Things that don’t bother me anymore
14 mar 06
Unread feeds in my feedreader. I’m only one person, and I really can’t read everything every day. Sometimes I even manually mark huge groups of things as read. I know, I’m bad. But I don’t need to read every question on Ask Metafilter or every post on Gizmodo.
The smell of cleaning products. When you live in a tiny apartment, and you decide to clean your bathroom, the whole place smells like you decided to clean your bathroom. Luckily I have that sweet Buttercream scent to mask it a bit.
That I don’t get any mail. I haven’t even gotten junk mail for something like five days. But, no cookies from Mom with a crisp 20$ bill? Eh, it’s okay. I can deal.
james / 15 mar 2006 / 8:52 a.m.
Someone has mailciously been signing me up for basically every offer you could think of (and many you wouldn’t) on the Internet. Unfortunately this is all opt-in stuff that gets you a sales call (had 5 calls in one night). I am getting about 50 pieces of spam a day now (i used to get 0). I am…enraged.
Twas a sad day when I had to visit my email archive and found all those unreads. I had to spend about 30 mins goign through and checking all my emails as being read. It’s still not as bad as when I discovered that not having all my music files not in the Artist - Title format drives me nuts and I wasted most of a Saturday fixing them.
james / 15 mar 2006 / 11:59 a.m.
re: Mail, not email :-)
Sorry, I feel abused and needed to reach out to someone. I’m sure my snail mail box will be spammed by the evil direct mail people as most of these queries included my physical address, phone number, AND email address. Ugh.
tamara / 16 mar 2006 / 11:25 a.m.
Mail? I like it when the main doesn’t require money (a.k.a. bills) in order to receive it.
cha cha / 15 mar 2006 / 4:17 a.m.
well the last point about not getting any mails is actually quite scary. It almost makes me feel non-existant. So I go ahead and subscribe to some more sites…..