View From the Bushes

You know, it's amazing how little it takes before you're getting 500+ e-mails a day. (Admittedly that's spread over two accounts, but still). Much of this is spam (particularly on my work account), and most of the rest is mailing lists I belong to, but even given that, it's still a pain to wade through it every day. That assumes you don't miss a day. Once you start missing days, then you're really in trouble. That's one of the things I'm trying to catch up on with DireKobold, my e-mail. It looks like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but there's still a lot of stuff I've put off responding to. For example, my mailbox is crammed with "enhancement products" I want to send away for -- that right there is going to take several hours.

I just finished reading the book Holes, by Louis Sachar. I had already seen the movie and the book was delightful as well. I highly recommend both the book and the movie. Both take only about two hours to complete and it's two hours you won't regret. In addition to whatever else I might have gotten out of the book, I realized that I need to read more. I used to be this voracious reader, and in a sense I still am, but with everything else I have to deal with, reading for pleasure has almost disappeared. I say almost, there are occasional surges but what I would really like is to average about two books a month (or even a book a week, but there's no way I could keep that up). Ahh... if only I didn't have to work.

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