It’s amazing that in the absence of actual work, I still manage to find ways to keep myself busy. Aside from the massive undertaking of digitizing my file cabinet, I’ve also been spending the past week converting my few remaining VHS cassettes into DVD format and optimizing the JPEG compression of all my digital photos. I’m also finding new ways to organize the documents on my hard drive, as well as the drawers and shelves in my apartment, even to the extent of folding our extra plastic grocery bags into neat origami triangles. Fortunately, the great weather gave me plenty of opportunities to escape the confines of my apartment (where my obsessive-compulsiveness is roaming wildly). Just beware of wearing bright colors when going out – my bright orange T-shirt apparently made me look like a huge flower on the tennis court the other day as I got chased around by a fat bee.