whining

[chhotii]

I don't know why Eudora won't send or receive mail using Ed's account on HMS's new e-mail server. Eudora is not nice enough to tell me what the error might be. Being a Mac user, obviously all I need to know is "it didn't work, (you worthless inferior being)." Mac programmers mostly have the attitude that hey, we can skip all that work involved in presenting error messages, because users can't handle that information anyway. And nothing ever goes wrong, right? And if something did go wrong, it's probably the user's fault anyway, so they deserve to suffer.

The Help Desk at HMS will not help. They say, "oh, off campus... He can use Web Mail. If he really wants to use a POP client, here's the URL for the documentation. And if it doesn't work, tough!"

So in the course of resetting Ed's Eudora to use the old server, I missed the start of step aerobics. Which would have been the closest thing to fun that I was going to have today. Fun in a rather spartan way. Good for stress relief, not as good as strangling the help desk folks at HMS and gunning down the Eudora programmers, but better than nothing. Now I have to think of something else to do for exercise. The exercise equipment in the fitness center is all old and wonky, so I can't deal with that right now, and it's cold outside, can't cope with walking to the gym either. Have run out of cope.

Delaying dealing with the workout issue (let alone any e-mail issues) by planting head in LJ, to catch up on gossip. Not a stress relief today, as I find a confirmation and a reminder that someone else on suspects, Boston-area is throwing a party on Halloween. The first time I get off my duff in over a year and follow up on the "gee Pondscumme is such a great house for hosting parties" idea, someone else grabs my date after I post. Not holding this against t, maybe she got excited about the idea of hosting a party before seeing my suspects post. But getting all paranoid that everyone will go to t's. Hey, she's got the hot tub.

Hot Tub, mmmmmmmm...

Haven't been in a hot tub in... Long enough. Consider, for a moment, cutting my own party for t's hot tub. Oh, wait, W's party is when... tomorrow? With a hot tub. *glee* Must remember to drink fluids this time, so I can manage to actually sit in the water without getting too faint.

Anyway, about the party: RSVP's: through e-mail, 3 definites, 1 maybe, 2 "we'll try to get there when we get off work... at midnight"; through e-mail, 1 definite and 1 "hmm I would feel strange if I didn't come". Counting the definites as 1 each, the wishy-washies as .5 each and the folks who get off work at midnight as .25 each, so, far, 5.5 attendees expected. If I say "surely more people will come, they just don't RSVP", then I set myself up for disappointment, made worse by the fact that I will have bought way too much food and drink. If I only expect 5.5 people, there won't be much food or drink there. This is the advantage of the potluck format. The amount of consumables scales, roughly, to the attendence.

Damnit, next time I will do potluck. I don't care if I'm not popular. A few people like me, and those people matter. But social lack of ease makes it hard if I have to feed these people.

Wonder if it's too late to late to declare that it's a potluck?

Comments

[quietann.livejournal.com]

we'll be at yours ;) email me privately for reasons :)

Many people will show up. and even if they don't, it will be fun (plus, for me, since I'll be wearing a GIGANTIC WEDDING DRESS, a less crowded party will be better anyway!)

see you in the hot tub :)

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

Is this the wedding dress from the clothing swap, or a different gigantic wedding dress?
can't wait to see...

[quietann.livejournal.com]

the one from the clothing swap! But I will be wearing my huge crinoline to make it even more extreme, and a veil, too!

(BTW, we figured out that the dress was worn by Amelia's friend Morgan, who recently moved to Las Vegas. She hasn't been married for quite a while...)