Find the chocolate chip cookies

photo: flickr/mrs magic

Yesterday, I scooped up a 4-inch thick file and walked it over to my desk. It was a file of recipes.  How appropriate, since we are going on a paper diet.

Excitedly, I grabbed my hubby. “Watch how fast and painless this is!” I said as I slid a stack of 36 pages into the scanner. “Go ahead, push the button,” I giggled. He didn’t even have to think about which button to press because there’s only one; it’s labeled SCAN and highlighted by an inviting blue light. He was amazed that the scanner sucked those pages through so quickly.

As if that wasn’t enough entertainment for him, I asked him to put my system to the test. “Pick a phrase, any phrase,” I insisted, handing him the pile of recipes we’d just scanned. He chose Creme de Menthe Chocolate Chip Cookies. OK, fine. I put “menthe” in the search box, and in the blink of an eye, the recipe rose to the top of my list of more than a thousand scanned documents. It went right to the page where that recipe was found and even highlighted the search word on my screen.

I told you this was going to be easy.