Isn’t life interesting?  What began as an early morning get-some-work-done-and-out-of-the-way kind of morning at 5 AM turned into a random flight of ideas type of experience.  See if you agree.

With coffee in hand, a half regular and half decaf blend that I concocted and made with my own two hands, I proceeded to my usual place of computer work where the Wi-Fi signal is the strongest, the phone connection is the weakest, the surroundings are the loneliest, and the temperature is usually the coldest.  It’s that place that we all call (wait for it), the basement.  It’s down there, (or should I refer to it as here) where I have a little room that I call my office.  It’s really more like a bomb shelter though; the walls are starkly bare without any hanging pictures, no posters, no mementos, no knick-knacks, no nothing.  The only thing on the walls is the usual knock-down texture covering the sheetrock and the paint covering that same texture.  There are no windows either; just a plain door that actually is functional that I ingress-egress through.  Three canned light fixtures and a ceiling vent complete the minimalism artistic design that I have embraced.

I have a desk with a few odds and ends scattered about including a pencil (without the eraser of course), a couple of pens (one with no cap), and a bluish college ruled binder to my right with 70 sheets of paper that informs me that it is designed with Perfect Edge® Micro Perforated For Clean Tear-Outs.  Who knew?  I’ve always struggled with perfect tear-outs, but apparently that will not be an issue any longer.

I notice that the binder is also imprinted with a Certified Sourcing label referencing that it is part of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and it includes a website address in such small font that without my 1.25x cheater-reader glasses that are now a permanent fixture on the bridge of my nose, I would not be able to see more than a blurry little linear something.  It looks kind of like this: www.sfiprogram.org, only smaller.  Note: I did go to that website before posting it and it is legit. It looks like they do a lot with renewable resources and the like; “green” kind of things.  Good stuff since I am from Oregon which is all about renewability and reforestation with its long logging history.  An American flag and a Made in USA statement stand out too.  I like it.

And one more thing about that binder: it states 1 SUBJECT in big bold print that dominates all of the other writing on the front cover.  What would happen if I let them know that I use it for multiple subjects?  Hmmm, I wonder and ponder; inquiring minds want to know.  I’m probably eating into their profit margin by not buying more binders, one for each subject in there.  That would be a lot more binders to stack on my singular desk in this near-empty room.  I do have a lot space in this room to put book shelves on the walls though.

Oh, but wait!  Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and the good and well-intentioned people there?  Life is too complex!  I better get back to what I was supposed to doing.  Now, if I could only remember what that was.

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