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A lot has changed in my life in the past year and a half. Some excellent changes! New relationship, new job, ran a 5K for the first time in decades, completed the B1 level in German.
But that means my focus and energy were seriously diverted, and I was completely unable to keep up with many things that I did have the ability to in the past.
As of right now, I have 638 unread emails in my inbox.
Today, I'll try to go through as many as I can. Wish me luck!
Update: I did it. My inbox now has zero unread emails.
All of the 638 were either replied to, read, or deleted. A good chunk were spam. A bunch involved reading code. Some involved looking at CI errors. A few resulted in writing and pushing code. A couple made me smile.
Thank you all for sending good vibes! Every little star here was a bit of incentive through the hours I spent on this!
@hisham_hm I still need to check “unsubscribe from promotional stuff” from my list. Some of it is procmail-triaged away already, but I still get too many (not full unsolicited spam) ad-mails in my inbox. It is just one or two per day, but over a week this tends to add up and consumes more attention than warranted.
Maybe I should just do that today rather than postponing.
Out of all those hundreds of unread emails, 100+ were related to LuaRocks, 40+ were related to Teal, and about a dozen more were on other Lua projects.
This exercise taught me a lot about where I stand in regard to the projects that I created sometimes years, sometimes decades ago. Time to turn some decisions into action, and to not let this silent overflow happen again.
@hisham_hm Good luck with that.
My inbox will see your 638 and raise you your 5K, then add my own 5K on top of that. Yes my unread count is in the 5 digits just in the inbox, nevermind some prolific notification channels that are filtered to other boxes.
@alerque I have declared inbox bankruptcy in the past. But this time I'm not worried about the inbox number. I really wanted to check what I was missing out and what I was really failing to tend to.
@hisham_hm Hey! I also run 5k for the first time last year! Since then I do it regularly (every saturday!)
I started tracking it like if it was difficult and now I can do it consistently, haha! poor me! I was so fucked up...
Great to see more people trying it and improving! Good job!
@ekaitz_zarraga I ran a 10K race back in my twenties. I want to get back there!
I'm running twice a week with my girlfriend; we started gradually and we're running in the 4-6K range weekly now. I'm feeling we'll get to 10K later this year!
Have you ever signed up for a race, with numbers on your chest and everything? It's a lot of fun!
@hisham_hm no, I never have. I'm not very interested on competition or in things that gather too many people in one place.
But at the same time I find it interesting to see people around cheering for you. So I may try.
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