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fred_mouse) wrote2021-12-25 04:04 pm
fred_mouse) wrote2021-12-25 04:04 pm
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On deleting things from my inbox
- This is emotionally difficult. Sometimes there are bits of my life in comments on other people's posts, and I'd forgotten entirely
- Having a nuke the site from orbit approach is helping with that
- the number of messages appears to not be going down. Hypothesis: the count is not what I thought it was.
- I am now at 60 pages instead of 64
- Oldest item in inbox is now from August 2014
- Some of these are comments from people I unfollowed at some historical point; those are really easy to let go of
- The computer is getting too hot, I'm going to have to stop
- comments from james are just as likely to be story snippets as not. Probably because I was leaving them to go and revisit occasionally. Animal transformation FTW. But in a fandom I've walked away from, so a leetle bit awkward feeling.
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Thanks! I moved forward in time to 'unread' comments, and now the number is going down. So, I had many many more comments than I thought. Sticking with the same goal thought :)
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1. I got that from re-reading my own journals today. So weird, not to remember bits of one's own life.
7. Holy smokes, the computer is showing strain from that? Huh. What an extra hurdle to deal with and one I totally would not have expected.
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I dream of getting down to 33!
As to the computer getting hot -- the day I posted this it hit 43.3°C, it wasn't this activity in particular! I think this was even after getting a cold pack out of the freezer.
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That is slightly reassuring about the computer although wow, that is hot! Do you guys have AC? Here in Germany, we mostly don't. Until recently, temps here did not get close to 40°C IIRC but now apparently, they do in some regions. The cold pack tip is noted...
Best wishes for getting closer to 33! :D
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The long term goal is to get to inbox zero. I've started the year by moving all of the 2021 and older emails out of the inbox, so I might actually get to 'nothing from this year'. And then I'm making myself look at the older emails each day, and find three to deal with. So I think I'm getting there.
This house has AC, although that makes it pretty much unique in terms of houses I've lived in. I don't have a feel for how common it is -- I think that newer houses might have it built in more frequently? This is the newest house I've lived in, being built in 1981. It has ducted air, but that might be because it was originally a show home (ie. a building company built it as an example for customers to look at; this and next door were a pair, and they are both very different from anything else in the suburb). I'm assuming we had it on that day, but probably only in one room, and we were spread out across the house.
Rather than AC, it used to be common to have ceiling fans. We have a box fan, and used to use it regularly, but haven't actually got it out of the garage yet this summer -- probably because it went from unseasonally cool to hot in what felt like a couple of days. The cold pack I use is one of the sport ones - the gel packs. However, ice bricks work as well. Need to wrap it in a bit of cloth so that the moisture doesn't get on the computer.
I imagine that Germany is much better set up for cold, which means if you are hitting temperatures like 40°C then the houses get really hot, and hold the heat. If that happens to you, and you have a portable fan (either a box fan or a pedestal fan), then once the outside is cooler than the inside, opening a door or window and pointing the fan outside actually helps -- it draws the hot air out faster. I actually learned that trick from a maths professor, who had done the modelling on it! The lecture room that we had that year was about the size of my bedroom, and we had half a dozen students plus the professor. The first hot day, they opened up the window and stuck the fan on the window sill, and then proceeded to give a quick overview of the math.