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by Karoli on August 11, 2006

With the news full of speculation about the latest broken terrorist plot, I’ve found myself distracted and tired of the world today. When that happens, I end up buried inside of myself unless I shake it off and go outside and do something.

I let gravity hold me in the house until about 6:30 or so, when I shook it off, grabbed the camera case and took off. No TV, no radio, just me, the car, the camera and the back roads where the farms out here are. I’m still working on the shots, but they cheered me up.

I came home at 8, just after sundown and discovered The Eldest, who had come home from Arizona for no apparent reason — more or less on impulse. As glad as I am to see him, it worries me…I find myself wondering if there’s more to it than just an impulse to see the beach and escape Arizona weather.

Reading blogs tonight, some heavy stuff. Alcoholism, anxiety/depression, traveling during a red alert.

I feel banal by comparison. My big question of the day was whether I am a deleter or a hoarder.

I am a hoarder. I’m afraid I not only hoard email, I hoard thoughts, letting them roll around in my head and letting them distract me from anything productive. I need a lasso, something to keep them in check, something to put me back in focus.

Sticks and Bigdog are groovin’ to jazz at The Baked Potato. I’m sitting here writing what could be my most absurd and random blog post ever.

Maybe tomorrow. Are you a hoarder or a deleter? Random minds want to know.

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  • Ah, I concede. But I still have the C64 in my arsenal. :)
  • finnigh
    LOL. I'll see you your ALR and Compaq and raise you with an Kaypro II and a 6800 prototyping breakout board :D
  • Wooohooo, finnigh! I have you beat. We have an original ALR 386 in the garage and a Compaq suitcase in our closet. The Compaq has a 40 MB Hardcard in it -- state of the art in 1988. :)

    And I just found the Commodore 64 on Sticks' closet shelf. I'm afraid I'm hopeless.
  • finnigh
    Although over the years I have made ruthless efforts to shed myself of the habit (e.g. bravely tossing out boxes without even looking in them), I am afraid that I too am a life-long hoarder. I actually have a small pile of old 486's - still ready to boot - with old data on them gathering dust.

    The other day I came across an old floppy for a C-64 and I felt quite embarrased about it. It's time to get ruthless again, I think.
  • LOL, it does sound like an email disorder.

    Kmilyun would be the highest order of deleter. :)

    I, on the other hand, am the highest order of hoarder. Last week, someone asked for an attachment that I found on an email in 2003....yep.

    I hope more people respond -- I'm curious. I thought everyone saved email. :)
  • Hoarder. And then I purge. Sounds like an email disorder, doesn't it?
  • I clear my emails once everyday unless I make it two. I only save emails that contain verifications for transactions and such. If they are really important I print em out and file them.

    When I recieved 50 or so a day I moved them around into folders marked:
    answer
    save
    friend
    work

    I did have one more but it was rather rude I suppose but telling:
    Pest
    this is where I placed the fowared messages that some friends send because they think I really need to know something.
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