The weather is bad and I am using this as an opportunity to consolidate my e-mail accounts down to a few. So a friend gave me a G-Mail account and now I have 6 invites to share with someone who wants a G-Mail account.
If you’re interested in an invite, hit me up via a reply and we’ll get you all squared away 🙂
The experience was simply majestic. We were floating on a hot air balloon 600 meters (don’t know the US measurement conversion, but imagine about 300 of me stacked on top of each other)
We had to help get the balloon ready to be air-borne, and we had to help pack it away when we were done. It was a really nice experience. And thanks to Robin who got it for me as a birthday present.
For those interested, here are some pictures for you to view.
The video clips will come along over the course of the next days and weeks, especially since i have to figure out how to get them off my DV camera into my over-loaded hard drive using the Firewall cable. But I will figure something out. I usually do! 🙂
a day after the balloon ride and it was still amazing! i liked it so much! i will hope to have some pictures and video for you over the course of the weekend.
Ever since Stevie cheated me out of a hot air balloon ride in summer 2000 (I remember the date, but I don’t hold a grudge), I have waited for the day.
If it gets cancelled tomorrow, I shall be destroyed. The stakes are high 😉
Forgot that IBM owed me SEK 4.000 (US$530), so that was a nice treat…especially since I only had 2000 to last me for two weeks. Not that I would have been starting without it, but it now means that I don’t have to dip into my US funds to live for the next couple of weeks.
Yay me! Time to spend it all on booze (joking…kind of)
Dear Mary Beth,
What a treat it is to receive a message from you twice a month asking for campaign contributions. I duly note that with each passing month, parting with my cash is “more critical than ever before.” So you can imagine the sheer euphoria when not only do I get your message from your automatically-generated e-mail processing machine, but when I get the same exact message with different borders and formatting from the DNC website as well.
Having gladly contributed in the past (several times), I can appreicate that presidential campaigns are now a billion-dollar industry. However, the e-mail overload hasn’t energized my comment; rather it is curbed my enthusiam.
Since your systems are not able to seperate out requests for political contributions from general information updates, offer alternatives ways to make an non-monetary impact, and just send too many messages asking for money, I have decided to remove myself from the DNC and Kerry-Edwards mailing list.
I am sure me and my limited contributions don’t make much of a difference, as your team has probably learned from spammers that the responses usually justify the financial outlays. But I’d like to think that a little more focus on encouraging non-financial activism would have resulted in financial activism by default (how many times have people said “well I cannot volunteer personally, but this contribution ought to cover it…”?)
So while you have my support, you won’t see anymore of my money until you begin to practise responsible e-mail practises. Go Kerry.
Most Annoyed,
Rodney
Today begins the audit. Last week was really crappy in terms of time taken for audit prep, so I am hoping that now that they are on-site, I will have respite for a few days to get some other tasks done.
Let the good times roll