John Henry ([info]sir_cat) wrote,
@ 2008-07-13 02:10:00
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Thursday rain; Hotmail sucks.
1.10" of rainfall in my gauge Thursday evening from the biggest single-day storm in 10 years here in the Valley.

Officially, 0.84" fell at Sky Harbor airport (last YEAR's total was only 0.77").

Other amounts around the Valley ranged from 0.51" to 3.09". It was a good storm, although it did cause a lot of localized flooding and other headaches for folks. If we get a couple more of those this year, we'd make a major dent in our drought.

(July 1st I think it was, I had a Trace in my gauge.)

Only bad part for me was the fact that my passenger side windshield wiper actually FLEW OFF while I was driving on the 101 freeway on the way to watch the weekly soccer game. I couldn't shut my wipers off 'cause I needed the driver's side to see out my windshield. So every return swipe, it was almost a fingernails-down-the-chalkboard sound. (I just sent shivers up your spine, didn't I?)

After the game, I ended up going to a Wal-Mart a couple miles away to buy a replacement.

*Sigh* Oh, well.

~~~

Hotmail sucks.

You may or may not know, but they've decided to upgrade Hotmail to Windows Live Hotmail. It requires a browser upgrade for me, that my computer isn't capable of. I'm about 3 operating systems behind, not to mention browser versions.

I can't even read my emails in either of my accounts any longer. For the moment, or at least the other day, I can still send them, but I don't know how long that will last.

If any of you have either of my Hotmail accounts as the primary email address, switch it to Yahoo. (It's in my profile.) If you don't have either of my Hotmail addy's, don't worry about it. MSN Messenger still seems to be working.

I realize that my computer is 10 years old. Windows 95, and IE 5.something. But haven't these idiots ever heard of "backwards compatibility"? Especially for those of us who simply can't afford to buy a new bloody computer, recession or not?

*SIGH* :/


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[info]setdragonfriend
2008-07-13 01:09 pm UTC (link)
Do you want to try Gmail? I don't know if that will be any better, but I can send you an invite. If I remember correctly, Hotmail doesn't allow a program like Outlook to get your mail remotely, but I know Gmail does. May think about that, if you have Outlook or Outlook Express, rahter than trying to get your browser to operate web-mail programs. Sucks, yeah. But the offer is there if you want it. (Gmail is by invite only.)

Think I'll trade you weather. It's been about 80F or so highs in Seattle but it's dry as a bone. My allergies are making me suffer like nothing else right now. We're supposed to get clouds Monday, but I doubt precip. is in the forecast. Reeks. Rain should go a long way to keeping me from baking to death inside my apartment like I have the past few days. I've been too sick to go out and since I've got western-facing windows, the sun heats this place up like an oven. I can't open my windows because my downstairs neighbors smoke and you know how I feel about tobacco terrorists. Not to mention the noise from the major street outside. And a bus stop. And the fact that people think it's okay to shout at other people across the street as long as there's light in the sky even though it's only 0530....

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[info]sir_cat
2008-07-14 08:45 am UTC (link)
I've got Yahoo, so it's all good. Just a pain in the ass that I had to send an email to nearly everyone on my contact list to let them know, and I got back 12 "could not deliver" notices that I can't even read now. I don't know who didn't get the email. I've had 2 responses to my Yahoo addy, my Dad and a distant cousin. Another distant cousin replied back to Hotmail, but I can't read it.

If you ever do move down here, BE ABSOLUTELY SURE that where ever you move to has A/C AND that you can afford it. That's on average 80% of your electric bill here. A friend's daughter is on Section 8, and needed my help to transport a futon and something else recently. (I'm the only person she knows with a pickup, so they always call me for stuff like that.) I don't know for sure if her apartment didn't have A/C, or if she just wasn't running it, but it wasn't very comfortable in there while I was putting the futon together.

You think 80 is bad without A/C, regardless of what the humidity may have been? We're lucky if our morning low drops into the 80's. It'll get up to 90-105 with 20-30% humidity on a typical summer afternoon during the monsoon. It's great when the rain is actually coming down, but as soon as it stops, it's a sauna.

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[info]quotamour
2008-07-14 01:09 am UTC (link)
It was some rain!!

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[info]sir_cat
2008-07-14 08:30 am UTC (link)
That 3.09" wasn't far from you.

Had another 0.06" here Sunday evening.

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[info]may_lyn
2008-07-17 01:28 am UTC (link)
heh, watch out for flying windshield wipers!

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