I just love this time of the year.. I’m officially working this week because I burned all of my vacation doing The Colony. The thing is hardly anyone else is working… so I’m pretty much on my own. Not that I mind that..  it means that I can catch up with all those good intentions.. paramount  among those is cleaning out my email. 
 Like most folks, I get a ton of email..  for example. As I typed this, I went off and did a little data mining and found the following email counts for the month :

The ramp down in email count reflects folks flagging attention to the real world as the holidays approach . Today was relatively quiet.. I got 120 emails… not counting spam Compare that  176 on 12/10. And December is definitely the quietest email month.. ( even if April is the cruelest) .   Not all of these need answering.. but

most need to be read. .. and quite a few of those need at least short

responses. I sometimes wonder how we have time to do anything else. 

closet.. It was magical, positively transformational in fact . I said

to myself in that moment that I would never again let my email backlog grow out of control..  !

 but .. then I looked a few minutes later and it was already filling up..

I wish you all luck in your new years intentions..  We can dream, can’t we ?
Nite folks, Nite Sam
-me