I need to work on that! how do you make it be so?

Dude, I don't know -- it never usually happens. I just lucked out today.

I have this one contractor that calls using either his cell or skype. And the connection SUCKS. I wish he'd just email me, but nooooo. I suspect it is his way of ensuring "facetime" considering he's in the middle of the country and under a new type of contract the higherups got pressured reluctantly into (doesn't require monthly site visits.) But GET A BETTER LINE. Sheesh.

And I can't imagine when it would be necessary for me to mix concrete, either. I can almost imagine needing to clean the rifle first

If I want concrete counters,I am guessing I will have to pour the concrete myself

Hey, is that Tasha Yar on Bones?

My habit of keeping a lot of my email is getting untenable. I mean, it's great to be able to go look stuff up, but it's also to the point where stuff is getting lost. It's just there is so much info coming at me with the new job, and I need to keep it, since it isn't in my head yet and now I have paper notes telling me where to find emails. It's kind of wrong.

Don't delete the email. Make folders.

We are back from Philadelphia. That article is so, so wrong.

Teddy is in the hospital resting comfortably, if somewhat grumpily. Tissue matching to find the best donor occurred this afternoon, and we should get the results tomorrow. The nurse is betting on a tiger-stripe named Rigatoni. Best guess is, the operation will happen Monday.

Had a grand F2F last night with Sox, d, and Mr. Sox at an Italian restaurant in South Philly. Wonderful food, wonderful conversation, and a shame that I was half asleep by the end of it after a 3+ hour drive followed by 5 more hours of having feline kidney transplant information thrown at us followed by an hour of trying to find a hotel, and then driving to it (with a wrong turn on the way).

Current plan is, I'll go back to Philadelphia on Sunday (while Hubs is away on business) to be with Teddy during and immediately after the operation. Hubs's sister is going to fly in to take care of Max and Marie, and (I hope) stay for a while to help with the adjustment period after everyone gets home.

Oh good luck, Fred! As someone facing possibly another weird cat-trick (radioactivate my cat's thyroid!) procedure, I know. If it does end up being that (and if she's hyperthyroid, it will be. Pilling her is an ordeal and the iodine treatment would be a cure, not a treatment,) the poor thing is going to hate being hospitalized. She's the stereotype of a cat who hates change. She's fearless and bitchy at home, and anywhere else? Terrified and bitchy. GREAT combo.

May you get good results and a nice new pet!

Don't delete the email. Make folders.

I HAVE folders and filters to the folders. 13 of them, 4 of immediate attention. It's kind of nuts.

Hmm - do you have a folder for stuff you probably won't need again, but there is a small chance you might? Cause you could move the stuff you would otherwise delete to that folder...

I say (with all due respect to TB, of course) screw the folders and delete every email you can possibly delete. And, most especially, have only one immediate attention folder, no matter what feels right to do with those messages after that.

eta: x-post with TB's second post about a "probably won't need this" folder. I can get behind that! (but give it an expiration date - if you haven't needed it in umpty months...?). What I don't love is the neverending inbox of "I must save every email I've ever gotten".

Other email-wrangling tips:

• if you have another app that handles it better, use that -- never, ever keep to-do's or calendar items or knowledge base stuff in email. Never, seriously ever, keep email just for the attachment. File the attachment or copy the relevant to the app that's designed for it, and delete.
• if it's already stored somewhere else, delete. This applies to anything that comes to you through a mailing list, ticket tracking app, or anything with 10 rounds of replies (if it's an FYI thing, keep only the last one with the whole history copied)
• if it's expired, delete. (This one is a big thing for me -- I'm good about deleting the things that say "I'll be in at 9 today", because those are in the top few screens when 9:00 rolls around -- the ones that say "this is my schedule for the next 10 days while I'm away" stick around for 6 months because they're too far below the fold to remember.)
• if a co-worker is offering food, GO GET IT NOW. It'll be gone before the next time I review email.