mystergee

OMG, I decided to check my email before I go to bed, and my inbox has 248 items, 197 unread. This is unreal. Unfortunately, it's not unusual. The bulk of the unread messages are automated messages; system self-checks, monitoring reports, alerts, et cetera. Fun fun fun. I think I'll sort through some of them before I go to sleep. Good thing I have Alluna or I'd never be able to sleep. Wow, 106 of those messages are just from root on various machines. Five from slashdot -- wow, I'm falling behind. Not to mention I haven't had time to read the daily slashdots for months. I'm falling behind even on just filing them into their nice little folder. Yes, I know I could set up a rule, but then I would forget about them completely. Besides, I like to keep the last day or two in my inbox so they sync to my Jornada so I can read when I'm taking a break alone ... even though I haven't had time for that in months either. From SiteScope: 14 daily reports, 3 weekly reports, two CPU warnings (note to self: raise warning threshold), and three errors. This stupid reminder I set up to clean up /tmp on keeps popping up, but I can't dismiss it until I confirm that the automated process is working, which I don't feel like doing tonight. So I keep hitting snooze like a dumbass without increasing the snooze time from 5 minutes. NTS: raise the snooze to 8 hours next time. Of course, there are the obligatory three messages from "System Administrator" saying my mailbox is over its size limit. Three messages: Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights. Naturally. My automated archiving and deletion just can't keep up with the flood of email. Too many things require my actual attention (as opposed to just storing for lookup if needed), or are one-offs that I can't handle easily with filters. Let's not even talk about the "Followup" folder where I place the things that don't require my immediate attention but I want to get back to "sooner or later". It always ends up being "later", of course. On another topic, I've never started a blog before because I didn't have anything I wanted to write about. I just did this on a kick today after helping a friend with hers, and now I think I like it. It sucks a little having to be careful not to mention anything that's company private, restricted, or confidential... it interrupts the flow. Okay, that's enough venting for now. Time to SLEEP ... what a concept.

# waj @ 00:57