8/18: fairly clean slate

I was caught in a bit of a fit of purging mania in my school office this afternoon.  The mania feeling wasn't a good thing, but the result is a paired-down work-space.  I had been keeping things from 2000 that I hadn't looked at in over a decade.  I needed to clear away some of the pile-up of the past so I could maneuver in the present and even move into the future.