watching expired appliances align

it's the heat being turned on

as an addition to these july thoughts about email i've decided that the phone age (with answering machines, of course) was better. if someone called and you didn't return a call you could just say you forgot. i forgot. i lost the slip of paper where i'd written the message. with email, a person's email just sits in my in-box, staring at me. waiting for a response. and i like to keep a clean in-box with my hotmail (not so with my home mail....i've got issues, obviously). and sometimes i just can't keep a neat in-box. there are too many things going on. too many events that need remembering. too many daily rambling conversations with friends who are just too good about writing back. so good that they write back during the same day! it's as if the burden is now on ME to keep my in-box cleaned out. sometimes i just can't take it. and so if you ever get an email response from me that doesn't cover all the topics mentioned, don't think i'm slighting you. or maybe you should think i'm slighting you. in some cases, i'll dash off a hurried response that covers one or two points but that leaves other things for a later response. sometimes i'm good about going back to your email and responding. i always let that email sit in my in-box a few days. somtimes i go back to it. sometimes i don't. basically, whenever i drop a topic it means i'm intentionally dropping it. i've considered responding and stretching it out, but i have nothing left to say on that topic.

(but just in case, i am reserving the right to go back and revise my thoughts and opinions. of course, i just deleted your email after responding to it.)