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What shall I do for a weekend?
While the theory of writing the day's blog post at the end of the day when I know what I've done is fine as a plan, in practice my brain seems to wind down too much by then to remember consistently. But whatevs, the biggest principle I have in life and ShIP is "don't invent rules for the game that you can't win." So I post when I post. I cook with the Produce of My Estates when I feel like it and don't get bent out of shape when I don't. One "rule" that I'm strongly endorsing in my own life (with no judgment for anyone else) is "use the good stuff" (h/t Ursula Vernon). I'm eating every meal on the good china (well, ok, it's my only china). No scarfing the leftovers out of the tupperware you nuked them in. Since I'm cooking enough to run a dishwasher load every day, the same resources get used no matter how many dishes get dirty. I'm brewing up my work-afternoon tea in the heirloom silver teapot. And while I'm not dressing *up* to "go to the office" (since I never did in the first place) I do have a firm principle to *dress*, though the vagaries of my home heating mean that I generally start the morning in my fluffy pink robe over the office clothes. I find that clothing helps cue my brain for the activity I'm focusing on.
The role of the ShIP in enlarging my social life continues. Yesterday my "we each live alone so let's check in on each other every day" fb group did a coffee break zoom gettogether and decided to make it a regular Friday morning thing. Then another chat in the evening. I keep thinking of suggesting to my dad & brothers that we try setting up a regular zoom chat, but trying to organize our schedules might be tricky.
During the coffee break chat, Denise mentioned that she's already gone through the last jar of orange marmalade I gave her, so for my lunchtime bike ride I swung by and dropped off (safe distancing!) a jar of the Gervase Markham marmalade this time, with a bag of cinnamon apple chips (from last year's apple crop -- I apparently have hit on the trick of making freeze-dried apple slices without having a freeze-dryer).
I'm continuing to struggle with my earthlink email (not sure if I've mentioned that here -- I griped about it on facebook). In short: earthlink decided I needed to change to a "more secure" password (they're probably not wrong), but having done so, when I went to update the email apps on my laptop and phone with the new password, evidently Apple has decided that earthlink doesn't do imap. And trying to use imap settings forced into a pop template only returns error messages.
So I had to reset my accounts for pop, but I'd also untagged automated spam flagging at the earthlink server because it was having far too many false positives. So now I'm drowning in a couple hundred spam emails a day that I have to manually delete on both devices. My workaround currently is deleting the iPhone earthlink account and setting up the separate earthlink app (which *is* imap).
But in the mean time, my desktop mail program has changed its mind and, while it's receiving mail, it refuses to *send* mail from my earthlink address. I should note that many of the annoying features in this process have appeared spontaneously at times when I haven't changed anything. I think part of it is various bits of information having propagation delays at both ends, but it makes troubleshooting almost impossible since I can't get immediate feedback on what works or what breaks something new.
And many (but not all) the emails sent from my earthlink account that had been sitting in my "sent" folder on the laptop have disappeared. Which I discovered when trying to trace some of my recent podcast correspondence and found them missing. Sometimes I move business emails from the "sent" folder to the topic-specific folder to have them all in one place, but not consistently.
I'm wondering if something has happened in the apple/earthlink interface that is simply irrevocably broken. My earthlink email is the oldest one I have, but it has periodic issues. Like: evidently some systems randomly decide it's insecure and decide not to propagate it. I have a bunch of other email addresses (one through apple, several through my own web domain, I have a gmail account, in theory I can have free att addresses because they're my provider). But the earthlink address is the one I've given out most generally and it would be a real pain to phase it out.
The other possibility (which I dread) is that the desktop mail app needs upgrading. My suspicion is based on the regularity with which it's been spontaneously crashing lately. (Several times a day. Glancing at the icon, it is currently closed.) So before I try any troubleshooting on that end, I need to figure out a way to back up all my archived email files. Such is my life.
But I need to sign off because I have an interview to record!
The role of the ShIP in enlarging my social life continues. Yesterday my "we each live alone so let's check in on each other every day" fb group did a coffee break zoom gettogether and decided to make it a regular Friday morning thing. Then another chat in the evening. I keep thinking of suggesting to my dad & brothers that we try setting up a regular zoom chat, but trying to organize our schedules might be tricky.
During the coffee break chat, Denise mentioned that she's already gone through the last jar of orange marmalade I gave her, so for my lunchtime bike ride I swung by and dropped off (safe distancing!) a jar of the Gervase Markham marmalade this time, with a bag of cinnamon apple chips (from last year's apple crop -- I apparently have hit on the trick of making freeze-dried apple slices without having a freeze-dryer).
I'm continuing to struggle with my earthlink email (not sure if I've mentioned that here -- I griped about it on facebook). In short: earthlink decided I needed to change to a "more secure" password (they're probably not wrong), but having done so, when I went to update the email apps on my laptop and phone with the new password, evidently Apple has decided that earthlink doesn't do imap. And trying to use imap settings forced into a pop template only returns error messages.
So I had to reset my accounts for pop, but I'd also untagged automated spam flagging at the earthlink server because it was having far too many false positives. So now I'm drowning in a couple hundred spam emails a day that I have to manually delete on both devices. My workaround currently is deleting the iPhone earthlink account and setting up the separate earthlink app (which *is* imap).
But in the mean time, my desktop mail program has changed its mind and, while it's receiving mail, it refuses to *send* mail from my earthlink address. I should note that many of the annoying features in this process have appeared spontaneously at times when I haven't changed anything. I think part of it is various bits of information having propagation delays at both ends, but it makes troubleshooting almost impossible since I can't get immediate feedback on what works or what breaks something new.
And many (but not all) the emails sent from my earthlink account that had been sitting in my "sent" folder on the laptop have disappeared. Which I discovered when trying to trace some of my recent podcast correspondence and found them missing. Sometimes I move business emails from the "sent" folder to the topic-specific folder to have them all in one place, but not consistently.
I'm wondering if something has happened in the apple/earthlink interface that is simply irrevocably broken. My earthlink email is the oldest one I have, but it has periodic issues. Like: evidently some systems randomly decide it's insecure and decide not to propagate it. I have a bunch of other email addresses (one through apple, several through my own web domain, I have a gmail account, in theory I can have free att addresses because they're my provider). But the earthlink address is the one I've given out most generally and it would be a real pain to phase it out.
The other possibility (which I dread) is that the desktop mail app needs upgrading. My suspicion is based on the regularity with which it's been spontaneously crashing lately. (Several times a day. Glancing at the icon, it is currently closed.) So before I try any troubleshooting on that end, I need to figure out a way to back up all my archived email files. Such is my life.
But I need to sign off because I have an interview to record!