Never Has a Scanner Been So Useful
The tax documents just keep coming in the mail (and I’m going to get another batch sent to me from Dallas once my dad is pretty sure that all of them have arrived there), but with the document feeder on my printer/scanner/copier(/fax, but I don’t use that part), scanning them into my computer isn’t nearly the effort that it would otherwise be. In fact, if I didn’t have the document feeder, I’d likely just give up on the whole scanning push since it would be too painful to do. I remember having to scan in all the pages of our house contracts for my parents page after page after page after page by hand, and I think I was happy to finally move just because it meant I was free of that job. The one downside to my printer is that it only scans one side at a time (not duplex), so if I have anything two-sided, I have to do some merging by hand. Still, a small price to pay for the convenience.
My next near-term project is getting a slightly better system set up for my backups (especially offsite) as having my WHS as my central storage for everything does no good if it dies. I do have my 1 TB external drive that I’m likely to set up soon (once I’m sure that I don’t need any of the non-restored files from it, or I back those up to the WHS also), but then maybe I’ll look into Amazon S3? I mean, I don’t have anything that would be an absolutely devastating loss in a catastrophe (and it isn’t like I need S3 for remote access either), but backups really are the one area that I could stand to have a little bit of improvement in my technology ecosystem.