50,000 emails... and counting

It's almost like losing a friend. One day everything it's fine and the next you wake up to a computer that doesn't work. All email stops, documents don't open, even that stupid Solitare game is unresponsive. A quick call to a friend prompted a visit... and the "sickness" was diagnosed. My computer was suffering from a case of mega-email-inbox-disorder. In other words, I had almost 30,000 emails in my inbox, another 20,000 or so in my Sent folder, and a scattering (about 7,500) in some miscellaneous folders. The recovery process took almost 3 weeks, but I'm back with fewer emails in my inbox, a new operating system and renewed interest in sharing my thought via a blog.