My wife and I have two small plastic containers with the letters we wrote each other when she was back in Florida and I was in Illinois.  We sat down one night to read through some and didn't get far.

My wife has EVERY email I ever sent her from the day we met to the day we got married.  I have her's as well.  Way easier to store bits.

I have all my parent's and grandparent's photo albums.  I'm scanning in the pictures to make it easier to share with the sibs.  Once scanned, then trashed.  I have way more room on my disk drive than in my house.  Considering taking pictures of the "treasures" that I'm keeping around then donating / trashing them.  I haven't gone that far yet, but it seems like a good thing.

When my mother passed away we cleaned out her house and it was amazing what she kept.  Old calendars from 20 years ago, phone books, teaching materials from when she was a special ed teacher many years ago, all kinds of other stuff.  Like an encyclopedia set from the 1970s.  Small jars of something that went solid.  Things full of memories, I'm sure.  Kind of sad.

That made me much more picky when we made our last move.  What to save, what to donate, what to trash.  We had our regular house, a vacation house (we got the vacation house fully furnished!), and a storage unit all to be compressed into one smaller house.  We set a limit of one moving truck for all our stuff including furniture.  Everything else OUT.  A couple of trucks of donations, a couple dumpsters of "who would want this?"  Actually felt pretty good to get rid of all that stuff.  Even after the move I'm ruthless in discarding old "treasures".  Like that chunk of wire that might be useful some day.  That hammer with a chipped handle.  A box of rocks that are kind of pretty.  Still slowly thinning the bins I couldn't decide on before the move. 

In the tiny, little minds of leftists, anything that doesn’t worship whatever bullshit their masters tell them they are all for, today, is racist.

The "You're a racist!" thing has been so overused that people are now saying "Yeah, so what?"  No longer is it a weapon that causes instant capitulation.  A word that was once useful in describing unacceptable behavior is now meaningless.

And the police are very willing customers for military arms and hardware. 

I'm so sorry!  Cancer truly sucks.  Both sisters, father, and wife, along with various friends and friend's family members have/had cancer in some form.  it's a truly terrible disease.  Prayers to your DIL.

I'm tired of endless proxy wars with the Sovet Union.

Agreed.  The simple solution is for Russia (and soon China) to stop getting them started.  But once started, what are we supposed to do?  Appeasement doesn't seem to work: Let's give them Ukraine and then they'll stop.  Let's give them Taiwan and then they'll stop.  Honestly, I don't know the solution.

And to continue the numbness... my surgeon warned me about numbness after my foot surgery.  It's numb around the scar, but the tip of my big toe is numb as well.  Kind of strange.

My blood clot was caused by a technician sticking an IV needle through a valve. Damn hand vein needle sticks.

Ow ow ow!  I hate those hand sticks.  Once in the emergency room they had a hard time finding a vein.  Tried to stick between my thumb and finger and hit a nerve.  Five years later and it's still numb there.  I truly appreciate medical professionals, but sometimes they miss.