Tigger
Recycles dryer sheets
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We should start an ER spreadsheet thread.
One can never get enough Excel . A fragment of a recent market timing graph:
Oooh. Very sexy. I'm all for an "Excel Fetish" thread.
We should start an ER spreadsheet thread.
One can never get enough Excel . A fragment of a recent market timing graph:
Sounds like there are others like us out there. Meow- most of my planning is future or financial oriented. Don't worry much about "old stuff" like pictures or e-mails. Maybe I should.
Danmar...sounds like you are a "data" and a "detail" person. So am I to a certain extent..so I can understand. Still...you have way more data than I do!Our friends think we are nuts but we both love this stuff. What do you guys think? Maybe too much? But can't imagine doing it otherwise.
Danmar...sounds like you are a "data" and a "detail" person. So am I to a certain extent..so I can understand. Still...you have way more data than I do!
Well, the emails take almost no time to maintain. Basically it just requires not deleting them. I don't need to go back to them often but sometimes I'm asked something or have to provide documentation of something and the email is where it is or that is the easy way to find it. Saves a lot of time.
On the pictures, I guess that is past oriented. I do enjoy looking at them. I have my wallpaper on my computer set to periodically switch to a random photo. We've ended up having a lot of discussions about past trips or events or people when someone comes in my study as a picture changes. The main thing I've done though is send them all off to be scanned in so I don't have to deal with paper.
It's interesting that your boss was very happy. Makes me feel better about my very modest obsessions -- like logging my run miles in a calendar. I'm happy too....(snip)...
Never had children. I guess that would have interferred. And his wife had numerous boyfriends (not sure he kept statistics on that).
All in all, one of the happiest people I have ever known.
I think it truly is "whatever floats your boat".
This boss seemed perfectly normal to me and seemed like a normal engineer.
Being serious for the moment, I've been an engineer all my working life and never met anyone quite like you described. Not even anyone close to this. This guy sounds like a very abnormal engineer.Maybe the image I've portrayed of my boss was harsh but calling him an abnormal engineer would be an untruth.
I can confirm that I never saw him wearing a pocket protector in person, only in old company photographs.
Our friends think we are nuts but we both love this stuff. What do you guys think? Maybe too much? But can't imagine doing it otherwise.
I can imagine that she needed them really seriously.And his wife had numerous boyfriends (not sure he kept statistics on that).
Hey, if it works for you that is all that matters but are you really living your lives or recording them?
My wife used to be like that but I have managed to partially cure her over the years. She still breaks out in a sweat when I suggest impromptu things like hopping in the car and driving to Cincinnati for the weekend at the last minute.
Thanks for the replies. I was wondering if we were really that far off the norm? What others think isn't that important to us for something like this but I am always surprised how unplanned/unprepared some of our friends and relatives are.
My perspective may be a bit burned out right now, having spent the last week going through my father's files, but I guess it depends on what you're doing with it.I think it's mostly planning not recording.
I chuck the support documents, receipts,etc. But the amount of paper in the actual tax return document is pretty small. So keeping even 30 years of fed + state returns shouldn't be a burden. Personally, I'd prefer paper over PDF's....(snip)...
So now I think I'm going to start throwing away tax returns older than 10 years, or at least scanning them to a PDF.
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Cincinnati? I think I understand her sweatiness.She still breaks out in a sweat when I suggest impromptu things like hopping in the car and driving to Cincinnati for the weekend at the last minute.
He controlled what he could; those things he could not (e.g. wife) was probably causing a part of his "problem"...He did similar things with food consumption (precise times, precise portions, calories, etc).
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Never had children. I guess that would have interferred. And his wife had numerous boyfriends (not sure he kept statistics on that).
Sounds familiar, what was your father's name?At this moment, I don't know where my house keys are, I have no idea what I spent today, nor yesterday, the temperature at the airport doesn't interest me at all and no plans for tomorrow. I feel happy though.