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Post details: Okay, which is worse?

05/12/08

06:55:22 am, by

, 433 words

Categories: Half-Butt Postings, Monday before Post Nothing Tuesdays!

Okay, which is worse?

Last week, the "bus mail server" (the one that sends and receives e-mail) decided to go down for a few days... therefore, I got no mail sent to the addresses I monitor from the busly domain.

That said, I still got dozens of e-mails every morning thanks to torontoghosts.org, ontarioghosts.org, psican.org, imuc.org, uppercanadianheritage.com, and a couple of others I look after.

When the "busly" mail is filtering in, I usually get about twenty or thirty e-mails every eight hours... mostly, honestly, ghost stuff... then spam... then mailgroups... then "personal correspondence"... then "busly" stuff.

Yup, pretty much every morning, after I delete the three or four spammy messages that defeat my anti-spam measures, I usually have about seven-to-ten e-mails to answer... and maybe three-to-five "mailgroups" to read...

...but every so often, like this morning... nothing.

I get the spam so I know my mail's working. I get receipts too... another indicator that all is well...

...but no busly stuff (odd)... no personal stuff (odder)... no ghostly stuff (extremely odd).

It happens every so often... and I almost always turn to Sue and say, Nothing new to report... not that I'm complaining! and I mean it...

If you're wondering why this is worthy of a blog post, it's like going to a main street in a small or medium sized town at 3:30pm and finding it empty. Not totally unusual, but not normal by the same token.

I almost wish, just to add atmosphere to things, a graphic of a tumble weed would "blow" past my mail program, standing open... mocking me with it's lack of new stuff to deal with...

...but by the same token, it's nice to have a "day off" of sorts... nothing pressing...

You ever had a "no mail might be good mail" day... or am I alone in this?

Anyway, please remember... tomorrow is POST NOTHING TUESDAYS which, of course, translates into, I plan to take a day off... but if something comes along, I'm gonna have to leap in!

...so for now, I'll see you on Wordless Wednesday... or sooner... heck, with this "massive amount of mail", how can I not have some time to think of new posts for Tuesday?!?!

Addendum: According to today's 24 magazine... my horoscope says...

If you hook up with others who have your best interest at heart, you can make those dreams come true.

...take this as you will...

Time Is Running Short on our Dream!

Click here for details... 'cuz we need some sorta help... and maybe you or someone you know can assist us with our dream...

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Comment from: Penelope Anne [Visitor]

· http://cafeendofuniverse.blogspot.com/

Unless it is just after I have moved or changed email, I like to have an occassional no mail day, I love the no crisis phone call days too. Dang reminds me I need to make a phone call or two or three. Draggin' Allen to the doctor for his appointment this afternoon too.
Such fun, are you stubborn about going to the doctor?

Permalink 05/12/08 @ 13:57

Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

Hey Penelope Anne... Find a man who isn't! :)

Permalink 05/12/08 @ 19:44

Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items and whatnot as London was removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try and appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very young and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we failed... and the youngest has reached an age where she is more cynical than much else about the world which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying to get the bus and be far more realistic... but I don't mind (I actually enjoy,) venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

Thanks to those who were/are "Busly Dream" enthusiasts... I suppose that our buses now will be single-deck with the letters "TTC" emblazoned on them... but this blog will live!

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