poll: star wars movie?

Jeff and I are back home. Back to audit stuff for me, woo boy. It looks like I'm going to have to approach Xlibris for at least one document that the CCRA needs; we'll see what happens with that.

I've finally managed to get through the 1300 e-mails that were stagnating in my Eudora inbox. Deleted a lot of old ones, deleted a lot of spam, filtered about 150 of them into a "still needs to be answered" separate mailbox. According to my Eudora stats, I get about 45 e-mails a day, send about 15 e-mails a day. A far cry from the 300 e-mails/day that I received when I worked on Inkspot, but I'm still trying to figure out a way to keep up, especially when I'm out of e-mail contact several days in a row. Lately, most of my e-mail correspondence has been with accountants and my tax lawyer. :-\

Partly because of my Market Watch column, I'm starting to get more and more of the "do you know what's happened to editor xxxx or publisher xxxx" or "where do you advise that I send my manuscript for publication" message from strangers.

A lot of my incoming mail is spam. Spam is a constant thorn in my side which I've alternately ignored or raged about, as most of you already know. I'm going to try a new spam-filtering system option that Bryan Fullerton set up for Samurai customers. I had originally asked him to take off the old filter since it was filtering out important e-mail that I wanted to see, but this new one looks more forgiving. The main problem I find with spam is that it's intermingled with my regular mail, so sometimes I miss seeing personal e-mails (or worse, accidentally delete them along with the spam).

Today's Poll: Star Wars movie?

How many of you are planning to see Attack of the Clones on opening day? Or even this week? Jeff and I have mixed feelings about this. Phantom Menace was such a resounding disappointment that it's hard to work up any real excitement for another Star Wars movie. On the other hand...it's STAR WARS. :-) Answer in Blatherchat.

Looks like two more Spider-man sequels are coming out, according to Reuters. The next one is scheduled for release on May 7, 2004.

And here's another Reuters story about the Attack of the Clones bootlegs that are already circulating online.

Today's Blatherpic:

I took this photo yesterday morning at the cottage.