CLEAN-UP DONE

I did some much needed clean up of my home office over the last few days. Some files needed to be trashed, some papers needed to be filed, some documents needed to be scanned, and some letters needed to be written. It took a while but I pretty cleaned up most everything.

I still have more books than bookshelves, and I did manage to toss some old magazines. I used to keep them all but have now reduced the volume of volumes I keep. I keep all copies of my Naval Institute Proceedings and Naval History. I also keep all of the Joint Forces Quarterly, The American Interest, and Foreign Policy. I don’t why, these are all, for the most part, readily available on-line or at the library, but I just can’t break old habits.

Keeping old copies can also come in handy. I have saved all the copies of the MSU College of Engineering Newsletter from as far back as anyone can remember. A few weeks ago we decided to frame the covers of the newsletters and hang them on the wall in McCain Engineering. Of course no one could find all of the copies so I came to the rescue. A fair number of the covers hanging in McCain are scans of the copies I kept.