This is Stevea Robbins.

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Backlogged files just kind of creep up on you.

Not literally, of course.

I mean, they don't grow little backlog legs and sneak into the kitchen and grab little

backlog knives and then prepare to attack you when you're not looking.

That doesn't happen ever.

But they do just sit there and quietly multiply when you're not looking.

Europa has discovered that single-handedly running the economy of the entire eastern block

generates a lot of paperwork.

Once the paperwork is served as purpose, it gets filed.

At this point, Europa's filing cabinets fill her office and are spilling over into the hallway.

When she wants to get the latest inventory report for the plant store, she has to wait

through dozens of files on the world aridium market, her secret ownership of the world's entire

production of incandescent light bulbs, and several other eye topics before she can get to inventory.

She's at the point of pulling her hair out, and who can blame her? At this point, she has every

single file from the last 20 years saved up somewhere in her maze

of filing cabinets.

If you want to keep your filing sane, and this applies to paper files or electronic files,

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