Paperless Office? Mine?

It's 3:33 in the morning, and I'm facing two see-through bins, an Ottoman, and an article my son Joathan sent me, "Everything Old Is New Again," which is about scanning our papers and photographs so we can do away with paper.  What I do, of course, is getting my photos on line and then print them out.  I work against the stystem of the "paperless office."  Single handedly, I destroy forests, but I cherish what I do with what I get through my destruction--the papers and pictures I can look at closely in the comfort of my living room as I lie back in my recliner.  I hate to read at the computer screen.

But on my to-do list is to spend an hour going through this stuff and either putting it in an appropriate place of throwing it out.  Right now I have two see-through bins, and my goal of rht day is to create one.

So here goes:  News cliping:  Oct. 27, 2010 "Warming called threat to glory of state's parks" by Kelly Zito, November 13, 2010 "Majority of students now Latino"
"Getting naked to board an airplane" from Nov. 18, 2010
"Opposition to trial keeps 9/11 planner in detention" by Kornblut and Finn in Washignton Post--about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and with that picture of him after his capture in Pakistan in 2003
"Terror trials" and "Islamic center set albaze after bomb plot arrest" from Nov. 29,2010
"Germans Seek Ban on Groups Espousing Islamic Principles" by David Drawford inteh Wall Street Journal--published in the Cambodia Daily, December 29, 2010 (when we were there)

I can't throw out the photos and cards that are in between these news clipping.

I see that in early January 2011, I have "Books to look into in 2011"

Finishing the Hat (which I finsihed between sessions of jury duty)
MaryAnn in Autumn (never read\Feast of the Ghost
While the Women Are Sleepling by Javier Marias (never read)
Cleopatra:  A Life by Stacy Schiff (Read and loved)
Holiday on Ice (Had already read but deserves many readings)
Growing Up Laughing by marlo Thomas (never read)

I'm getting sleepy, so I won't even proof-read until I finish.  It seems that this was my quick clean-up.  I put anything that happened to be on my desk or on the floor (sheet protectors, folders, etc.) in the bin.  Now I have only one.  To be continued