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  • 20110331-Papers Away

    I went to bed late last night at 1:30am and am still feel groggy from lack of sleep. After scanning and archiving over 500 pages last night, I’m still NOT done with my Lenten Season project! And today is the last day of my personal push for completion.

    I don’t feel like “verifying” the count of each scanned item. The thick file is stacked up on my desk! It’s a nightmare to imagine the waste of time AND paper (formerly known as trees), just for printed material. That’s why I prefer electronically recorded images: The digital version reduces the “paper monster”.

    During my project, I creatEd five new folders labeled Various: news, discoveries, taxes, accounting and legal. I may merge the informational with the other five new folders but this folder contains coupons, discounts, advertisement, plane tickets, placement cards, etc.

    And those were scanned in COLOR! That’s right! I even scan thicker papers in color! NeatWork Quick Scanner really works! Just make sure the paper is thin enough to feed through the rollers. The thinner paper, like carbon copies, can jam up because the sticky rollers are truly “quick”.

    The last “major” paper works are the hard copies of the Yahoo! Messenger. But since TPTB don’t want to touch it, I’m left to scan these colored text and archive it with the rest. I plan to just dump all these crap without shredding. Perhaps, I could rubberband the stack in case someone gets curious. As usual, Thursday is Paw’s “Trash Can Night” for Friday’s “Pick-Up”.

  • 20110330-Papers Away

    I’ve scanned and archived one more batch of the “JAHBULON” files of woe. However, I don’t need to shred those as of yet because they are still “Deferred” for what it’s worth.

    The remaining documents are too faded to scan with the NeatWorks. But it is with some glimmer of hope that my big CANON could possibly acquire minute details: That will help finish up the major task of my Lenten Season project.

    There are still my BIGGER files of “discoveries” that I will take a look at. Again, those are still “Deferred” for what it’s worth.

    I am sure as hell that most of the already scanned items uploaded, say last year and around this time, will have already been “looked” at since Obama visited the Bay Area not too long ago.

  • 20110328-Papers Away

    Tonight, I was VERY sluggish for whatever reason. Earlier today from 2:00pm to 3:00pm, I slept at my desk again! I believe the organic milk from cow really relaxed my system or that the milk sugars and high carbohydrate intake of white rice during lunch overloaded my system.

    But I had forced myself to complete a smaller batch of paper work, which included old receipts, which are supposed to be “business expenses” but deferred for the most part after ten slong years. Those will be shredded in the morning hopefully, if I wake up with enough energy from sleeping so late at night.

    The one booger of “westernized onion” really smelled and I didn’t dare touch that file. I looked through the damn pile, riffed through the pages many times and really hated it or him: “Jahbulon“, who was quite poetic but nonetheless operated as one of the alphabet soup agency and via TPTB overseas.

  • 20110327-Papers Away

    On Saturday I’ve done more receipts and documents related to automotive. I even showed Maw an old long contract for financing my car. After coming home around 2:30pm from a short outing on Sunday, I’ve continued my Lenten Season project of reducing the “paper monster”.

    Old credit reports were done that day. After that batch was done, I couldn’t figure out another stinky, smelling batch of “westernized onions”, the one and only booger that stopped me from “helping” some “fellow brothers”.

    My brain stopped because the remaining papers are informational only, such as tax, legal and accounting theories and forms and other colorful pamphlets, brochures, booklets and reading materials.

    I don’t know if I could shred notes and cards of “gratitude” and “thanks”. This would include cards from birthdays, by the way. Such is the sweet memories which I cannot part.

  • 20110327-Papers Away

    Wee! I’m almost done with my Lenten Season project of scanning, archiving and shredding my precious papers (made by once beautiful trees, of course). My goal is reduce the “paper monsters” that do not appear online electronically. With my new “Orgone Nano Shield in OtterBox” by Shrimpsei buzzing away with its rechargeable battery on my desk, I’ve finished all “accounts”, except one booger, which was closed for “security reason”.

    Anyway, my current cellphone bill was the LARGEST. I don’t know why I didn’t sign up for online statements long ago. I guess I wanted “proof” of my “calls”. It took me a couple of days to finish the cellphone bills because I couldn’t locate ONE missing document. I kept riffing through the pages but kept coming up short by ONE!

