Recently I am starting to wonder how much of a blessing as compared to a curse a scanner is in reality. Sure a scanner can allow one to scan in images and documents into the computer, but how much of the convince has become a burden. When I was reading a Sherlock Holmes short story the other day it struck me how one of the stories featured a man who was given a document to be copied by the next day from his employee. Which has me wondering if the real test of a document is if it is worth enough to be hand copied, or retyped to be worth scanning. As after all any subset of a document that is worth keeping is more of commonplace book material as compared to simply turning stacks of papers into directories of jpeg or pdf files.
Just finished reading Numbers tonight
Read So far in 2013
HISTORY
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
POETRY/WISDOM
Job
PROPHETS
Isaiah
GOSPELS
Matthew
EPISTLES
Acts
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Just a little blimp on the line from the extra food around my birthday. Not a big deal as long as I keep in mind that no one weight is important is is the direction in which the scatter plot line is heading is all that matters in the end.
Current Weight: 284.5 pounds
Lost This Week: -1.5 pounds
Total Lost: 7.5 pounds
Starting Weight: 292 pounds
This time I am taking a completely different approach as I am realizing that one of the root causes to having so much stuff on my desk is not the desk top but the drawers. A smooth working desk that is free of clutter has orderly drawers that hold the things that one needs to reasonably have easy access to at one’s desk. The problem arises when the drawers are filled up with random junk which ends up with the things that should be in the drawers ending up on the top of the desk all over the place on top of the desk. So today not only did I empty of virtually everything off my desk I also emptied out the top right drawer too and went through everything and purged a lot of things in the process.
95-97 3 tea canisters that were low quality and no longer used
98 stove top espresso maker which hasn’t been used in years given how my body handles tea much better than coffee
99-100 2 gift boxes that have been sitting on top of my bookshelf for the past 5+ years just in case I will ever be able to use them when gifting to others
Just realized that I forgot to mark off Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe when I read it earlier this year.
Just finished reading Isaiah
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HISTORY
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
POETRY/WISDOM
Job
PROPHETS
Isaiah
GOSPELS
Matthew
EPISTLES
Acts
Today my focus has been my Chrome bookmarks which have gotten out of control again. This time around I am going through them in sections and if the material has no value then it gets deleted. If it has value than depending upon what it is it either gets downloaded (if it is an image) or gets clipped and tagged to Evernote (if an article)and then the bookmark gets deleted. A future step will be to organize Evernote to further refine it down. That way the end goal is to have my bookmarks limited to pages that I visit frequently and some type of temp folder to hold links to things that I glanced over and had enough interest to go back and read when I have the time.
A bread machine cookbook since I no longer have a bread maker as it did not make good bread and a clipboard neither of which have been used for a few years.
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Do you own a chess set?
If so how many?
When was the last time you used any of your chess sets?
Yesterday I gave away an ESV Bible to somebody that was interested in looking into the translation as that was what was used at their church. It was also one of 4 ESV Bibles that I had and that particular one had not been used in a few years since I had replaced the traditional double column format with the newer single column paragraph format version for more natural reading patterns.
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Have you used Pinterest before? If so how often do you use or not use it?
Personally I signed up for an account after getting numerous invites from friends but stopped using it within a few days as I did not get it nor have the desire to learn how to use yet another potential time black hole.
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A new low!
Current Weight: 283 pounds
Lost This Week: 1 pounds
Total Lost: 9 pounds
Starting Weight: 292 pounds
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1 Did you ever try any of the non-alcoholic wine wines (not grape juice but wine that the alcohol has been removed)? If you didn’t would you have any interest in trying it?
2 If so what did you think of it?
By The River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept by Paulo Coelho
Amazing how much more I got out of this book than when I first read it a decade ago.
Just finished up reading Acts tonight.
Read So far in 2013
HISTORY
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
POETRY/WISDOM
Job
PROPHETS
GOSPELS
Matthew
EPISTLES
Acts
post random questions daily and see if anyone plays with me and answers them :) (read all 121 entries…)
Other than 43Things what was the last webpage that you visited?
