Remember in the Before Times when the cashier at the grocery store would ask you if you preferred paper or plastic bags?
Now, of course, we all carry reusable bags (in California they rip out your fingernails if you show up bagless). Whole Foods will use an old fashioned paper bag with two handles and the bigger chain stores use only plastic if you show up without your own toting equipment.
It's the same with paper records. Everything is in the cloud. Everything, that is, except for TBG's information. He asks for a printed copy of everything anyone financial sends electronically. I no longer laugh. When we need something he knows just where it is, while I'm busy searching for the right folder, the right password, the damn machine to turn on and stop updating itself.
This morning he asked for some help. Apparently, a decade's worth of statements have begun to outgrow their drawer. He thinks he only needs a few years saved. Did I have any 3 ring binders that expanded?
When I told Amster this story later this morning, she reminded me that her office is now paperless and all those white binders I used to admire were now sitting, empty, in a cabinet. Everything is in the cloud....oh, but it's TBG.
And that is why Amazon's same day delivery service just provided the solution my delightfully Luddite of a husband wanted.
I don't trust the cloud and keep my info on mini-cards. Maybe it's my age. Rain
ReplyDeleteThat's just what he says.... it could be lost or captured.
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California no longer allows plastic bags to be used. We voted for a complete ban of plastic bags a few years ago, and finally, after 10 years of warning people it was coming, in January California will only use paper bags. I love it. But, oh, the grumbling. You would have thought it was a completely new concept. I keep saying, to all the grumblers, 'We voted for this, it's what we wanted." It's like the tax on a gallon of gas in California. People complain about how high our gas is. Yes, that's because we voted for the taxes on gas to keep our infrastructure updated. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteAs for paper copies...yes, I agree. I, too, print copies and request Terry to print copies of his information from Stanford. I like to sit in various places and ponder the words and ideas. I can do that with paper better than a computer screen.
ALL the medical stuff is printed out and considered at our leisure, without anything but the paper and our thoughts. It's much easier than reading pixels.
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