Hello. My name's Dave, and I'm a Calcoholic.

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(01-07-2020 09:45 PM)David Hayden Wrote:  It started slowly enough, but then over the Christmas break, I went on a buying/asking bender that has resulted in an HP-25, a woodstock LP, a 41C wand, 2 woodstock battery holders, a 32s 50th anniversary edition, a rebuilt 41C printer battery, and a bunch of documentation. Last night I realized that I really need to allocate some dedicated storage space to this stuff. I [pause, voice starts to crack] ... I keep calculators all around the house [sniff]. They're in my desk, my laptop case, lots in the nightstand. I have pieces and parts in the basement. There are probably others that I can't recall.

And I'm loving every minute of it!!!!

First of all, all the readers are supposed to say "Hello David" in unison, but that's hard on a board like this, so I'll just reply "Hello David" myself.

Second - I've read and re-read your paragraph several times looking closely for patterns of dangerous, unusual or abhorrent behavior, but I don't see any at all. All these symptoms and behaviors seem completely normal to me. I don't know... maybe this is not the best place to seek an assessment that this is not normal behavior.