My loving husband was kind enough to overnight me my AC adapter while I was in Sacramento, so I was eventually able to access the Internet from my hotel room. Too bad the PTA Convention organizers kept me SO BUSY that by the time I got to my room each night, I was too knackered to log on. I still felt fatigued after finally arriving home on Sunday afternoon... and yesterday, I pretty much spent the day just catching up on home-related business (raffle tickets, bill paying, laundry, etc.) to think too much about this blog.
This is too bad, as I have much to report about the Convention -- the things I learned and the things I got to do. I will get to those in the next few days.
In the meantime, I have a need to RANT. You see, a funny thing happened to my email while I was checking it in my hotel room last week. One minute, I had a bunch of new emails in my Inbox... and the next minute, they were GONE. I wondered if my fingers had slipped on my touchpad, causing a mass delete of new emails. However, I noticed that there was also a phantom email in my Outbox: when I clicked on it, I got an error message telling me that it could not be displayed. And when I tried to delete it, I got an error message telling me it could not be deleted.
That's not all -- if I tried to send any other emails, I discovered that Windows Mail would not send them because the phantom email was blocking them in the queue. (I eventually figured out that I could get around that by using one of my other accounts -- but there are still some people I need to communicate with who won't know that webmaster @ darbypta.com is me, and I wanted my usual identity back.)
So today, I've been trying to deal with the problem, which a Google search revealed is a known issue with Vista's Windows Mail. And the good news is that I managed to get rid of the phantom email. The bad news is that in the process, I somehow managed to decimate HUNDREDS of archived messages I've saved over the last five years, including some important current ones.
So... if you sent me an email last week that I did not reply to, I apologize. And if I contact you asking for a copy of an email you sent me over the last six months, I hope you will understand.
Thanks to everyone who responded to my email plea for help in fundraising for Megan's gym. I managed to meet my quota of raffle ticket sales! Of course, that air conditioner and the scholarships and other items on our wish list will be easier to obtain if the fundraising continues -- so, if you are so moved to help out by purchasing a $5 raffle ticket, please visit the PayPal links here.
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