Contact
"You talked to who? Jerry?" "Oh my God" I exclaimed. I haven't talked to Jerry since my junior year in high school in 1972. But here was my old friend telling me he'd just re-established contact with our one-time classmate. "And you did just happen to get an e-mail address, right?" I asked. My friend replied in the affirmative and within seconds I too had the info. This would be fun. I always enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane and I couldn't wait to reconnect with Jerry. I then added his e-mail to my contact list and then it hit me...I don't need another contact.
I perused my contact list and found I had more than seven hundred e-mail addresses, of which I regularly used only about forty or so. Seven hundred! How would I find time for yet another contact? How much quality time could I possibly give to another person in this very long list. I mean, it's not that I don't like Jerry, I do, I always did. But how many times can you slice up a given amount of a day or lifetime to spend with another person and still have time for one's real life?
The internet age has been wonderful. It has given power to the powerless and allowed the small to speak to the mighty. But there's only so many people we can deal with in real time. Or in real life. Having said that I'll probably give Jerry a call and we'll both be glad we took the time. But all these contacts will have to take something out of someone else's hide. Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul never did anyone any good. Maybe I have to start deleting contacts. Yes, that will do the trick! This will make my life simpler, easier to manage. But where will I find the time to do that? Will someone please get me off the entropy-go-round before I puke?
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As hard as I tried to convince him I didn't have his finger, he persisted in badgering me. I think he was coked up still. Finally I told him to fuck off and he climbed back out the window.
Sometimes it's best to leave the past in the past, ya know what I mean?
In my zeal to be conservative in my estimate I miscounted the number of e-mail addresses. In reality it's not seven hundred but well over nine hundred contacts. I'm sorry I lied. :) I mean, I love e-mailing and everything but enough is enough. However, if someone could get me Catherine Zeta Jones' e-mail then I'd find time...