Transcribing handwritten journal pages from the New Year 2002 sojourn. I scanned them months ago to make transcription easier. It was only 10 pages handwritten, which if I buckled down could be done in one night. But it's boring.

I have a shoebox full of greeting cards - 12+ years of birthdays and Christmases and party invitations. I'm not sure what to do with them. I suppose I should throw them away. In theory they should be reminders of happy times. In actuality, too many of them remind me of disappointment, loss and insecurity.