Kirk Petersen » astronomy http://kirkpetersen.com Miscellany Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:00:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Selling Stuff http://kirkpetersen.com/2009/08/06/selling-stuff/ http://kirkpetersen.com/2009/08/06/selling-stuff/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:04:07 +0000 kirk http://kirkpetersen.com/?p=274 I’m selling my 8″ Dobsonian telescope. I’ll probably be asking about $150 and might make it $100 if any friends are interested. It is a great telescope if you have an SUV to haul it around in. It’s about 4 feet tall and the base is very bulky. That’s the downside of a telescope that gathers that much light for that price. I’ll just be using a set of 15×70 binoculars for the 2-3 times a year that I actually look at stars (worked great last weekend).

I’ll probably sell my 15″ Macbook Pro. I just bought one of the new aluminum Macbooks and really don’t need two machines (rather, my iPhone has become my second machine).

Also selling my car (in order to buy a new/newer one). I will probably sell my motorcycle, too. I didn’t ride for a couple years and really felt like getting back into it. But I just don’t ride it enough. Part of that is the bike (not as fun as I thought it would be) and part of that is simply having a million other things to do.

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