Productive Day (and the experiment continues)

I said that I was going to start on the file cabinets today, and I did. I went through the files and papers and general stuff that had been shoved in to get it out of the way for two file drawers.

File drawer #1 -- Before:

And after:

File drawer #2 -- Before:

And after:

The first drawer now has files related to family stuff -- insurance, things we have done to this house, appliances, animals, and so on. The second drawer currently holds Jewish stuff of one kind or another.

What, you may ask, happened to all the rest of the papers and things in those drawers. Well, obviously, much of it was stuff we simply do not need to take with us when we leave Dodge -- like all kinds of brochures and papers about things to do in and around Dodge. So lots of stuff is now in the recycling bag. A much smaller pile is waiting to be shredded. A few things pertain to the youth group at our synagogue and will be returned to them. And so on.

But here was the prize of the day -- an item that I think the family will hold onto for a long time. (And that our children will probably fight over one of these days when we are no longer around to smack them upside the head and tell them "stop hitting your brother!")

That, my friends, is a ticket to a Red Sox game during the 2004 season -- the season in which the Sox won the World Series after an 86-year drought. We had already moved to Dodge by 2004, but we went back to Boston that fall to attend Noreascon 4 -- the World Science Fiction Convention. And since Fenway Park was just a short walk from the hotel, the Wizard managed to get us tickets to a game.

Interestingly enough, there were film crews at the game we attended filming crowd scenes for the movie Fever Pitch. We are almost certainly not visible in any of those scenes, however, because the seats that the Wizard managed to obtain were behind a pole. Not that we cared. We were in Fenway!

Okay, moving on now.

As well as decrapifying two drawers in the downstairs file cabinet (there are two more entire file cabinets upstairs, folks), I managed to do some knitting on the smaller of the two Wallabys I am working on. I am almost to the point where I can join the sleeves to the body:

If all goes well tomorrow (it is supposed to snow again!), I will finish that sleeve and start on the yoke of the sweater.

Last but not least -- Day #9 of the Great Experiment, Monday, December 7, 2009:

Again, I chose to photograph the futon couch, because that's where the most things are happening. Or, in some cases, not happening.