tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895687241085948761.post8625816853329408310..comments2023-08-14T12:59:49.564-04:00Comments on It's Duck Soup: Time like a riverFrederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541101078258130096noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4895687241085948761.post-73543620586861905332011-01-26T21:13:53.557-05:002011-01-26T21:13:53.557-05:00You don't get long letters anymore? Have you s...You don't get long letters anymore? Have you seen the size of my e-mails? OK, they arrive via zapping electrons rather than on sheets of paper (though they could be printed out and read in hard-copy form, were one so inclined), but the majority of them still constitute a fair amount of wordage. <br /><br />Work hassles: I'm sympathetic. I got home at 10:30PM last night, was two hours late to work Monday (got an MRI), was out of the office two hours today (got MRI results -- surgery in the future, if I so choose), will take half of Friday off ... and by that time I'll _still_ will have more than 40 hours of work in on the dayjob this week. And guess who's been copy-editing the Toth book until 2AM each night? So yeah -- I definitely sympathize!<br /><br />re: Time management -- Here's something nice, old-fashioned, and elegant in its simplicity: buy a calendar. A real, paper calendar you can hang on the wall, with the grid for the days of the week big enough to write in. (Pleasant pictures are an added plus, but you _need_ a good-sized grid.) Then -- WRITE IN IT! When you pay a bill in February, flip ahead to March and on the same day, write, "Ready for bill." Do the same the next month. And the next. It only takes a few seconds. Got an appointment? Write it in. Got a friend's birthday or other key event to remember? Write it in. Then, once each week, all you gotta do is _glance at the calendar_ to know what lies ahead. This simple process has kept me pretty much on track for decades now ... I dunno why more folks don't do it. I don't know why so many persons feel the need for whippy-do "personal assistants" or whatever other electronic claptrap is being shoved down our throats at exorbitant prices. Calendar. Pen. Write. It really _is_ that easy!<br /><br />And you say you don't get long letters anymore. Pshaw! Pshaw!<br /><br />Hang loose, hero --Cnwlhttp://www.libraryofamericancomics.comnoreply@blogger.com