    My NeatWorks Scanner kept crashing because I would “File Now” faster than the application was able to handle. But the re-indexing works wonderfully and the files are intact.

    The best way to handle such large files is to split each batch to around one hundred pages or so. The NeatWorks cannot export no more than one hundred images to one batch of .pdf file at a time. That means ONE document scanned with double sides counts as TWO exportable images.

    The names I use to differentiate each one is simple: use unique names followed by dashes and then the year or other further description words. Keep the naming as short as possible to one to two words in between dashes (or underscores for the true nerds). For example: Booger-2011; Booger-2011-Various; Booger Rags-2011; and Booger Rags-2011-Various. Notice it’s the “proper noun” followed by the year and then the extra information.

    Within each “Document Type” of “Receipts” and “Documents”, I have a folder for each one labeled as: “VARIOUS-UNFILED”. This means I really don’t know WTF to put these files or that I’m too lazy to create its separate folder because it’s too small or that I will come back to it later on to find homes for these records. For those who worked with the Accounts Payable Department (like moi, of course), if there is only ONE record, it goes in a “various” or “other” folder and is placed in the back of its alphabet. If the record is humongous, then create a folder or more sub-folders for easier and faster access.

    For my personal computer, I have two folders: “Archives” and “Documents”. For the “Archives”, those are .nwbak files which I do NOT access frequently. For the “Documents”, those .nwbak files are smaller and contain more current files, like my time sheets at this “temp job from hell”. In other words, I’d “Export Folder(s) to “Folder File (.nrf)” and dumpt those in the “Documents” folder to pull up later on.

    Tomorrow I’ll work on that “one booger” and then the rests are merely information, such as news articles, old discoveries of TPTB and yes those colorful pamphlets, brochures, booklets and VARIOUS crap for those with eyesight. It’s nonsense to keep what we cannot carry in TWO HAND CARRIES in case of evacuation during disasters.

    I don’t care if the well-paid monkey trolls attempt to piece together my shredded material because those are null and void and basically invalid in this lifetime! I may archive my chicken notes, too, if I have the time. There’s a FRIGGIN’ pile of “cubicle notes” inside a copper UFO-shaped, container inside the closet and a few more inside a plastic drawer! One might say, those are other “skeletons in the closet or drawer” that needs to be cleaned out. Hahaha!

  • 20110325-Papers Away

    Last night, I’ve scanned and archived OLD phone bills! That’s right! I kept those papers for many SLONG years. It used to be Pacific Bell, then SBC/Pacific Bell and then AT&T. There was the long distance MCI and three bills for pagers and cellphones. This morning those were shredded. The last batch is for my current cellphone. I don’t know why I needed to keep what I could have signed up online.

  • 20110323-Papers Away

    “They might think you are shredding government documents.” Maw had expressed for the past few weeks since I started my Lenten Season project, which is really spring cleaning. My goal is to get rid of EVERYTHING useless in the house. This means to leave the furnishings. The books, stuffed animal toys and small trinkets have got to go where they will be loved. When the twosome passes on, I could rent out the rooms for some income and keep from feeling creeped out and alone at home.

    So instead of finishing one account a day, I scanned and archived the documents of one SETTLED credit card account. Those had been shredded at night to free up this morning, thinking we’d wake up early and drive Maw to her bloodwork so she could eat breakfast in time for her medications. Those statements will be done tonight. Hopefully, I could finish three folders of old cell/phone bills, which are now available online. The rest are printed, informational material of mostly crap and may be thrown away.

  • 20110321-Papers Away

    Over the fine weekend of mostly rain, I’ve scanned three more closed accounts (and various documents, such as agreements, policies, letters and notices)— one major checking account of America and one major credit card company with three separate numbers with chasing arms. Some statements were already downloaded online.

    Archiving and shredding have been done around 8:00pm last night and I didn’t dare start another batch because I needed to catch up on my sleep.

    While trying to further separate the shredded papers, I noticed VERY fine dust floating as smoke near the top of the paper shredder. I thought my ShredMaster has overheated and thus smoked, which I didn’t smell.

