  Hal has turned me into a freak!  Okay,  I have a mildly obsessive complusive side,  I admit that.  I even worry a little bit that it will get worse and worse as I get older and older until I am washing and washing my hands fifty times a day and re-
alphabetizing and re- alphabetizing my CD over and over.  Anyway,  Hal used to give me a hard time because I had a tendency to accumulate e- mails in my MS mail Inbox.  Sometimes I would have like 2200 items in my Inbox with 900 or so unread ( let me explain here that I have preview so I can see the first few lines of e- mail messages without opening them.  So if I can glean the essence of the message without opening it,  then I do/ did)  Anyway,
 I finally swept my box clean,  and now I am a freak about zeroing it out all the time.  It's unhealthy.  I live in fear that I will return to the dark days of multiple messages stacking up and stacking up and stacking up. until,  finally,  I am living in a house full of magazines and newspapers and spent fast food bags and junk mail and bulk food purchases from Sams Club so that finally I have to cut pathways just to get from room to room and the only thing in the house that is not dirty is the clean-
ass sink where I wash my hands over and over and over until they are chapped and bleed justifying the medication I so clearly need ( only to take it obsessively -  twice a day,  ten and ten,  but after food,  so I will have some bread before each one,  but then I must toast it,  but only slightly and no butter or margarine unless it's Friday)
 Okay,
 gotta go arrange my sock drawer.
