When we poured some cement quite a while ago, I grabbed Robbie and carefully pressed his paw into the wet cement. I am sure at the time he thought I was behaving very strangely, and perhaps should have given him a doggy cookie instead. But I knew better. As I came back from my walk this morning, I noticed his paw print there in the sidewalk and thought I would share a photo.
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After reading CaraSusanetta's entry today where she describes her frenzied attempts to recover what sounds like volumes of old emails that she has been saving on her computer which is having a psychotic break, and having heard from several other people over the years being distressed over the same issue, I have a question.
If you save large quantities of old emails, why do you do it?
No offense intended, but I don't get it. I DO get printing out particularly touching ones or ones from family members, but having a whole lot of them saved on my hard drive never occurs to me. Am I missing something important?
Now to be honest, from time to time it DOES occur to me that we have a huge quantity of correspondence that is evaporating into cyberspace when we delete them. And that it might be very hard for historians in the future to figure out what we were all so enamoured of when we talked about loving to get and send email. But beyond this I still wonder about the desire to save lots of emails.
Do you go back and read them? How do you find the one you want? Do you refer to them often? Aren't you afraid they are incredibly vulnerable to accidental loss (the very nature of computerdom?
So I am ready to be educated. And heck, I might even change my ways if you email savers explain what I might be missing by being so cavalier with my "Delete" button.
I'm all email ears !