Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Muttering on the Task of De-Cluttering

1:30 PM  a page on which I'd begun "A Day in the Life of a Would-be (But Will-Be?) Retiree" dated June 30 and about June 23.  Recycled.

1:31 PM  An invoice from CSAA telling me how much my Checking Account (capitalized because it's so important to them--a proper noun!) on July 19, 2014 because I enrolled in Automatic Payment.  Why, then, did they send me an envelope?

1:35  Amnesty International 
1:36 PM  AFT CFT mailing of June 21 saying that the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1469 (Bonta) to address the CalSTRS projected $74 billion unfunded liability--but with a warning.  Recycled, warning unread.

TIAA CREF quarterly retirement statement (Tea kettle wails in kitchen)  

1:40 PM  Vanguard statement --noted and put in Finances binder 
1:42 PM  Letters from Annie in French--to my Français binder to read again when I need to activate that part of my brain before View and Chew  

1:44 PM  Several sheets of my students grades (which I turned in, mind you, but wanted to have on record
1:46 PM  Still more in French including a picture of the French author ?David Foenkinos with a couple of members of our View and Chew group in Nice!

1:47 PM  A "Welcome to Dell pamphlet--ad Recycling
1:48 PM  An article Javier brought me, "Cuales son los beneficios de comer una manzana al día?"  Into the T-M binder!
1:49 PM  The "I HEART Brazil" sign we posed with in sympathy for the nation hosting the World Club and losing to Germany.

1:50 PM  Eric Swalwell's op-ed piece on Immigration and Border Myths, July 14.
1:51 PM  "Top U.S. spy ousted over espionage rift" in Germany, July 11, 2014
1:52 PM  Don Asmussen's Bad Reporter letting us know that the AWOL Sea Lions are away without leave because they've rented their pier spot to a startup tech company  
1:53 PM  "Garbage game" the SF Bay Guardian's cover story that I dumped before reading.  To my reading table in the living room!  
1:55 PM  "Right time for nighttime hikes" article by Tom Stienstra.  Recycling. 

1:56 PM The galleys of Skiddo in the English translation that Alex Capus sent me--Back in its own binder, not found (left in bookcase area where binder should be)
1:58 PM  Claremont Service oil change for $50.00 on July 9.  Auto file.  
2:00 PM  CalSTRS notice that I mis-typed the number of the account to which I'd like them to deposit  my pension.  Top of printer for other side.
2:01 Important Information Regarding My Water Service Line (which I looked into at the time)  Clip board for further investigation
2:02 PM  Print-out of my water question and answer from e-mail exchange--Clipboard
2:04 PM  Calendars to record e-mail from Club T-M
2:05 PM  "U.S. students rank in middle of 18 countries" on financial literacy--at the age of 15!  
2:06 PM  "Goodwill site to house city offices, residential units" with J.K. Dineen byline from July 10, 2014--for Annie, who gets her Paris fashions from Good Will.
2:07 PM  Cole Porter's "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" lyrics & and "I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua."  Back into my Complete Shakespeare volume from college--Hardin Craig, 1951/1961!
2:10 PM  Noam Chomsky's "The Sledgehammer Worldview" from July 7, 2014  I make a note of Anand Gopal's No Good Men among the Living:  America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes."  
2:14 PM  It's hard to put it in the recycling...But I do.  
2:16 PM  My To-do list for Efren--Clipboard
2:18 PM  "Article on Bay Area Playwrights Festival on Friday, July 27.  I'll put it in an envelope for the friends I'm going with to the Eureka Theatre to see Hick:  A Love Story tomorrow.
2:19 PM  "Writers without Borders" Zehra Noorbakhsh"  Same.

2:23 PM  Photos to bedroom 
2:23 PM  Stanford Hospital's Dept. of Neurology and Neurological Sciences assessment of your brother: You responded to this in detail to your sister and son and never got a response.  Did that message go out?  You check.  
2:26 PM  Put it into David binder.
2:28 PM  Pages of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder--to the Theatre Binder
2:29 PM  The envelope of a letter from the Frenchman you loved in Algeria--to the letter trunk.
2:31 PM  Some kind of green sheet from the SF Assessor-Recorder's Office clipboard


And so I've finished distributing about an inch of clutter.  Only about eight more feet to go.














































































































































































































































































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