This week we\u2019ve been travelling away from home so I havn\u2019t been able to complete work on the physical household files. Instead, I\u2019ve been using my periods of free time to go through the household files on my laptop. And what a tedious business it is. At least with paper files you can use your hands and arms to pick up papers and move them around; you can turn your neck to look at papers here and over there; and you can completely change your position to get comfy. But with a screen you\u2019re locked-in with eyes fixed, head in one place, and body stationary staring at an unending stream of similar looking files. Anyway, I\u2018ve nearly finished now, and it\u2019s clear that, just as with paper files, it\u2019s easy for electronic files to just pile up over the years. The difference being that with paper files you can see individual folders expanding and no longer fitting into the physical space they are in; whereas with electronic files, its only when you start to run out of space on the entire hard disk that you realise you have too much material to cope with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week we\u2019ve been travelling away from home so I havn\u2019t been able to complete work on the physical household files. Instead, I\u2019ve been using my periods of free time to go through the household files on my laptop. And … Continue reading