Lightning struck my home recently and the power surge resulted in my computer crashing. I lost a small file that kept track of several dozen emails (out of the well over 4000) that i had received in the last two months and that were still awaiting a reply from me. These emails were ones that I needed to respond to, but just not urgently, so my practice has been to accumulate them until a particular day when I don’t have much else to do. Alas, in two months, such a day had not occurred. more…