> Russell McMahon wrote:
>> I will *probably* not be reading PICList traffic for a while.
...
>> I'm still receiving list traffic but I've moved the folder 
>> somewhere
>> where I won't see it.

...

> Russell,
> I don't believe you.
> But seriously, all I have time to even skim is [EE] and sometimes 
> [PIC]
> Try turning on threading and deleting whole threads at a time, 
> perhaps.
> That's what I have to do if I want to at least attempt school work.


See - this got caught by my "tilde trap" and I'm replying to it :-).
I skim headers mainly but get all too easily sucked into interesting 
threads, or decide to be "useful", or ... .

I have utterly major commitments to a client which I must meet but 
have lost all motivation to do so for reasons which are complex. I 
have developed almost an aversion to working on his project. There is 
substantial background to this which I won't air here. Suffice it to 
say that the client seems to have "melted" even worse than I have for 
reasons which are a mystery to me, and that an agent provocateur has 
been at work making sure that things go as badly as possible. Now the 
deed has been done the AP is all sweetness and light. I have to work 
with the AP on an ongoing basis. I have no real idea of why he acted 
as he did. He was obviously seeking to achieve some end which is a 
mystery to me.

I've never found myself feeling like this before or been in such a 
perverse situation (and I've been in a few perverse situations) and, 
once out of this most unpleasant situation, I hope never to have it 
happen again. Only time will tell. The upshot is that I need to rid 
myself of as many distractions as possible. Anything will do to keep 
me from the dread tasks :-). BUT the dread tasks must be done with 
alacrity and despatch. Once this is all over I hope to be able to have 
a look at what happened and why and see how I can avoid it happening 
again. For now, its batten down the hatches, hide the mailing list 
folders, grit my teeth and proceed. Hopefully.

Keep them cards and ~~letters coming - but not too many :-)


        Russell

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