On 15 February 2004 I built a card house using two decks of cards that I had brought back to my apartment after a weekend getaway in Virginia. I had brought back two more decks, but rather than continue building and encroach even more on my living space, I left the card house as it was, where it has since remained, accumulating an uptime that would make many computers jealous.
Today marks its 120th day of continuous uptime. The card house has survived intact through a substantial furniture rearrangement (in which nearly every furniture item was relocated to a different place in my apartment), frequent folding of large bed linens, and light breezes blowing through the open windows during the unseasonal heat wave in late February/early March. With such a lengthy uptime, my house of cards might as well have been made of bricks.
