Over the last few
days, I’ve been very organised (for me) and tidied up my computer desktop and email
inbox.
The latter was
the most in need of attention and that’s an understatement; for a number of
years now, I’ve had literally thousands of unread emails (just a little under
four thousand, to be a little more detailed) and while they were all of no
importance - and most could be deleted - I’m sure it will make a real
difference, psychologically speaking, to not be confronted by such a big number
when I log in.
That’s not to say
that I didn’t have a system for spotting if I had something to attend to; as
ridiculous as this may sound, I always knew at which point my unread stack
tended to total at - normally around the 3,420 mark - so anything above that
would have just come in. This is similar to the bit in Spinal Tap when the
documentary host asks Nigel Tufnell why he doesn’t just make ten louder instead
of going up to eleven; there was logic to my approach even if it was a touch
idiotic, but it still worked for me.
My desktop was
another secret shame that, if anything, wasn’t that secret at all, what with
the amount of shows I do with projection that inevitably result in people at
the venue seeing clutter that had built up, as I test my gear. Now, it almost
doesn’t look like my computer which is a little disorientating, but if that’s
the worst part of being more on top of things, I can live with it.