When I got my laptop last fall, I immediately got the Microsoft Office suite. I really wanted a legitimate writing program like Word, I loves me some spreadsheets so Excel was a must, and bundled with them was Outlook. I figured I could get all three of my main email addresses in there and be able to check all three at once. And then I balked and I ( Read more... )

The Crazy Lenten Diet is not the only thing I do during Lent. It's just the most famous thing. I have several other Lent-related activities, one of which is going through my email. This is another thing I've done for a number of years, but this year I've made quite a bit of progress, likely in part to hardly sending emails any longer. Consider ( Read more... )

A while back, Gmail went and redid itself. I have a Gmail account as my professional email, but it's not my primary. I mainly check it at work. This goes back to when I didn't have a work email I could use (I now share a general mailbox with several others, though I'm the primary user); if I needed to contact the guys that are rarely in the ( Read more... )

Fridays are when I check one of my older email accounts. I have several of them; one I check several times a day, one a few times a week, and then this last one. Up until a few weeks ago, the only things I expected there were Borders emails. Back when I still worked for the company, my boss forced us all to sign up, since one of our goals was to ( Read more... )

This was not what I came online to write about, but it's the news of the moment ( Read more... )

I tend to do a lot of thinking when I clean--either that, or I sing, but I've been doing that less and less lately. Somehow while I was vacuuming today I started thinking about the Internet Movie Database and how I was first introduced to it by one of the many Kevins (this one Little Kevin) from college. It reminded me that IMDb.com has been ( Read more... )

I met up with my grandmother today so she'd have a second opinion on the car she's looking to buy. Realize her current vehicle is purple, bright purple, and it's sort of become her signature. People know she's coming because they can see her from a block away. Anyway, one of the things she wanted in a new-ish car was that it was purple, and she ( Read more... )

My grandmother called the other day. Her vehicle, which is approximately 15 years old, is having issues, to the point where she's looking at getting something newer. She found something she likes at a place in Naperville, and since I have a familiarity with the town, she asked if I might accompany her. Um, well, I guess. So, tomorrow, I get to ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning to three emails, all from people I know. One was Laura, checking up on me, seeing as I'd said I'd keep her posted on things for this weekend and then never did. Bad me. No cookie. I was really tired after all the family stuff, and now school starts, so in a way it was nice to be able to chill out this weekend. Even my ( Read more... )

Around the time of the duck sighting, I came online and checked my email. There was a message from a friend of mine whom I haven't heard from in a while. The subject line was weird, "Re:hi," but I wasn't so concerned about that. Except, when I opened the email, it was clearly spam. Trust me, my friend is not going to be emailing me about ( Read more... )