Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

My email seems to have mostly sorted itself out, I think, but I'm not entirely convinced I'm seeing everything. There still seem to be missing posts in mailing list threads (which I can check but haven't gotten around to), and of course I worry that personal mail may occasionally be dropped, which is harder to ascertain unless I get a "why haven't you answered my email?" message that does get through. I get enough mail that I figure I must be getting most of it, maybe all; I wish I could feel certain. I'm not getting all my LiveJournal notification email, but that's a known problem and might not be my ISP's fault. Again, I'm getting most of it.

Although I dislike web-based mail (or GUI mail clients in general), I think it's time for me to give GMail a shot if an invite code comes my way[just got one]. I've been hearing good things about it, and hey, maybe I'll be able to stand it, maybe I'll be able to trust it, maybe I'll be able to configure it or hack an alternate interface so that it works more like something I already like, I dunno. It's worth trying, and I figure I can provide beta-tester feedback (it's still beta, right?) from the point of view of someone with, well, my tastes.

My cell phone crashes occasionally -- locks up and becomes unresponsive to the keypad or the power button, so that I have to yank the battery to un-wedge it. Sometimes this happens as I'm attempting to answer an incoming call, in which case I at least know there was a call (and should have the number of the caller), but sometimes I pick up the phone and find it stuck and have no idea how long it's been that way. And any attempts to reach me during that time are unrecorded. (The other problem is that I sometimes run out of prepaid airtime -- I think I've got fourteen minutes left right now -- and the cell phone stops working until I can scrape together funds for a phone card again. Separate problem, but hey, it's part of the reliability-of-reachability equation, right?)

Snailmail mostly works but I do get the occasional envelope addressed to a different house, different street, or different side of town, so there's that chance that some of my mail winds up in the wrong place as well (the only piece I know for sure went missing was a Christmas card of a friend, with a photo of her children attached -- it never turned up). Of course, if I'm away from home for a few days, I don't see it right away...

And telepathy has always been a rather hit-and-miss thing for me -- enough to be interesting, never reliable enough to be useful as a means of establishing contact at a distance. So if you're trying to get ahold of me lately, just be aware that I've got a handful of communication problems these days.