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I'm resting at the moment. I wrote up an ambitious to-do list for today, and I won't be able to scratch out everything on the list. But looking at the glass as half-full, I did clean out The Stuff Closet From Hell. That was a day's worth of accomplishment on its own. I have been daunted by The Stuff Closet, wanting to tackle it but being frightened by it, for a couple of years now. Imagine boxes full of masses of snarled cables of assorted type-- phone wire, serial cables, power cables, ethernet, ADB, USB, etc.-- tangled together. Imagine shelves and shelves of bits and pieces of decrepit obsolete computer equipment. Mysterious contraptions constructed out of butchered serial cables and alligator clips. Mouse turds on the floor. It has been conquered. All sorted and boxed, the useless and/or known to be broken things thrown away. This is amazing.

Also reserved a shuttle from Penn Station to JFK airport. Cut through my indecision-- subway? shuttle? taxi?-- and just did it. Of the two shuttle services that I could find on the web that seemed to do direct Penn Station to JFK, one seems to have gone out of business; the other took forever to answer the phone. I'm not sure that booking a shuttle was the best thing to do. For just $10 or $12 more, we could've caught a taxi, and not had to decide ahead of time how to apportion our time between Manhattan and the airport; Manhattan tends to be crawling with cabs, I think. OTOH, if I'm feeling cheap, apparently we could have taken the A train for about an hour, then a free bus from the Far Rockaway subway station to the airport. Well, this was a compromise between expensive vs. hassle. Whether it's a good compromise, we'll see. At least it's something.