O.T.: 60,000 Emails A Year

NOTE: As it is my promise to "almost always" give you weather-related content on my blog, if I deviate from that path, I'll let you know with the icon above, and the leading "O.T." in the subject. By the way, it wasn't intended to look like a "slice-of-pizza-guy," but rather a "smiley-in-a-yield-sign-guy."

Looking at my inbox this morning, it looks like I'm on task to beat my own record number of emails. In 2004, I both sent and received about 20,000 email messages.

So far this year:

14,309 Sent
25,245* Received

*9,910 Received From Automated Internal AccuWeather Lists - I May Not Have Read These

My cohorts sent me this article about how to manage your inbox, but sadly I am already doing everything they recommend. That article says people average 75 emails a day which would be 28,000 per year, but I bet they're including spam, which I'm not in my counts (I probably get more spam than real email at home -- AccuWeather puts the internal kibosh on it pretty good here). But, you know what they say, it's better to Send than to Receive.

Still, it's got to beat being in meetings all day or combing through voice mails, which I guess is what people did before email (my first job was at an Internet Service Provider so I've always lived with it).

And finally, if you don't have anything else to do at work, make a wall full of Post-It(R) Notes depicting Elvis (thanks Michelle, Wireless Queen here at AccuWeather, for both of the links in this entry).