February 7th, 2008 by erisian

after dragging my sorry ass into work today, all i wanted was a cup of coffee and a blowjob under the desk. i settled for coffee and no blowjob. I have a hell of a lot of work piled up for the day already, Outlook was being a little bitch and failed to open, and calls were waiting to be answered. took a couple calls. they sucked.

Outlook finally stops being a memory whore and opens. turns out, i was being a memory whore as well. inside my inbox i have a network message advising me that my mailbox is too full. well.. i suppose that isnt helping with keeping outlook working smoothly.. crap.. now i have to add personal maintenance to the list of things to do today.

deciding to get it done early i opened my work inbox. holy shit.. i keep everything..

I never delete anything at work. it is easier to use a search function and locate info that will be useful later than it is to delete things and determine how useful they will be in the future based on current knowledge. this has saved time and headache numerous times. little bits of data coming in useful when no one would have bothered saving it. i am a digital packrat. apparently, in the process, i have saved a whole lot of stuff that i would never need (assistance requests, paycheck notifications, etc) and due to laziness, today i found myself accosted by a daunting task.. filtering out all the crap and saving only the useful.

it has been 2 hours now and i have officially made it all the way through years 2004, 2005, 2006 and deleted over 23,000 emails. through a combination of generic word filters i have already deleted the bulk of the garbage, but i still have 4500+ emails to go through from 2007/2008.. luckily, over the recent months, i did start cleaning up the garbage on a weekly basis, so it should be easier.