Hey, check it out--I think I stumbled onto some karma. [View All]

[Orrex]

My job requires me to drive extensively during the day, and during the past two weeks I've been in one part of rural eastern Ohio.

Last week I drove past a 17" CRT monitor and a keyboard that were marked "works," so I turned around and went back to pick them up. I put them both in my trunk, and on my way home at the end of the day I dropped them off at a local thrift store. Unlike Goodwill, this store is staffed by volunteers, and all of the proceeds from sales (after utilities and rent) go directly into a small, six-bed "drying out" facility. In the past we've donated a lot of baby stuff to this store, as well as some basic articles of furniture. But computer stuff seems to go pretty well for them, so I was happy to be able to give it to them.

So yesterday I happened to be driving on the same stretch of Ohio road, and I saw that someone else had thrown out a 21" monitor. Once again I stopped to pick it up, even though there was no "works" sign. It was missing the power cord and the SVGA cable, but I had those.

As it turns out, the monitor works perfectly despite its age (nine years), and it's quite a bit bigger than the 17" one I'd been using. I suppose that I could donate this one as well, but my spirit isn't quite that generous. Regardless, the thrift store will be getting my old and fully functional monitor, so everybody wins. Of course, now I need a sturdier desk...


Okay, anyone here who knows me probably knows that I'm not actually a believer in karma, but I still have a healthy appreciation for nifty coincidence when it pops up, as it appears to have done in this case.