Remember

Remember when I wrote a blog post regularly? No? Fair, I was never really that regular at posting except for last October, but it's been a while...

As I was leaving work the other day, I started opening drawers in my office looking for something. I didn't really know what, but I felt like there was something I needed in one of them. There wasn't, but there were three things I found instead from sometime before the pandemic that seemed noteworthy

First, there was an empty bottle of aspirin. Aspirin used to be my pain killer of choice despite the available alternatives, so having some at work wasn't particularly strange, but why did I keep an empty bottle? At this point, the only pain killer that isn't contraindicated with my other medication is Tylenol, so I tossed the bottle in the trash.

Then, there was also a mostly empty bag of no name brand cough drops. At this point, I can't imagine going to work while I have a cold. While they insist that I come into the office most of the time, people who are experiencing symptoms can work from home, so I brought the bag home. I'm still hoping that I won't need it anytime soon. Between masking, distancing, and luck, I haven't had a cold in the last two years, so I'll probably be super miserable when I finally catch one.

Finally, there was a box of 3.5 inch floppy disks. I don't remember the last time I had a computer that had a floppy disk drive let alone actually used one. My previous work desktop would have been from 2014, so maybe it still had a drive, but I certainly haven't had one at home for a decade. I suppose I might have kept them for use in rare troubleshooting circumstances when a server had an issue, but these days the servers are almost all virtual so they don't even really have a fixed physical location let alone a slot where you could put a disk, so why do I have them? Still, I couldn't quite bring myself to part with them, so I put them back on the shelf and went home instead.