Delete me
I started a wee jobby today and now I’m not so sure it was a wise move.
I started clearing out my email accounts.
Now the Rambles account had around 12,000 mails in the inbox and I was tempted to just delete the lot of them but there are mails in there from such luminaries as Suzanne – aka Anna Raccoon – and Nisakiman and deleting them somehow seems like sacrilege? Maybe I’ll just keep one or two?
And then there is the mail from the publisher offering me a contract to write a book. Mails like that are as rare as hens’ teeth and again I am too sentimental for my own good. Mind you, that mail landed me with a ton of work that all basically came to nothing, and also a book that I’m not too proud of [though I see there are 22 copies of it still floating around the library system here though not locally, thank God!].
It’s only now, going through the mails that I realise how many mails I have received begging for a mention of their site which is usually something so fucking irrelevant to its normal content that I don’t know why they bother. Even more irritating are those that start reminding me of the reminder they sent reminding me to read their original fucking email. Do these twats ever read the message on my Contact page?
So far I am down to around 6,000 mails. I also keep coming across old conversations which are fun to read but very distracting.
I should be finished by March.
So what about the email I sent you asking for help getting the gold doubloons out of Nigeria? Are you still interested? Because, you know, the widow died, and all of that.
Oh sorry, I forgot to call you “Dear.”
Sorry! All mails with the word Nigeria in them have been deleted, along with all those from that fucking woman who keeps developing cancer and who wants me to have millions. Mind you, haven’t heard from her in a while. Maybe she finally died?
I’ve emailed you.
You did.
And I laughed.
Unfortunately I can’t repeat it here as it somewhat loses in translation.
I doubt there is enough whiskey for the task.
Good idea. I’ll spend the whole week reading stuff so. A good excuse.
You have just reminded me that I really need to do the same thing but just have been too lazy to do it. Unfortunately, I have 5 Gmail accounts (yes, once upon a time I used them all, each for a specific purpose) plus two other email accounts associated with our web host. All these accounts are stuffed into Thunderbird and are badly in need of a good hoeing out. I’ve also meant to weed out my no-longer-relevant Firefox bookmarks as well but that would probably take me until next winter.