When I switched over to the MacBook I lost a lot of email. Actually I lost it all… a whole two years worth. After a couple of recent near misses (more like omens) I take regular backups of everything but one way or another, this time my email folder melted and with it went every single piece of electronic correspondence of the last two years or so.
The funny thing is, it’s not really that much of a disaster. At first I though it was… and then I realised that it wasn’t. And it isn’t.
The only things I’m a bit sad to have lost are the numerous emails to and from The Shrig which were always funny, the replies that I got from Doug Allen and Gary Leib when I contacted them out of the blue and, get this… all of my $P@|\/|. I was saving all of that junk and going to make it into some kind of epic prose poem mash-up. The highlight was an absolutely inspired (if they weren’t automatically generated) spam name that still makes me laugh. albatros anton.
Anyway, I’ve fixed my email account (agaaain) so if you sent me something and it bounced, sorry. And of course my virgin junk folder is filling up already. I might even have some material to rival the mighty albatros anton. Someone has already referred to me as ‘Wayfaring Tree’. How they ever came to know my nickname I’ll never know, but there you go.