Iced Tea Stats and Email Disasters
I want to come up with a way of tracking my Iced Tea manufacturing/consumption. I think this would be a very appropriate place for such data. It would be highly relevant and completely riveting.
I’m 27 hours into my current gallon and it’s almost depleted.
I struggle with keeping caught up on email. The last few weeks have brought a new low. I just can’t get ahead of the disaster that is my inbox. When I start pushing sixty, seventy messages I usually try to clean up and knock it down to -40 or 50, but lately that ain’t been happening.
My inbox is sitting right now at an unprecedented 172 messages. I’m overwhelmed. I’m ready to just delete the whole thing and start over.
22 Responses
February 18th, 2005 at 6:59 am
I must ask how much water you consume on a daily basis. Water is the essence of life, Tom. You must drink water! You should limit your tea intake to meals alone. That would be wise, and it would make you a better person!
Ag
February 18th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
I drink water when I sing. Lots of it. And I don’t mean just when I am singing, I mean the days around it.
But I rarely sing anymore.
So bring on the iced tea!
February 18th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
Tom, I’m praying for a revival to take place in your life! You need it!
Ag
February 18th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
Oh come on Ag, what’s so bad about tea? I find it much more refreshing than just plain water.
February 18th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
Iced tea is what Adam and Eve drank before the fall. Following the fall, Man had to make tea from the tea’s post-fall replacement, water.
I’m considering posting this anonymously because it’s so stupid. But I resist.
February 18th, 2005 at 11:04 pm
SWEET iced tea is to drink; water is to bathe.
February 19th, 2005 at 3:16 am
You all deserve to have bodies contaminated with filth and very bad skin! I am horrified, to say the least, at the anti-water spirit that I sense.
You must drink water! Drink to live!
Ag
February 19th, 2005 at 9:19 am
We had better tone down the rhetoric, Ag sounds like she’s going to have an aneurism, or break out in hives. Who knows, maybe this issue about water can be her platform on her own blog.
February 20th, 2005 at 8:24 am
And someday you will wish you would have listened to me. I have this friend who drinks nothing but tea and lemonade and insists that it is “as good as” water. His brother is even worse! He drinks 8-12 cups of COFFEE a day and thinks there is nothing wrong with that. I don’t understand why he doesn’t just fall on the floor and twitch.
Would work on a blog Paul, but I’m turning against starting one again. See, blogs are becoming like Xanga (please forgive me Tom!), only in the opposite sense. Xanga is dudes and cool kids struggling to find their identity, trying to make a statement in life, and blogs are filled pompous, over-stuffed intellectuals all trying to sound more intelligent then each other. (Forgive me for that too, because it’s not ALWAYS the case at all…..) I’m just trying to make the comparison here. Blogs are multiplying as quickly as Xanga sites. Cool kids do xanga sites, the deep and intellectual do blogs.
In reality, no one needs another blog to spend their time on when there are too many to keep up with anyhow. So, why should I simply become just another number if I cannot offer more than what is being offered already?
To any involved in Xanga or blogs, don’t be offended, you all are great…….it’s just your fellow man has gotten a bit carried away…..
Ag
February 20th, 2005 at 8:55 am
Ag, I don’t know how you could have hurt me any worse. First, making an association with Xanga. Second, associating (albeit very distantly) my blog with “deep and intellectual!!”
And all this from a deep woman!
I’m massively offended!
Ag, no matter what, you’re always going to manufacture an excuse not to start a blog, aren’t you.
February 20th, 2005 at 3:03 pm
You think that I would call you deep and intellectual? You are excluded from the general blogger. You have no depth…..:), and we all love you that way…..deep thinking can be overrated! But, so can no-thinking. See, that’s the thing. You have two extremes. You have blogs, and you have Xanga. There needs to be something in the middle for people that have something to say, but don’t give themselves migraines trying to be exceedingly more brilliant then their fellow man.
And you are calling me a deep woman? Is that to be a compliment or offensive? Alas, today, I have no depth. None. I am Xanga today! :) (I do love you Xanga people…….you are dear!)
And lastly Thomas, my last decision is not an excuse! It’s a statement of the obvious. Blogs are high in number and increasing rapidly. If there is one thing I do not want to be in life, it is just another number. If I had the realization that blogging would indeed be benefical to my fellow man and perhaps myself, I would consider it to a greater degree.
I don’t have anything to prove. I have no interest in expounding on my intellect, for I have very little. I have no interest in portraying my intelligent mind, my ability to think and reason, for I have little capability in that aspect. I have no interest in showing off how deep and spiritual I am, because I am simply a person that is struggling along just like anybody else. I have nothing to prove.
But, that may not necessarily mean that I have nothing to give. We all have something to give. I’m just not sure if my “giving” would be beneficial in blog form.
Ag
February 20th, 2005 at 4:23 pm
I appreciate your sincerity and levelheadedness. However, if you do not start a blog, at least comment on the posts of other bloggers. We need a peanut gallery that keeps us humble. You, dear lady, are the whetstone that hones the bowling balls of our intellects. (How’s that for deep imagery?)
