On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, Don Silva has a Caesar salad for lunch. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, it’s a sandwich.
But Silva doesn’t usually know what kind of sandwich Ann, his wife of 42 years, has whipped up for him until he unzips his blue and silver lunchbox at a table in the fifth-floor lunch room of Anderson, Zeigler, a Santa Rosa law firm where he works.
Silva, 86, and his office, are a picture of order.
His office, east-facing with a window that shows the mountains that border Rincon Valley, has a brand new 32-inch computer monitor, a scanning machine and a cart with cardboard boxes.
In the corner are the boxes filled with documents Silva has successfully scanned. When those are gone, more boxes are carted in.
His job? Scan and digitize every piece of paper in every box and label his work. He’s been hired to help the decades-old law firm go digital.
And he loves it.
At an age when some folks are eyeing their next vacation or scheduling a round of golf, or heaven forbid, battling health issues, Silva is readying himself for his nearly eight-hour work day, five days a week.
“I have a great work ethic,” Silva said Tuesday morning from his office. “I love to work. I want to be a productive member of society.”
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