{"id":617,"date":"2009-12-30T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/12\/30\/tuesday-night-inbox\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T04:35:00","slug":"tuesday-night-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/12\/30\/tuesday-night-inbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night &#8211; inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_523999869\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t    I just love this time of the year.. I&#8217;m officially working this week because I burned all of my vacation doing The Colony. The thing is hardly anyone else is working&#8230; so I&#8217;m pretty much on my own. Not that I mind that..\u00a0 it means that I can catch up with all those good intentions.. paramount\u00a0 among those is cleaning out my email.\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0Like most folks, I get a ton of email..\u00a0 for example. As I typed this, I went off and did a little data mining and found the following email counts for the month : <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec2909\/emails.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">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&#8230; not counting spam Compare that\u00a0 176 on 12\/10. And December is definitely the quietest email month.. ( even if April is the cruelest) .\u00a0\u00a0 Not all of these need answering.. but<\/p>\n<p>most need to be read. .. and quite a few of those need at least short<\/p>\n<p>responses. I sometimes wonder how we have time to do anything else.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/>And.. for one glorious moment.. I got down to zero emails in my inbox.. zero &#8230; nada .. zip .. ..\u00a0\u00a0 It was the electronic equivalent to a clean desk, or an organized<\/p>\n<p>closet.. It was magical, positively transformational in fact . I said<\/p>\n<p>to myself in that moment that I would <i>never again <\/i>let my email backlog grow out of control..\u00a0 !<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec2909\/inbox.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0but .. then I looked a few minutes later and it was already filling up.. <\/p>\n<p>I wish you all luck in your new years intentions..\u00a0 We can dream, can&#8217;t we ? <br \/>Nite folks, Nite Sam <br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love this time of the year.. I&#8217;m officially working this week because I burned all of my vacation doing The Colony. The thing is hardly anyone else is working&#8230; so I&#8217;m pretty much on my own. Not that I mind that..\u00a0 it means that I can catch up with all those good intentions.. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/12\/30\/tuesday-night-inbox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday night &#8211; inbox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}