistance. (We won't take any offense is he declines; after
all, our storage facility is not yet climate controlled.)
