My sister upgraded her printer recently so she dropped her old but still functional scanner/printer here. I used it recently to scan paperwork that I’ve honestly haven’t looked at in over 10 years. Lucky for me, the stacks were all single sided so the scanning was long and tedious but I didn’t have to mess around too much in Acrobat to put the pages in the correct order.
The stack above got about 50% bigger by the time I ended the scanning session. Surprisingly, the files weren’t that big. I thought the files would fill up a CD but it’s only about 30MB. (Adobe Acrobat decided to cooperate and work in Windows Vista, something it’s been resisting for the last 9 months so that was a nice surprise.)
So during the scanning, I also cleared out some old stuff and I had to laugh when I found this.
This is an old award from my pre-elementary days and I laughed because I could clearly see my graffiti handiwork on the bottom. I was quite the graffiti artist as a youngster so I made marks all over walls and clearly, I thought awards were meant to be marked on.
And this is my handiwork about 5 years later. I have no idea why I saved this but I do remember making this with the red ink from a red felt pen and thought I did a great job of mimicking blood drops/splatter. If only my parents encouraged my love of graffiti, I would probably be a graffiti artist now.