Course I always get up early and have my alarm set for 5:30 AM in case I sleep late. Since I get up early, I get my best work done before Mr. Sun pops over the horizon. Several times a month I "redirect my emails." By this I mean, the ones that have slipped by AOL's stringent spam eye. That is a simple matter of clicking on the "this is spam" button which sends it to the spam folder which allows me to delete a whole page of trash with one little click on the delete button. But occasionally I like to go in on each one and "unsubscribe". That is a time consumer.
In the first place, most of them were never subscribed to in the first place. Remember back when "junk mail" was the rage? I used to keep a box by the door and toss it in there to be burned or shredded since I could not throw it in the trash because it had my name, address, telephone number, birthday and second child's information all over it. I get very little junk mail nowdays, but the computer is full of it!
But sometimes I notice that the spam folder is becoming unmanageable so I start through and read them, sort of, but not very closely. I can tell you, if I were to order all this stuff, I would need to be a very tall man, with a heaving bosom, a flat stomach, small penis, wrinkles, long eyelashes, full lips, flowing hair, shapely legs with varicose veins, in need of birth control, and suffering from erectile dysfunction! This tells me that they have not researched me very well. That being said, I start reading until I come to the "unsubscribe" button.
Now they want me to give them my email address that I want to unsubscribe from. Excuse me! This one. And now, why do I want to unsubscribe? Because I never subscribed in the first place. Would I like to change my settings? No, I don't think so. What year did my father die? Damn! This is harder then I thought!
So when this is all done, I hear my mailbox click. Oh, look! A letter from them telling me how much they are going to miss me. Won't I please reconsider? This is much like the "do not call list" that I update on a regular basis both on the land line and the cell phone. Needless to say that does not mean you will not get phone calls from political parties, surveys, religious organizations, charities, off shore drilling rigs and the occasional scam to tell me that my darling grand daughter has been arrested, and I need to wire $15,000 to a bank in Tiawan to secure her release here in town.
But, on a lighter note, it is shaping up to be a great day! Off to breakfast with the church people, then in to work with the step daughter, then home for what ever reason I always return here. The moon on Thursday night was huge and beautiful before it was covered by the clouds. Last night I could not even find it! That troubles me cause I thought I knew where it was.
Have a good one and remember that every cloud has a silver lining!
