PghMac.com
PghMac.com
2013
Dear Mac friends:
Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Peter Carras, Jon Smith, Sam Hughes, Dhundi Pokhrel, Justin Giebel, Aidan Honnold, Andrew Chiao, and Dave Sevick for joining me yesterday for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center “annex.”
The only thing in life that doesn’t change is Change. And there’s a lot of it for us.
I will be bowing out after this next week to be able to be close to home for my wife, Laura’s, upcoming hip surgery. I need to be around to do the things that need be done around a house when half of the people aren’t able to do the things they normally do. Here’s hoping she really like peanut butter sandwiches. I can zap PRAM like a champ but my culinary skills are deeply suspect.
Our operation is also changing also. I’m sure many of you note the almost weekly message “no deliveries of donated Macs from Goodwill this week.” Well, again this week it was the same. And we really have had no indication when that will change.
This week was the third we’ve spent critically examining the “parts” Macs we’ve being holding on to over a long period of time. And again, we couldn’t justify keeping them. We simply don’t know when those parts would be used, if ever.
So another 87 Mac have been consigned for de-manufacturing, along with many other parts we’ve carefully harvested over the past six years. That makes 220 Macs consigned for recycling in the past three weeks.
On the bright side, we did discover two Macs for refurbishing. Our all-time total is now 3,477.
There’s still work left to do. Our purge is not complete, and there’s three dozen G3 iMacs to refurbish for Computer Reach, with probably more to follow.
We will gather again on Friday, July 26 at 2400 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh’s South Side. We open about 8:30 a.m., break for lunch at the Double Wide Grill (lunch: $12 up) across the street about 11:45, and leave about 3:30 p.m. You’re welcome to come anytime during the work day. We hope to see you there!
Robert A. Donaldson
Goodwill CRC update for Friday, July 19, 2013
July 20, 2013