clear out my inbox

a man who wakes up in a grave, as quickly as you try to dig upwards they keep throwing spadefuls of dirt on top of you

at work, i am sure this is probably a bad thing but i plan to only use it to get rid of the huge aoutn of crap and then once its clear i can go from there

hope to get it a lot lower this week

well it hit 80 and is now back up to 130 – bad couple of days

slow but sure.

...I’m making real progress this week.

Ugh.

Hmm. Yesterday there were 504 messages in my inbox. This morning, there are 546. How did that happen?

Yesterday, I replied to 7 emails. That’s a long way from 504, but most of those 504 are not that important. I think I answered the most important 7. One was from a professor at Indiana University, and two were from people interested in the new web project.

Happily, the main reason I’m finding it difficult to get to all the email is because I’m spending nearly all my time pair-programming on the web project.

This is getting ridiculous. There are now 504 messages in my inbox. Some of them are important: from people interested in my new web-site project.

I read in a biography of Robert Moses that he always responded to correspondence on the day it came even, working as late as necessary to get it all done. This way, it never accumulated.

I’m no Robert Moses, but putting everything on hold and clearing out my inbox once sounds like a good idea right now.