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The Missing Neighbors
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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And I returned from Banff last week, the family vacation, to discover that the neighbors had gone away. There were clues, the piles of mail in their inbox, the strange but welcome quiet, and a mewing at the cellar door.
They had left their cat with a small dish of food and cup of water in downstairs hallway, the laundry room...they wouldn't be gone long.
Which is good, as I have to collect on July and Junes utility bills, read the water meter to correct an error on the last billing.....
But they didn't return, the cat has moved upstairs, the stack of mail has grown, the litterbox overflows, the food is refilled by me every other day, there was no note to look after the cat, perhaps they counted on me to return and find it, or perhaps the thought of returning to a mummified cat wasn't so disturbing for them, I send them an email, but there's no response, the landlord isn't aware they've left, I've a phone number I can call, will call later this morning, but somehow I suspect that they've just disappeared, leaving behind unpaid bills of over $500.00....
AN empty inbox
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I work through the emails, but still they come in. It's always been this way, ever since the internet and hotmail, your inbox a storage place for unanswered, unaddressed items, things to do, follow ups. It's never been empty.
But yesterday it was close. By the end of the day only 2 emails left, one from google analytics, another from an old friend that had sat there for several months. I have great excuses, I work on the computer, it's a poor tool for pleasure (for me), I'm a luddite, I've phobia about email.....
SO I answered, I had been postponing, waiting for some great news or the right time to respond, but the longer you leave certain things the harder they are to address, finally, though, the thought that I was only 1 email away from an empty inbox, it was a sign, and so I responded, apologized, and now I have an empty inbox.
There's a sort of Zen Tranquility to this, knowing that there are no unaddressed items on this list, that in some small way, in one small aspect of my life, I'm caught up....
The Memory Palace
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Audio & Podcasts
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Another great series of short podcasts with a quirky interpretation of history, updated every week or two.
Listen Here: The Memory Palace.
This American Life
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Audio & Podcasts
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A new podcast every week, with host Ira Glass and several years worth of archives. Highly recommended.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
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