Before you get bogged down in the labyrinth of my mind, there’s a bottom line to all this and this is what it is:

The only part that really matters is that your MRIN’s match up with your document numbering, and your Master Source ID numbers match up with your Master Source documents. That’s it. The rest is optional.

OK, onward into the labyrinth:

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The day I lost 10 years of detailed personal journals when both backup CD’s cracked through the middle, one after the other in quick succession, I decided there’s no such thing as too many backups. I had spent months digitizing box loads of old paper and I thought the chance of losing both CD copies at the same time (without a catastrophic natural event out of my control) was about one in a trillion, but it happened anyway!

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