Steve Jobs' Other Company

In the late 90's, I was buying large amounts of surplus neXT monitors as Steve Jobs' defunct neXT was being liquidated. We were able to tune them to the Apple Macintosh video spec and sell them to Mac users. I passed on many neXT computers, that could be had for a song. I talked to people and nobody considered them valuable. I thought they were charming anachronisms, but I wish now that I had bought a load of neXT cubes, and just put them away. I was smart enough to grab a few very early Apple computers, and a bizarre early 8088 pc, built like a suitcase, and called a transportable. Who knew that those neXT cubes would ever be collectible and quite valuable?

Animal Hoarding

I was a little worried when I suddenly had four dogs in August, but I just met the queen of animal hoarders. All the chickens and feral cats around here are hers. She has easily 3 dozen cats right around her porch, and her chickens are uncounted. She says she catches them when she can, but so many lay eggs and propagate outside her control that she admits they are really just wild. She was often talking to her favorite cat, while I was there, I guess she's lonely and all these animals provide her with something. Her husband is in prison for spousal abuse, and together they used to own a lot of the land to the north of me.