Before Google, people would call up libraries and ask things like, "What's the phone number and address of the Catholic Church in Rochester, MN?" and the librarians would find out for them. Nobody ever does that anymore.
Right. And Newspapers were a resource too. I remember writing something about the movie
Coming Home
for my school news magazine, and I didn't know the name of the director. My teacher-adviser told me to just call the Miami Herald arts section editor and get the info. Which I did. And he told me, "Hal Ashby" as if he answered calls like that all the time.
He's obviously savvy enough to survive on his own.
I was gonna say, I expect a cat is better at finding a bit of shade than you are.
I just cleaned out my work Inbox and various sent folders and such. I blame you all.
I am so tired that if you injected caffeine directly into my brain, it wouldn't help.
(And now I'm waiting for a sciencey type to come along and explain why it wouldn't help, anyway, to which I say IT WAS EXAGGERATION FOR EFFECT TO DEMONSTRATE HOW TIRED I AM.)
(Ahem.)
You're not being an idiot, Allyson! It's normal to worry, but if he's been feral for a while (or forever) he's going to be grateful for the food, and probably pretty good at surviving otherwise.
I will never be an inbox 0 person, but I am getting better about deleting stuff.
I won't say how many emails are in my inbox...
Cleaning out the inbox is part of why I hate gmail for work -- it's annoying to delete individual messages out of a "conversation," even when half of them are off-topic/unnecessary. And then when I file something, it pops back into the inbox if someone replies to it, ever. Bleh.
Edit: I mean, I like cleaning out my inbox via deleting the unneeded messages and filing the ones that are a record of something.
Allyson, I've seen lots of instructions on the interwebs for making cat shelters out of plastic bins, but most of them are meant for cold weather climates.
I almost never delete anything out of my inbox or file anything into folders. I used to, but I got out of the habit somewhere along the line, and it doesn't seem to make any difference, as I can search the whole thing easily anyway. If I ever went a significant length of time without checking e-mail, I suppose my disorganized ways might bite me on the ass.
Eta: I currently have 14889 messages in my Inbox. 8972 unread (which means I looked at the subject and decided I didn't need to read it but I didn't need to delete it, either)
