Slim inbox

My inbox has single digit emails! I try to maintain it below five. I keep the mails that are relevant to my immediate work. So, only two or three mails end up in this category. There are couple of todo items or to be read mails. They stay in the box.

Daily morning I receive around 30 to 40 mails (unsubscribed from unwanted lists). Before reading those mails, I will scan the titles and pick the mails which I dont have to read. That would shrink my new mail list about 15. Out of these 15 mails, 10 would be general info which I would have to scan through and delete. Some of these scanable mails are pretty nice - by reading the subject, I know that I can delete it; so I will delete and start reading, I read till the mail is visible.

The remaining 5 mails might be addressing me to influence my day work. Most of these mails ought to be digested and followed as per the guidelines. One or two might have to be preserved for reference. If I have to preserve them, I will see if I can delete mails from the previous day's stagnant mails (less than 10). Some mails ought to be retained for future requirement, and hence they deserve to be placed in a separate folder.

Having few mails make work simple. Reduces lots of unnecessary searches. If at all searches are to be done, it will be only in the trash :-)

Rotatable heater

As I installed a heater recently, all I can think is about heater. A thought came in the morning while thinking about solar heaters. Instead of fixing the base of such heater, how about allowing the base to rotate.

Think sun flower. If the base can orient itself towards the sun, the sensors will receive maximum sun rays. So, the motor in the base will be receiving feedback from the heat or light from the top layer; this feedback will determine the angle of rotation. At night time, the platform should be turned towards east.

Ya, I should have googled to find if this is already implemented. At times, it is nice to think that we are the first to think about something :-)

Setting an instant heater

After some market research, I narrow down on an instant heater. This is against the normal storage heater what we find in most of the bathrooms.

Instant heater has advantage like providing hot water at the instant instead of requiring to switch on some time before. Also, the water is heated on a need basis opposed to traditional way of heating bulk water even if the need is less.

Also, the instant stuff is very cheap compared to storage heater.
However, the disadvantage is high voltage consumption. Guess this consumption will be compensated to the less amount of heater usage on an overall calculation.

After getting the heater, I was able to assemble the set by myself. Had connected the plug to live, earth, neutral as per the guidance from an electrician. However, the fuse went off when I tried to switch it on. Then the electrician had to come to fix the fuse. Seems like the electrical socket connection in the wall was faulty. After changing the line, the heater worked smooth.

No hassle still then, we are getting hot water at will (not our will, but the EB dept's will).

upgraded the toolkit

Remember, I put my earlier toolkit for sale ... I struck a deal with GA for the same. He is interested in buying it.

Once that is in, I collected requirement details for the toolkit I want to buy. Felt a drill is needed. The drivers were not sufficient.

While shopping for the kit, I found the box with all the tools I was looking for. However the quality was not up to mark. Since I was not impressed, I moved on to buying pieces separately. With this approach, I got good quality equipments. Thou the cost escalated more than the package deal, I was happy to get what I wanted.

The truth

Are we live with a falsehood in this society? Do we pretend and suppress our true feelings, expressions? I think so. At times, I used to think why we have to pretend ourself? Why do we need to maintain a status, dignity, a pseudo-hierarchy ... How about a world without these virtual demarcations and rituals?

While thinking on the other side, that pretension is what we struggled to gain. I feel civilization itself mean to lead a life away from nature, away from being in the true form. Even now we find such ideology - a person from a village who express his/her inner feelings in public is labeled uncivilized.

May be these civilization process is what brought human to the current state.
This leads to the point that falsehood is growth or evolution. hmm .. interesting thought, need to workout further.

disparity

while catching the flight from my city, I called the local taxi guy. This is the taxi we regularly engage as he charges nominally. After dropping at the airport, he happily accepted the 100 bucks I gave.

After getting down from the flight, I moved towards the exit. A placard with my name welcomed me. The man in clean white suite was holding it. He gave a nice, warming smile and took me to a nice car. We had a good discussion about general things. At the drop point, he gave me the bill/receipt. The car agency had swiped 850 bucks from my credit card and I need to formalize it by a signature.

I dont complain about the cost or service etc. I am thinking aloud about the way corporate world function. When a corporate need to fix a solution, it has to pay heavily, right from electricity, phone bills, real estate, construction, printing etc. If such corporate has to survive in such transactions, these amount will have to paid by the customer or buyer.
Wondering what will it be if we strip down many of the pseudo-cost-escalation. We might have better efficient place with less stressful environment.