Monday, July 8, 2024

A few days ago I decided to update my daily task list with a number of things that I had removed from rotation after my diagnosis. I have barely been keeping up with the “regular” tasks that come up each day but I felt it was time to get back to some regular divesting. The first task from this old list was to “Clean a Drawer”.

I chose to clean out behind one of the doors in the cabinet I have in my sewing room. The cabinet holds mostly extra office stuff – pens, tape, notepads, and such. I hardly ever go into the cupboard; it contains mostly computer-related items. I weeded out a number of manuals for things I no longer have and then started looking to identify the various cords on the shelves. I kept most of them for the simple reason that I had no idea what they were (or are) for. There were a few software programs that I haven’t run since I switched to the Mac so why I kept them is a mystery.

I also found seven CD’s full of photos ranging back as far as 2005. I know that because there were baby photos of Will and Dylan. I don’t have a CD player on my computer but my laptop does. When I plugged one of the discs into it nothing came up. Thanks to a pair of needle-nosed tweezers I was able to get the CD out.

We have a portable CD-Rom player so I attached it to the Mac with the intention of moving the photos I wanted to keep into my Photos app. So far I have dealt with two of the CD’s so there is still lots to do. I’m enjoying looking through the old photos again; most of them are when the grandkids were small.

There were a few things that went to the garbage, a few things that will be sent to the thrift store and a few things that Pat is going to try his luck at selling. The cupboard is much cleaner now but my desk and work table still have a few things that need to be sorted.

If I load all the photos onto my computer, have I really reduced anything?