Heaps of paper
Maybe I will be considered a contemporary of the Brontosaurus Rex but there always seems to be a pile of paper around my computer.
The computer is supposed to reduce the need for paper, for rows of filing cabinets full of indexed bits of information that might prove useful some day.
Perhaps it is long established habit that makes it necessary to see information on paper before one is prepared to concede that it is factual.
There is the impression, sometimes misplaced, that when someone prints a statement on paper extra effort has gone into research. So when the computer inputting is finished and corrected, I turn on the printer and look at the same material on paper. Whoops, now how did that creep through?
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After the correction is made the paper printout containing the error has to be dealt with.
It is carefully cut into strips and stapled together to make a note pad for the telephone.
However, when paper use goes beyond substantial to caboodle, the pile of note pads towers over me and threatens to collapse.
Five years ago I acquired a two-drawer filing cabinet to file correspondence, reference material and mementos.
As with nature, which abhors a vacuum, I seem to have a thing about an empty filing cabinet.
This is the most un-empty filing cabinet you ever saw.
Some day the metal frame is going to succumb to constant pressure and the whole thing will explode.
Perhaps we will observe the arrival of 1997 by trundling a truckload of out-dated files down to the recycling bin at the end of the block.
If not the New Year may be welcomed in with a sonic boom.
