{"id":19700,"date":"2023-03-19T18:45:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19700"},"modified":"2023-03-19T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T01:45:52","slug":"first-pass-on-old-papers-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2023\/03\/19\/first-pass-on-old-papers-done\/","title":{"rendered":"First pass on old papers done"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>On the one hand, I\u2019m still feeling kinda generally grumpy.<\/p>\r\n<p>On the other hand, I\u2019m also feeling a little triumphant (grumphant?), because I have finished going through my boxes of old papers.<\/p>\r\n<p>Or at least I\u2019ve finished the first pass of doing that.<\/p>\r\n<p>I now have the following:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>One plastic bin full of papers to be filed in file folders and put away in filing cabinets. I\u2019ll dispose of some percentage of those as I go, but at least that bin no longer contains any unopened mail, nor anything in the other categories below.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A tallish stack of things to read, or at least glance at before disposing of. These are college alumni magazine issues, newspapers containing articles about people I\u2019m interested in, pamphlets, etc. Also a fair bit of sheet music (such as music for rounds); most of that will end up either in folders\/binders on a shelf, or recycled if I don\u2019t want it.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A shortish stack of instruction manuals and guides for all sorts of tools and devices and other objects. These will probably end up in the kitchen drawer where I keep such things.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A shortish stack of blank paper and stickers and folders and such (including a bunch of Girl Genius stuff) that I\u2019ll either use or put on my giveaway list.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A shortish stack of things that need my attention. This is the one that\u2019s the most time-sensitive, and also the one that I\u2019m most anxious about. But there\u2019s nothing here that\u2019s really <em>urgent<\/em>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>(There\u2019s a certain amount of overlap among some of those categories; in an effort to not get bogged down, I made a bunch of quick decisions that may not have been consistent with each other. That was fine, with the understanding that I\u2019ll be doing a second pass later.)<\/p>\r\n<p>\u2026There\u2019s also a bunch of recycling and some trash, but most of that has already been disposed of. There are also a few assorted non-paper items that I\u2019ll deal with in my non-paper-items giveaway pass whenever I get to that.<\/p>\r\n<p>I think I no longer have <em>any<\/em> old unopened mail, which may be a post-college first for me. (But it\u2019s possible there are still some stacks or boxes of paper that I just haven\u2019t noticed yet, especially in the garage. I\u2019m unlikely to even look at the boxes in the garage until I\u2019ve completely finished with all the current paper.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Anyway, there\u2019s still lots of work to be done here, but I am quite pleased to have finished the first pass. I\u2019ve done this kind of pass before, several times, but always got sidetracked before getting through everything, so this is a nice milestone.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19701,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700\/revisions\/19701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}