(it's still a spider drink)
Feb. 6th, 2014 01:55 amCalled BFF. His battery situation continues, much to his annoyance. I fear the day when he feels he has to purchase a smartphone. I predict yelling.
Sleep was kinda spotty. Ugh. I'd wanted to hit work early but between the one thing and the other, later sleep won.
I was debating what my tag for horrifying email-related shenanigans would be (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zarhooie, Darkside agrees with you, more or less, because the only reference he could find for "shenaniganry" was UrbanDictionary, and it's his considered opinion that a citation in UrbanDictionary is a point against it being a Real Word) and was first thinking that it could be "exchange you to the circus", but that made very little sense, not even the surreal sense that "$PRODUCT is a verb" does -- but then realized that I had the wrong end of the stick. So now any and all shenanigans are "Outlook not so good".
Outlook is heavy on double-key presses, which makes it less good for someone who likes the keyboard. Search feels like it's missing chunks; I want it to do in folder but not categorized with $CATEGORY, but I think I have yet to manage that syntax. (Either that or it can't, but that would make me sad.) I use a lot of categories and I have a lot of folders. This makes my use case complicated, terrifying, and edge.
There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned romp through brute-force data-mangling in the absence of better tools to make one appreciate life. That was my afternoon with the database. Just before all that started, the noise-canceling headphones that make this sort of thing possible decided to break, in a really dumb way: ( Read more... )
Sleep was kinda spotty. Ugh. I'd wanted to hit work early but between the one thing and the other, later sleep won.
I was debating what my tag for horrifying email-related shenanigans would be (
zarhooie, Darkside agrees with you, more or less, because the only reference he could find for "shenaniganry" was UrbanDictionary, and it's his considered opinion that a citation in UrbanDictionary is a point against it being a Real Word) and was first thinking that it could be "exchange you to the circus", but that made very little sense, not even the surreal sense that "$PRODUCT is a verb" does -- but then realized that I had the wrong end of the stick. So now any and all shenanigans are "Outlook not so good". Outlook is heavy on double-key presses, which makes it less good for someone who likes the keyboard. Search feels like it's missing chunks; I want it to do in folder but not categorized with $CATEGORY, but I think I have yet to manage that syntax. (Either that or it can't, but that would make me sad.) I use a lot of categories and I have a lot of folders. This makes my use case complicated, terrifying, and edge.
There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned romp through brute-force data-mangling in the absence of better tools to make one appreciate life. That was my afternoon with the database. Just before all that started, the noise-canceling headphones that make this sort of thing possible decided to break, in a really dumb way: ( Read more... )
