Caf-fiend
In order to deal with this –

and yet another pile of floppies
It really helps to have caffeine. You can drink it fizzy, you can drink it in tea, coffee… or it can take over your life –

whimsy pieces
which came from Artifact Puzzles which is my other source of lovely wooden puzzles. Those fun little bits fit into this –

which totally works with the table cloth
and becomes the little fiend –

at the end
right about the time that I dropped the last diskette in here –

one full brown paper bag
Of course, now that I have had a volunteer (thank you SO MUCH Steve) who actually is willing to take a few diskettes off my hand (yes, there are other geeks than me out there) and can actually play some of these games which I still have on original diskette. Plus who doesn’t need their very own MS-DOs 3.1?
By the time I was through all of this I managed only a couple of boxes sorted from the garage, drank enough fluids for someone twice my size and rounded out the rest of the day with progress on that fractal –

4 Feb 2017
which with any luck I will be able to finish tomorrow. The purple is within six rows of the bottom which means it isn’t that much further for the greens or yellow. Of course, there is the slight issue of the Cal Basketball games which are a little higher on my priority list. But I can bring knitting to those….