Happiness

Happiness or that contented feeling that makes you just want to smile comes from some of the strangest things sometimes.

Today, I'm keeping busy.  I'm keeping negative thoughts at bay.  Each time a negative thought tries to enter my mind, I intervene with a thought of love - for myself.  It works.  Try it.

Anyway, so as I am either keeping my mind empty and open or full of love thoughts I looked down at my little note pad.  I always have a note pad... for notes, for thoughts, for writing down how far I run or how much I ate or to list the things I absolutely need to get done...passwords that I will never remember to websites I rarely or never will again visit...

My current notepad (I go through them often) has a bunch of trees or leaves on it.  Well, trees that look like leaves standing up.  It says "Sasquatch - Leave nothing but tracks" on the back.  On the front, there's a little box that says "Sasquatch Sighting - Can you spot him?"  I've looked before and haven't seen him.  I pretty much gave up.  Maybe they forgot to actually print the Sasquatch on my particular notepad copy.

I had to smile today when I looked at the notepad, just for a short amount of time, and saw that Sasquatch climbing on one of those leaf-trees.  It made me happy.  I found the Sasquatch.  I wonder what else I will find today?  Something good, I'm sure...

The problem with email

What a wonderful world we live in where we can get texts, email, IM, phone calls and, of course, see each other in person.  It's a world of constant communication and access.  Woohoo!  Yay!  I can stay connected 24 fucking hours of the day!!!!  Ah, Ugh...  Makes me tired just thinking about it.

So... the problem with email.  And yes, it could just be MY problem with email...let me slowly LEAD into it for your reading pleasure...

The point of email is to share information with another person... via email.  The trick to email is to make sure that if you want a response, to make sure to include a question in the email that requires a response.  OR you could say in the email, "please respond" or "I would like your opinion" or "Hey, write me back"... or "you're a real fucker".  That last one, well... I wouldn't suggest it.

Now, if you are like me (God help you, really), you spend time on the email conveying the proper message.  You make sure to double check it so that you haven't said something that you didn't mean to say. You read it to yourself to check the tone of it.  Maybe you spell check it.  Sometimes I forget that.  And then, the moment arrives and you hit "send".  Yay!  It's sent.  A response is surely on its way to you momentarily.  Smile.

So, here's the problem... (yes, I admit.... may be just be my problem).  Responses to email DO NOT always come "momentarily".  SOMETIMES, the question in the email gets missed and doesn't get answered in the reply.  SOMETIMES, BELIEVE IT OR NOT - the email doesn't even get answered. 

And what's the problem with that?  Well, in this world of constant communication, depending on the email recipient - vague answers or non-answers to email - can cause... problems...  I always picture Mark Zuckerman in the Facebook movie - the scene at the end where he asks to "friend" a woman and then continuously presses the refresh button - waiting for a response....  crazymaking... abso-fucking-lutely crazymaking...

Yes, there's much more I can add to this blog about the problems with email.  And, I must say, I have to see the humor in it - to prevent the crazymaking...  Gotta laugh at yourself if you are willing to stare at a computer screen for  an indefinite amount of time JUST to receive an email...  And now emails come to your phone too.  God help us... I don't even want to get into the problems with THAT.

So, I leave you now.  I'm stepping AWAY from the computer.  I'm not even going to CHECK my email.  I just don't want to know...  There are so many other things to be doing.  Gotta do them.  Fuck the damn email.