so, i know most people hate AOL, but i love them. i love all of the people who work there, this one woman in particular.
see, i save all my e-mails. well, i don’t save all the junk mail, but i save all of my correspondence. years and years of it – since 1995, to be exact. right now i have 11,179 incoming save e-mails and 7,300 sent e-mails. i have always been afraid of losing these archived e-mails, because they’re a journal of sorts. sometimes there are practical things i need to remember, but mostly they’re good for remembering the emotion of a time in my life. and there have been plenty of those in the past ten years.
anyway, after the whole re-installation of the hard drive, there were suddenly NO SAVED E-MAILS. i panicked quite a bit about this, and found this out right before going camping on saturday. while camping, B. kept assuring me that the e-mails were definitely here on my computer somewhere.
i believed him, but i also knew that he can SOUND totally convincingly reassuring, but that doesn’t necessarily make it so.
but he was right.
i called AOL,and the nice woman talked me through the SECRET STEPS towards reinstating all my e-mails. at first it didn’t work and i had to re-start my computer,and while we waited for that to happen i asked her if this was going to work and she said she was 85% sure it would. that gave me confidence, at the same time making me leery…but then we tried it again, and THERE THEY WERE!
So, today is a good day. computer-wise, anyway.
i’m ready for all the mosquitos to die now. in addition to the thousands of bites i had from camping, i got a bunch more sitting outside for a few minutes last night. enough already.
camping – we mountain-biked, for one and a half hours. i didn’t do so bad. i almost fell a few times, but managed to stay upright somehow. it’s such an intense thing to do; my heart was beating harder than it ever has. it would be good to do it once a month. we also kayaked and hiked. we were at the jim edgar panther creek park again, and there was one other couple at the primitive campsite, but they left after the first night, and we never heard them anyway.
i did hear coyotes in the middle of the night, and they sounded kind of hysterical. also owls, and birds and other nighttime nature noises. i love sleeping right ou there under the starts listening to all that real nature, instead of being forced to listen to my sound machine. actually, if i took my sound machine camping, then i could hear the sounds of the ocean, and i could pretend i was camping at the ocean. but then again, there’s no power at the primitive campsites, so i’ll just have to stick with the real nature sounds.
OR i could go camping by the ocean. now that would be ideal.
we had blackberry cobbler one night. B. bought a dutch oven, in which you can cook basically anything. we actually had a bunch of stuff that you normally wouldn’t think of when camping, like filet mignon cooked on the grill. no hot dogs and hamburgers this time. if we camp again, how would B. ever top the meals he made this time?
the only thing missing was s’mores. actually, he had some leftover marshmallows, and graham crackers, so i had a sm. it was tasty, and mollie the dog ate some of mine, even though B. claimed that she never ate marshmallows. well sure, if they’re not toasted and delicious.
i have to do some homework now. i hope your week is going well.
i still want to camp all the time. i still don’t know how i’m going to achieve that.
ok then,
grace outside at panera where at least it’s outside although there are way too many people sitting around.