Neanderpundit

That Roy Rogers wore some pretty ornate boots. Here are a pair from the Roy and Dale museum. He favored a couple makers but he also tended to look around for new and unusual boots.

So when he came home one day with a new pair of shiny, ornate lizard and python skin boots Dale was not the least bit surprised. They sat on the porch and admired them, and then Roy changed into work boots and he and Dale both went off to do some chores. Roy went to retrieve his new boots before going inside for lunch, and found to his dismay they had been mauled by some beast, the carefully tanned and brightly colored reptile skin damp and gnarled and full of tooth marks, pieces actually torn off, the heels and soles cracked and destroyed.

Normally a patient and long tempered man, Roy sees red. he walks out into the yard, and there in the Apple Valley dirt, were the unmistakeable tracks of a mountain lion.

Unwilling to let this stand, Roy follows the tracks and soon is face to face with a huge lion, traces of lizardskin still sticking to it’s whiskers. A pitched battle ensues and while Roy is unarmed he is pissed, so before too long, he is dragging a severely beaten mountain lion home, semiconscious, bleeding, tongue hanging out, and you should SEE the mountain lion!

He staggers up to the house, ties a rope around the lions neck and ties the other end around a tree in case it wakes up, and
walks up the porch.

Dale has been sitting on the porch awaiting his return, and doing a crossword puzzle. His clothes in tatters, Roy reaches for the screen door when Dale looks up at him and says
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No, not just an unopened mail, any mail at all.

I have been creating a new archive directory by month for all my business correspondence since- well, since I had business correspondence. When I get a mail, I read it, react to it if I need to, and put it in the archive folder. I have archives going back a long way.

Used to be when I went on vacation I would have people I trusted do this for me, in case there was something that turned up when I was gone. I loathed coming home to a full inbox, because nothing would do but I had to sit down and empty it.

My personal email is treated a bit differently, I don’t save old correspondence unless it’s something I need for one reason or another. But i still can’t stand to have it full.

This is one of the best uses for my smartphone; I can receive, react, and respond to business correspondence instantly. Over the last two days I have headed off a problem with a machine that might otherwise have taken weeks or months to resolve, because I was able to respond in realtime to people halfway around the world.

yeah, it’s a little obsessive. Worse things have happened.

Try to take a day off.