First: I hate headaches. I’ve been fighting one all day: a total of 4 Excedrin this morning, a Benedryl, and a T3 hasn’t yet knocked it down. Arrrgh. Perhaps a night’s sleep will help.
I’ve begun going through my dad’s office. He was a worse packrat than I thought! So far, I’ve gone through about a 3′ section on one wall. I’ve uncovered 5 heavy duty three-hole punches, 6 B-8 staplers, 4 one-hole punches, 8 stamp pads, about a gazillion pens, about 20 erasers, and about 40 CDs. Just looking around, I see about 6 portable cassette or mini-cassette recorders, about 8 magnifying glasses, multiple calculators, multiple letter openers, etc. He has well over 300 cassettes, about 200 photo albums, and could open up an office supply store with his closet. What I want to do is leave my stepmother with a functional office with functional files and a functional filing system, and all the requisite paperwork on insurance in. It’s going to take a while.
I have gotten some case files to simplify filing paid bills, and a simple network router to provide additional protection for their computer (and to make it so I can plug in my laptop).
I think I have my work cut out for me.
