Box #2 Pencils, Staplers and Floppy Disks

Box #2...trash, thrash, all trash.  Keeping a few handy screw drivers, a couple key rings...really shouldn't bother with those...a couple pieces of broken things, who knows they might still be fixable with super glue.  It's the convergence of time, glue and pieces that's hard to come by. Keeping a small tin full of girls school pictures. And for the throwing away, if software comes on a floppy disk it's not worth even thinking about.  That made this an easy box.  I paused for a minute thinking about whether to throw away the hinged box that the disks were stored in, but I'm in the mood so off to recycling it went.  Then there was a index card box with alpha dividers.  I saved all my old drivers licenses, membership cards in historical societies, hospital patient ID cards...everybody wants to put a piece of plastic in your wallet.  Times have changed a lot in ten years.  And then there were the address pages from my 1999 Franklin Planner.  I read through all the names...many, most of people that I knew through work.  Strange to see how people who were once important enough to get a note in my address list have been forgotten so completely.  Makes me wonder about my present day work relationships...which seem important now.  Wonder what I can do differently to be sure that while they are in my life that I mindful of how short our time together will be. Every minute is of consequence.  And the rest of this STUFF...it is not of consequence.  Thanks Laurel, on to box three tomorrow.