Remembering The Past

I just bought a $400 document scanner from Amazon and I’m in the process of scanning years of paper receipts, statements, and whatever into PDF documents. Hopefully I can remove some of the clutter on my desks.

In going through the many piles of paper, I found some old travel receipts, including stuff from a trip to Singapore/Hong Kong/Taipei during the summer of 2005. Fifteen years ago! I was taking vacation to go to Hong Kong and Taipei with then ex-wife and family so my boss at work said to stop by the Singapore office and they company will pay for my business class flight. It was my first long-distance business class flight and it was awesome. Originally I booked the flight on Singapore Airlines but our corporate travel office screwed up payment and my flights were cancelled a week before departure. I scrambled and managed to get Transpacific flights with EVA Air and Cathay Pacific which were pretty nice as well.

This was when I was still married and it was our last big trip. Later that year, my ex-wife filed for divorce and it was finalized during the summer of 2006. I hate finding things from the past since I always look at the date and wish I was still back at that time and wondering what if. This was when there was no hint of kidney disease and just the beginning of diabetes so I could have done a lot to save myself from the situation I’m in now. Or not since I was a lazy idiot and would have done exactly the same.

I’m gong to shred all this old stuff and not even scan it!