Riley is my new dog, recently adopted. He spends the days while I am at work bravely guarding the house. After a couple weeks I decided I might want to check up on him so I installed a networked Video camera. Realizing riley loves sleeping on the couch when no one is there to tell him to get down I focused it on the couch. What I wound up with is the worlds most relaxing video feed. This dog spends his day in blissful relaxation. The office staff was convinced it was a picture and I was pulling there leg untill he adjusted himself.

So in part one I talked about starting the family archive and purchasing a scanner. In part two I want to give you all an update on my progress and lay out the first steps. I have performed some of the first steps the ones I have not completed will allow me to give you some insight into the many challenges of such a massive project.

The process of building a family archive is three fold Collect, Protect and Digitize.

So a lot of us walk around our various work places and there is sure to be some cheesy motivational poster. Whether it’s a simple go team or one of the litany of "successories" they are there and for 99% of us they are meaningless. If we where easily motivated by a poster, beer would never have been brought into existence.

I went at organizing the paint cans in the garage. By pouring the left over gallons into quart cans I saved a lot of space
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I have been struggling to get going with the In Box Zero http://www.43folders.com/izero/ Concept from 43 folders. This collided with a marathon run of house cleaning last weekend. One of the major problems in my house is the never ending piles of mail that keep piling up all over the main room, dining table and kitchen counter. Mail gets dropped and grows. No one wants to deal with it we just empty the box and let it pile up. I was going nuts because it finally dawned on me. I no longer control the downstairs of my house. It’s being decorated by Big Corporations trying to get me to buy stuff, or do other things. Whether it’s a bill, coupon, bank statement or the never-ending piles of offers and flyers it’s growing in a massive fashion.