You ever delete unread messages in your inbox (subscriptions to some news service or something) and say to yourself “knowing my luck, those will be the editions that actually HAVE something I’d be interested in reading tonight?”
I’ve discovered this wonderful new web service aptly called “FeedMyInbox” which will take any web feed and send it to your inbox daily (sometimes more than once a day depending on the feed). I was getting WAY behind my news subscriptions in Google Reader and no method of keeping was working for me at ALL. I put a reader on my phone, it’s still there telling me I have the same 742 unread items that I had when I first installed it. So I trimmed my reading list thinking that if I had less to read I’d be more inclined to keep up. Well, that’s all fine and dandy when you have time outside your other interests to go TO Reader and read. So I thought it’d be nice to have some key feeds delivered in my email since I (a) read email on my phone quite a bit and (b) always check my email at some point anyway. If I don’t have time to do anything else, I make time to check mail because that’s one of the key methods for me to keep in touch with people.
Well, for the last 3 or 4 days, my feeds (except for the personal blogs) have been B-O-R-I-N-G. I haven’t had any REALLY interesting articles for at least a couple of days. Tonight when I saw the 3 messages sitting in my inbox, being that I am so tired and needed to blog anyway … I deleted them.
/sigh
Of course, you KNOW that one of those will have THE article of the WEEK that I SHOULD have read. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to dream them up myself in sleep tonight.
Speaking of being healthy and getting some sleep (it was implied in the last sentence =P), I weighed in at 151lbs at the doctor this week. THAT, my dear readers, is so far from acceptable, it’s on another continent. So … as of now I am on a chocolate and junk food diet. My snacking (which I believe is the culprit here) has gotten immensely out of control. Apple slices and granola bars will now replace the snickers, m&ms and hershey bars that I have been consuming en masse for weeks.
::grumbles:: this better work …
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This is exactly what I'm running into. I have feedmyinbox for the posts from people (like family) that I simply HAVE to see. I haven't expanded past that. If I see something from feedmyinbox I know it's important and not to delete it.
Posted 26 May 2009 at 13:38:44 ¶The other night when I was going through email I was emailing so much and the same thought was going through my head. What if that was the article, what if that blog post I've been waiting for that would give me hope, or be my muse, or change me in ways I never thought I could be changed. Sigh. Never enough time, dammit. Rush rush rush, all the time. When does it end?
I know. The worse part about it is never being able to break the cycle of just “select all; delete”. /sigh
Posted 06 Jun 2009 at 10:17:14 ¶