Friday September 28 2007

Rocky I

Rocky II

Having a run away, so grab ahold and hang on tight. There are ten things going on all at once and I hope I get them all done. After lunch Joe remembered he had a haircut today at 2:30 and has taken off for town. The house is a total mess - bed to change, other laundry to wash and fold, floor needs vacuumed and dishes from yesterday are still needing finished up. A lot of the imperishable groceries are still sitting on the counter to be put away.

Remember that garden wagon I bought a couple of months ago? I finally put it together this morning. There were no instructions with it so I asked Joe's advice on how the washers and bolts went and all he could do was use four letter words about me buying junk from China and how I'd wish I had that $80 some day. He finally said the way I had it looked right. But I like it and it seems very sturdy and solid. So hauled the cat food from the back of the SUV to the shed, then used it to move the flower pots back to the wagon where they set all winter. Cleaned up the rock paved area they sat all summer. I cleaned leaves out of the corners, the steps and the porch, and now the wind is howling and blown them all back. I had a sack of plastic recycling sitting out there to take to the garage, and its scattered all over and the sack totally out of sight.

I need to get pretty well finished with all this because tomorrow is another busy day - mammogram, pick up blood results from Health Fair, get my prescription renewed, meet Judi to get the paintings she brought back from Cody, and go to our Mixed Media monthly painting group meeting from 9:30 until about 4. Then of course Joe will want me home to have dinner on the table by 6. We're going to be able to carpool to the meeting. It's on the Upper Green near The Place. I'll have to be out of here by 7 or 7:30.

The biggest problem I'm trying to deal with today is - remember those 15000 messages I said were sitting on the server? Well they finally sent a email that my mail was about to the quota and I'd have to get rid of some of them. I knew it was happening but hadn't quite figured out what to do about it, because all I could see to do is that you had to click and delete 10 at a time. I had done that once in a while then would give up until another day. And if you're getting 50 or 60 emails a day it didn't change much. I finally asked their tech support -YES!! more tech support - (and this was the second time I inquired - when I asked about this before I was dealing with the receiver problem and they said to wait) - how to purge the entire inbox, and they said the best it could be set on was selecting and deleting 50 at a time. The place to change it was in Preferences, and I didn't find how to get to it until last night. So when I have a few minutes or want to sit down, I sit and delete messages - over and over and over and over. Then, guess what???...... they all go into the trash folder and you have to delete them the same way out of there, or it doesn't take your quota down at all until it is emptied too. Cannot purge it either.

I found the setting that was causing all the trouble while I was reading help and clicking all the buttons. It has a default setting that makes it save a copy of everything that is downloaded into my Outlook Express, so every email has been getting saved on the hughes.net mail for about a year now. And for some reason NOW "its" wanting to download all those backed up messages into outlook express AGAIN. The only way I can figure out how to stop it is get ALL of them out of there. I might have to read more "help", and go into the innards of the thing some more. I might have clicked something and said o.k. that I didn't mean to. I sure don't want to be spending time doing this, and I never will either, so might as well get it over with. So far I got it down to about 8500. When that's done I'll have one more issue to resolve with hughes.net mail program. There are three log in places, maybe more, customer support, mail, and myHughesNet information. All of them are seeming to want a different user name and password in order to log in. It has been driving me insane from the beginning, because every time I went there my password and sometimes even the user name would be WRONG, and I would set another password and it wouldn't like that, and another one and it wouldn't like that. When I went back again I never knew which one was right because none would work. It would tell me the page had expired and wouldn't let me back at all, like I was a hacker. That's why I never went there all this time. So I'm going to have to get that fixed in however many ways there are to do it. Doesn't even make sense, does it - not to me either.

This afternoon I got a call from their tech support I hope will be helpful in the password issue. I have to have the time to sit and go through the steps she had me write down. But I understand how it's working better now.

THEN maybe I can use my new email program which I hear is really nice that came with new new software Microsoft Office 2007 - instead of Outlook Express I will switch to MS Outlook. It has a bunch more doodads in it, but when I tried to switch some time back, there it was downloading 15,000 messages that I'd already gotten - How long would that take??? So its a good thing to be getting it taken care of, just time I don't have. Just for today and tomorrow if I don't get something you sent, send it again in a couple of days. It might have gotten deleted in the frenzy

Why am I sitting here blogging? Because I want to! I'm having a glass of milk and a caramel frosted doughnut and enjoying the quiet for a few minutes .

BTW in case you care to keep up, I wrote up the Rock Springs day in yesterday's blog.