Archive for December 11th, 2009
Am I obsessed or accomplishing something?
I’ve spent about 9 hours out of the last 24 trying to sort out the mess of my contact list. Some of it goes all the way back to my Rolodex – which I haven’t used for a good ten years, but which is where many of these contacts got their start before they were entered into my various PDAs and then transferred from one OS to another. The last big problem was dumping everything off of my Treo into gmail and then from there to into my iPhone. Fields are in the wrong place, there are tons of duplicates, and every time I’d scroll through my phone to look for something, it would make me depressed. Somehow, last night I became determined to put it right, and today I’ve continued the work, hoping for that perfect synch some time in my future.
Going through old contacts of course brings up both puzzlement (Just who the heck is this person anyway?) and sadness. So many deaths. And even in the midst of the information midden heap we inhabit, where nothing ever seems to go away, it’s hard not to feel strangely apprehensive when the software warns you that “This action cannot be undone” as your finger is about to click the “delete” button for the second time.
As it is my head is buzzing with names and numbers, and I’m still not really done.
Tags: data, friends, organizing