Latest Second Life Adventure
Latest Second Life Adventure
I am always saying I'm going to keep these blog entries short but I really am going to try tonight. Just spent over an hour and a half either trying to get into Second Life or eventually lounging around with Frank Creed and Cynthia, Terri Main, Grace Bridges, Caprice Hokstad... Ooh, shouldn't have started this. Who did I ( Read more... )
I am always saying I'm going to keep these blog entries short but I really am going to try tonight. Just spent over an hour and a half either trying to get into Second Life or eventually lounging around with Frank Creed and Cynthia, Terri Main, Grace Bridges, Caprice Hokstad... Ooh, shouldn't have started this. Who did I ( Read more... )
AOL maxes out at 1000 posts. If you have that many total posts in your in-box, anything else that comes in is refused delivery. Evidently the sender is NOT notified of this.
I've gotten behind in filing and/or deleting old posts in recent times. More about that later.
As for how many posts I get per day, I'm not 100 per cent sure, since I work on them several times a day. Working on them consists of either deleting on sight, filing a few specific ones unread and reading through the rest in order to decide which of the above actions to take.
Before I set about trying to guess how many posts I get a day, let me forestall the obvious solutions. I am not thrilled with the solutions of reading on the web or getting the digests of lists. I think this makes things more difficult to read and may take more time.
Lost Genre Guild (pro writing) at AOL --40 to 80(?) per day depending on how lively the discussions are.
Christian SpecFic (title?) at AOL - less than 5 per day.
Google Alert digests for:
labyrinths; filk; a fantasy plus author plus ... search term combo; Inklings; charles williams; mythopoeic.
Minimum of one -each-. Max of three each per day maybe.
News agency reports (my "newspaper") - 3 per day at AOL plus NYT at Verizon. (Barely scanned anymore) Also emergency news alerts which I always open and read. It's an old reaction born of 911.
Daily Bible Verse -- one per day.
Mythopoeic Society report -- one per day.
Ads that are not Spam: Putumayo Music, filk and folk singers, etc. 5-10. Mostly glanced at and filed in hopes of placing orders "some day soon".
"Author emails" -- email sent to me off-list from people on writing lists etc. 20(?) per day.
"Friends" Some emails but also notices from LJ that someone has responded to Scribblings or whatever. 15(?) per day.
"Books" -- combo of Amazon, Borders, specific publishers. 5(?) per day.
OSM list - 5-10 per day but is occasionally much higher.
Humor and silly things people send. 5 per day.
Over at Verizon:
Broad Universe list. Very variable 30(?) to 50(?) per day. Actual value? Nil to extremely important publishing industry news.
Coinherence List. Very variable. 10(?) when they are discussing a specific topic?
Guessing at 150-200 new posts per day?
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Here's a couple of new data points.
First, I forgot to mention that I receive email from that BU offshoot -- IWOFA (Infinite(Int'l?) Worlds of Fantasy Authors. These go to my gmail account. I may get 40-50 of them a day. It's hard to say because gmail is set up to telescope everything from one thread into one heading. After the Subject heading, it inserts the number of emails in that thread in parentheses. Since I don't pay much attention to that number, I'm not sure how many of these emails I get. It could easily be more than 50 a day, however lots of them are irrelevant to me since the most vocal group seems to be romance/erotica authors.
Second, when I got home -- less than a half hour ago -- I had 70 new emails at AOL. I left here a few minutes of 12. Got home 5:30ish. 70 in less than 6 hours, so between 10 & 12 new emails per hour. This afternoon at least, most of these were Lost Genre Guild. Next highest my Critters Wednesday "onslaught" of about 8 new manuscripts people want critted. Then, news alerts and other misc.
p.s. Totally unrelated> Vartha is "hiding" in my carry bag.
Oh, she actually jumped up in my lap and held still for me to pat her for about 10 minutes this morning. Must be a blue moon tonight.
Poor Khiva was asleep on the sofa -- until I threw my cardigan in the general direction of the sofa back and it slid down and landed on her.
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