    Right there, I knew I’d be sick because the smell of dusty old paper entered my nostrils, which I blew out later on to discover to be blue in color due to one active file have lots of blue ink on old statements.

    As of this morning, I feel congested in a run-down way — not infected but by fine particulates caught in mucoid linings that are currently being removed SLOWLY. I tried gargling and blowing my nose but to no avail.

  • 20110318-Papers Away

    Last night, I’ve completed two large batches of old statements. A third smaller batch was done, too. All three are closed accounts.

    It takes approximately 1.5 to 2 hours to complete one batch. One batch required color and double-sided. Because each colored image takes awhile to render and since my data entry speed is too fast for each item, I had to wait a few minutes until the process was completed and made use of my time by gathering the next batch of old statements.

    This morning from 8:15am to 8:35am, I shredded these papers even though I’d be late to leave at the same time my parents would for this morning’s mass. I couldn’t shred last night because the parakeets were already asleep downstairs. So I had to wait this morning to complete the daily task prior to the end of Lenten Season this month.

  • 20110317-Papers Away

    Last night, I’ve discovered more documents from three jobs located in Sunnyvale, Los Gatos, and Campbell. I had to split the Sunnyvale file in four ways because the software can only send 100 images into each .pdf batch.

    So last night, I scanned these decade old documents in colors of B/W or color and sides of single or double; verified each item count; and this morning shredded the nice certificates of outdated classes and letter heads with shiny gold colors.

    I stayed up until 2:00am to further split old records of customer receipts, packing slips, emails, sales/work orders and other informational material, which I hardly read. Again, smaller back-up files are easier to manage. Each file has been carefully archived and hopefully won’t be “compromised” by curious “onlookers”.

    That’s what I plan to do: Receive paperwork through regular mail, read quickly, scan and shred daily. Again, we can only take our souls to heaven. Each minute detail of each life has already been “written” in a personal “Book of Life” (and filed away as Akashic Records).

  • 20110316-Papers Away

    Last night, while verifying several times the number of scanned items to my carbonless check copies and receipts from the ATM machines and bank tellers, I remembered old records first my REAL job in accounting.

    So for the remainder of yesterday evening, I’ve scanned, coded and carefully archived old advices, forms, emails, agreements and other documents, which all have been shredded this morning.

    I still have one plastic bin of articles and one black bag of other paperwork to shred. At this point in time, “Group A” has failed me. And like my hatred of TPTB, I shall continue to shred allegorically speaking.

  • 20110314-Papers Away

    “What are you giving up during this Lenten season?” asked little Theresa the other day during our breaktime. “I’m shredding old papers.” I replied. But she expected me to give up something morally. Coming from a religious zealot, that’s hypocritical.

    My plan was giving up hoarding the “paper monsters” from over one decade. That’s why I had bought a NeatDesk Wcanner for documents, receipts and business cards last Monday. I wanted a feed scanner that didn’t take up space and something cute.

    The NeatWorks Scanner Software is excellent: It can scan four ways: in black and white or color and for one-sided or double-sided. For the receipts and business card, information from the old papers can be captured and pre-filled into common fields, such as dates, amounts, sales tax, emails, etc.

    So far, I’ve scanned and SHREDDED records of all business cards, employment, medical, automotive, online orders, charity and education. Next would be the friggin’ FADED credit card receipts: I have placed those in a purple-colored, plastic bin for later retrieval and more detailed scanning via my BULKY flat bed scanner and printer by Canon.

    And as for my net worth on useless “pieces of paper”, which have already been scanned ONE-BY-ONE and archived, I plan to scan those darn, hard work on paper both in color and double-side. These will NOT be shredded because they are PERMANENT documentations, which I have already admitted to possessing, say, last year.

    Paw came by my workstation before lunchtime was served. I showed him my new NeatDesk Scanner and old receipts from Moffett Field Exchange, of which the logo was printed in dark blue on the back of these recepts! Then I showed him the nice NeatDesk orange box from the closet. But he wasn’t too happy that I had kept all those papers and expressed his disapproval by the usual “clicking” noises with his tongue.

    I hope to complete this one time project by the end of Lenten Season. Of course, I expect Group A to finish as well. Going forward, I will scan and shred to my heart’s content until I go senile. Oh! What fun this will be!