February 20th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
Ag, all is forgiven and you’re back in my good graces with those first 3 sentences!
And you’ll never be just another number. Trust us on that one!
February 21st, 2005 at 12:10 am
Trust US? Thomas, you do not speak for the people. You are only one.
Paul, I lash out sincerely and you accept it graciously and return kind words as well. You are obviously a man who knows his mind, is not an arrogant pig, and is settled in who he is. I applaud!
My problem is not intellectual people as a whole, my problem is with the intellectual people parading around on this lofty, little pedestal that they have constructed for themselves, in which they think they are “better” then the normal or average mind, simply because they have been blessed with an intelligent mind. Intelligence makes you NO better then any other person and I will honestly smack that into the face of anyone who dares to believe otherwise! We are gifted differently, and we are wise to recognize the gifts and abilities of others as important and as significant as our own!
Okay, forgive the passionate outburst there. I just have very little room in my heart for the pious, haughty, “oh-I-am-so-smart” individuals who prance about like a cocky rooster strutting there stuff! I get very indignant! Anyhow, where was I? Oh, yes. Paul, I was in your blog, and I had something to say……..but I couldn’t comment anon, and I didn’t want to sign up……..change your system and I’ll be back. :) Your babies are precious!
Ag
February 21st, 2005 at 6:47 pm
I blush!
February 21st, 2005 at 10:24 pm
Just wondering Ag, which you would rather- should we drink tea or should we go for soda and something as ( sickening? ) as kool-aide?
Lavern
February 21st, 2005 at 11:11 pm
Perhaps, Lavern, you did not catch Ag’s statements about water as the essence of life.
February 22nd, 2005 at 12:08 pm
I have, however, never stated that you should NEVER drink anything else, but, as a whole, you should drink water. I do, in fact, drink other such beverages on occasion, basically when I eat out. I do, however, carry a water bottle with me almost everywhere that I go. I hate to be without it, you get used to drinking alot of water. I would indeed say that tea is a better choice then soda. I do love sweet tea (Tom be proud…..). It’s sort of hard to come by where I am from, but Ruby Tuesdays has really good sweet tea and Applebees is reasonable, so I do indulge on occasion. I do however, think you should stick to water between meals for several reason. First off, who needs all the extra sugar anyhow? Secondly, you go brush your teeth and then coat them with a sugared substance? Doesn’t make sense. So, you are messing up your matabolism and ruining your teeth all in one. Teeth are a big deal! Drink water, brush and floss! And you SHOULD use a floride mouth-wash, but I’ll forgive you if you do not as long as you do the other regularly, say after EVERY meal!
Come, children, hearken unto me!
Ag
February 22nd, 2005 at 1:56 pm
Ag, you sound like a very sweet person, but I’m glad you weren’t my mom; I’m sure the feeling is mutual. My mom kept a gallon of iced tea in the fridge ALL the time. That was one of the first things I learned to make in the kitchen. This could explain my undeniable caffeine addiction. I drink 3-4 cups of coffee every morning, tea or soda at lunch, and tea at supper. I have no doubt you’re right. I need to drink water; when I’m working hard, that is what I want. Otherwise, it’s BORING! That is probably why most people don’t want to drink it.
February 22nd, 2005 at 6:34 pm
Actually, my MOM gets all the credit for the small fact that I actually DO drink water. When I was a kid, I would drink anything that was around, EXCEPT water. So, she quit having stuff around. I rarely drank water until I was in High School, then I became addicted. But, it’s a good addiction with alot of added benefits.
Just cut back on the coffee in the morning, slack off a little at other meals, carry a water bottle around in between, and you’ll be set!
Ag
February 23rd, 2005 at 9:26 am
I wish that instead of water fountains in public places, they would put up tea fountains.
But it probably would not be good-tasting. Also would probably be contaminated worse than water.
But i still like the idea…
March 1st, 2005 at 1:14 pm
i am sorry i didn’t return to this post and the comments that came of it. It is amazing that such a post can promote such a deep discussion on the use of blogs! i have also considered why i publish a blog and i have wondered, as Ag has said, that there are too many blogs out there. Well i guess there are, but i wonder if that is a reason to not publish, i think that it is the why we publish that is the most important question to ask. i publish in order to witness of Christ and i wanted to keep ‘me’ out of it and i find that is almost impossible. We are creatures of opinions and our arrogance/pride does manage to creep into our posts. What intelligence i have i want to give back to God since he gave it to me in the first place. i am not as good a witness in person as on a blog for i need to think and i don’t do that very well when i talk. Posting gives me time to pray, think, pray, write, pray, edit,pray and then post. Even then i see things later that i could have said better. Ag, i want to thank you for your insight, Tom thank you for creating the post that started it! Keep the faith, and keep on posting and commenting. And Ag, i’ll start to drink more water without the coffee and tea in it! God bless.