Paper Dragons Need Taming

 I'm going to change names and details and edit this later, if I decide it is worth it, but for now I think this is a great place to collect it as I write, instead of keeping it in random notebooks or loose leaf paper that inevitably collects dust, or becomes misplaced, as one of my biggest clutter issues is paper collections. Not blank paper, though there's that too, but papers from school and journals and letters, that are decades old, but I cannot destroy or discard. 

I have talked about this in my own mind, read book sections about it, discussed methods with the LLM chat bots, and listened to podcasts on the subject, but it comes down to both sentiment and wanting to be the keeper of personal historical records. You throw out useless garbage, and that's not what my collection is. The solution of course, is to digitize it all, both in OCR and photographic formats, so it can be easily accessed, organized, and kept safe. 

It's from a mostly pre-digital age, so it's mostly hand-drawn and written, though there are a handful of typed (on a manual typewriter we used to have when I was at home growing up), and printed (from college "computer" years) papers. But, even though the ones that were printed must have been written on a PC, at home or in the library, I know the original is only saved on a floppy 3.5 diskette somewhere, and is there a machine that can even read those anymore? So those too would need to be photographed, and digitized from their paper versions.

It's very complex, at least to me, and that's the biggest deterrent in even getting started on such a project, because it is a capital P Project akin to someone who has a big shoebox full of photos and wants to make a scrapbook complete with stickers and fancy papers and designer rubber stamps (or just digitize them).

Whew, that was a digression/tangent! Here's the next section of the story of (I guess I will keep calling them Rachael and Jasper ... or was it Jordan? Maybe it could be Jordan and Jasper? I am a fan of alliteration, even if it's just the same beginning sound in the names, and it could be fun to have a scene where the characters themselves play around with this...). Okay, thank you rubber duck, aka, Blogger. Jordan and Jasper it is (for now) and I won't edit the other post until, (unless), I stick with this set/coupling. I'm going to type it in its own post, but here are some fun pics of delicious It's-Its and the cat who is becoming more and more at home here every day since we asopted him. What a good boy!