After eating some lunch, I decided to go through the 153 drafts I had sitting around in WordPress. It didn’t take me long to start judging them by the title alone, and by the time I got to things from last year that I had apparently never reopened after saving it as a draft, well … I just went delete happy. I now only have 19 drafts sitting around in WordPress. Every one of those just needs to be transferred to Livejournal, because they are mostly things only of importance to me or things I decided I really don’t want to share with anyone else. In other words, a bunch of private posts.

Feeling good about getting that done. Now if I can only stick to the rule to never let something sit around in draft form for more than a week, that would be great. In fact, I should never allow myself to save things as a draft, because they rarely, if ever, end up getting posted.

What I should do this afternoon is go through the 640 links I have saved in my Read It Later list. Yeah … 640 links. I imagine I will be doing a lot of skimming and deleting without reading, and at some point I’ll just delete them all without even looking at them. If it was really important or really interesting, I bet I run across it again. I have obviously broken my rule about never letting there be more than 50 links in that list. I really need to stick to that one too.

One day I hope to deal with all the electronic trash cluttering my hard drive. Who am I kidding? One day?! It took me years to collect it all. I’m pretty sure it will take more than one day to deal with it. I think I’ll start by burning stuff off to CD that I know I want to keep, like knitting patterns. I’m embarrassed to tell you how many gigabytes of that kind of stuff I have sitting around on my computer … almost never being looked at or used. Some people horde porn. I horde knitting patterns.

I should probably be doing something else today, rather than sitting here clearing the crud from my digital life, but it has to be done from time to time, and I feel like doing it today. Baking bread can wait until tomorrow.