Sea change...

[alexpgp]

I should probably start to keep track of (a) hours spent on health-related issues, and (b) hours spent keeping up with bureaucracy.

I managed to get an appointment today at a local oncology clinic that, according to reports on the Internet, is where one basically starts with cancer treatment and then, if things don't work out, one "graduates" to places like MD Anderson.

Me, I'm going in the opposite direction, at least for now.

I then spent some time setting up the machinery to turn my LLC into a company that pays an actual salary to employees (as opposed to revenue just becoming part of an ongoing draw). There are probably additional benefits to going this route, but the upshot of all of this is that I'm plumb tuckered out and have not managed to get a lick of translation work done all day.

I suspect, however, that laziness may have played a role.

* * *My ScanSnap scanner does great work when it comes to scanning documents, but having to stop after each document to change the default name given to the scan file (consisting basically of the date/time of the scan) is a pain.

Putting off renaming files is a pain, because if you open a file to take a look at the content so you can come up with a file name that makes sense, you have to wait until the file is closed again before you can rename it. (I had thought to copying the directory and then opening files in one directory and renaming the corresponding files in the other, but that approach is fraught with peril, methinks.)

It'd be nice to come up with a solution that doesn't involve much work. One idea I have is to retain the senseless names, but create a database that correlates said names to useful information (dates, times, names, keywords, etc.).

Back burner sort of stuff, for sure.

For now, I'm going to go join Galina in front of The Tube.

Hope y'all are having a good Friday night! :^)

Comments

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

What kind of documents do you keep digital copies of? And is it just for your own archive or needed somewhere else?

I've submitted documents for a special presidential stipend back in October, and the process was a pain: fill in a lot of online forms, print them out, have them signed at college and myself, scan the signed papers and load them back into the online system.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

You have made me think of doing the same, at least with all of our passports. Printing out an existing file could be easier than copying all of the pages every time a copy is needed...

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Makes sense.

Cheers...

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I scan pretty much everything that may be needed again in the future.

Some of it will be used (things such as receipts, etc. for when I do my taxes). Of this group, the trick is to determine which, of the physical documents, can be shredded and which must be kept.

I realize that a significant chunk of my scans are done to scratch the "just in case" itch, e.g., scanning an interesting article from a newspaper that, in all honesty, I will probably never refer to again.

So the answer is, the scanned documents serve both purposes.

Cheers...