Leave Cali day 20

I hired a pal to work on the controller part of the mill. He was diligent enough to make up this binder for me.

His design notes, software, and schematics were included.

I backed it all up on my NAS.

Once I made sure I had the files, I could toss the binders, no need to keep them anymore.

The binders also had contact info that I could scan or take a picture of.

Purchase orders and bills of material were there, some with red-lines I scanned.

The cabinet in the garage gets a little lighter every week. It was bittersweet, tossing this.

Here is the cyanide that my mentor gave me, I assume because he could not dispose of it..

I think it only takes a few drops to kill you. I double-bagged it for the dump workers.

On the way to the dump, I noticed this little plant fighting for survival. I thought it was a good life lesson, to just keep growing.

Here is another milling machine binder. This was for that ac cabinet I tore apart a few days before. I documented the enclosure here, as well as posting all the design files. I figured there was no need to haul binders to Florida if I had all the files on my hard drive and the internet.

I developed a good mindset about this time, "What can I get rid of, sell, or give away?" If the Sunnyvale hazmat day did not come up at the perfect time, I would have had to taken all the stuff to the apartment I rented the last six months in California, to wait for the day I could dispose of this. Hurray serendipity.