Proving the Obviously Untrue

Speaking of catching up with old friends, I went to see Mark Kerr in Belfast last Saturday night. Mark and I know each other well from the old fidonet days, and I guess we haven't had much contact since I moved to Banbridge, but it was great to see him and his family again. Part of the motivation for that specific timing was another old friend visiting, JoHo, another veteran of fidonet (in case you didn't know), who was over visiting Ireland (some kind of pilgrimage to Bushmills probably ) with his friend Goran.

Mark had a BBQ on, that we briefly left for a surprising, but really fun diversion (I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you), then we got back, ate a few burgers, drank some wine/coke/whiskey and chattered our way into the small hours. It was really nice to meet up with old friends and meet new people too. I think it's nice that there are some people you can go for years between seeing, but it still feels like old times when you see them again. So I guess it's my turn to come to Sweden again now, Jack.

Like lots of people who are too hooked into technology for their own good, I tend to receive loads of emails a day, even after the huge quantity of spam is removed. Sometimes it's easy, and fast to respond to a given email. Once in a while I get an email from someone that I really want to respond to in some detail; usually an email from a good friend I don't often see or haven't seen in a while.

Since I'm usually up to my neck in too much stuff, it's precisely this email that I leave to the side to deal with later, "when I have more time". Yes, the people who know me well already understand the problems with that. It would help if icedove stored its tags correctly in my dovecot based IMAP server. but for some reason it often doesn't. The end result is that "later", I'm still struggling to complete a dozen tasks on a list, and the email is anonymously buried in my inbox under many more recent arrivals.

That's really not good, and I'll have to make more of an effort to keep in touch with all these friends.