Duly noted

I don't have a regular desk upon which my computer and printer sit. Instead, I co-opted our first dining table, a sturdy little 40s number which was antiqued green when we bought it at a garage sale. The spouse stripped and refinished it over 30 years ago and it's worn its light oak finish ever since. It came (for the princely sum of $25) with 4 matching chairs which are scattered over the house doing duty as small tables or--egad!--chairs.

Atop this table is a quilter's cutting board or gauge, 24" x 36", which I really need to take into my sewing area. However, it ended up where it is because at the time of setting up my little neck of the woods, I needed a mouse pad and this was large and everything, including the desktop computer, fit so nicely on it. I now have a laptop and laziness (and the fact that I really don't even SEE this cutting pad any more) have kept me from moving it. And I think I'll need help lift and separate everything, but that's another topic.

Today's topic is all the little pieces of paper which clutter around. There's even a folded napkin with "bk idea" written on it and a cryptic message following that. I think I remember what it means. But all these little pieces of pseudo-post-its are scribbled on, marked out, and then turned over with more scribbling and Kay-hieroglyphics. At times, I am awash in 3 7/8" x 3 7/8" pieces of paper. (I know the measurements because I just held one down to the quilter's surface.)

I am in no danger of running out of paper. Therefore, I'm going to stop turning them on the back. It's gotten so that I don't know where I've been or what I've done. One side with scrawls and cross-outs and then it's to the trash!

As to the spam count, as soon as I complain and start counting, the volume drops off dramatically. (This is not a complaint.) From June 4-June 10, the most I've had on any one day is 4. I know that because I'm keeping track on a little piece of paper.

It's around here somewhere.