A Bio in Business Cards

I freely admit to being a packrat. My attic (thank god I have an attic) is packed with crap, from old electronics to clothes, to old bills and cancelled checks, to models I will probably never get around to building.

One little thing I have saved is my business cards from just about every job I've had. I didn't get a card when I was a Library Asst. at U.Va. (come to think of it, I don't think anyone had cards) but I sure had some interesting jobs. For several months I was the acting bibliographer at the Science & Technology library, because they couldn't fill the position, and someone had to order new books. Frankly I thought I did a better job than the real bibliographer they got, who kept ordering cookbooks because his wife (who wore the pants in that relationship) liked to look at them. Cookbooks in a Sci-Tech library? I ordered a lot of astronomy, physics, and technology books. I was also assistant to the bibliographer at the Art and Architecture library... ah good times. Anyway, here's a list of the cards I do have:

• Art Director/Production Manager (ICE, where I was also an editor/designer/network guy [anyone remember LocalTalk? I set up the one at ICE with those phone wires], though no cards for those)
  
• Senior Designer (my first job in DC)
  
• Technical Manager (Service Bureau)
  
• IT Manager (Printer)
  
• Digital Manager (Repro firm who bought the printer)
  
• Rocket Scientist (The Mac consulting place; the owner had a sense of humor on paper at least)
  
• Technical Manager (another repro firm)
  
• ??? (the new place)
  

Anyway, back to my clutter. I was thinking it was time to finally get rid of the cancelled checks and credit card statements from, oh, 11+ years ago, and thinking that it would take forever to shred them all (and probably burn out my shredder), then I though.... Hmmm... I have a fireplace...

First cold day of the fall and it's a purging party!