new Gmail account

I just got myself a Gmail account! I spent the last hour or so changing my e-mail address at various web sites so that all the newsletters that used to go to my yahoo account will now go to Gmail. I really like the interface, and the absence of obnoxious, blinking Flash ads. The gigabyte of space is nice too. It’ll be interesting to see how the spam filtering works out. I’m getting about 50 spams a day to my Yahoo account. It files most of the them correctly, but I have to fish 2 or 3 good e-mails a week out of the spam folder, and I usually get 3 or 4 spam e-mails a day that wind up in my inbox instead of the spam folder.

Fire

A power line came down on our front lawn today at work. It made a nice little fire, and scorched the heck out of a good size patch of grass. And of course it left us mostly without power for about half the day. I had a lot of fun trying to hook up computers to the AC outlets that were still working, so we could get some critical payroll stuff done.

The best part, though, was when one of the PSE&G guys had to take a leak, and decided to do that right on the side of his truck, in full view of anyone who might have been looking in his direction. And a lot of people were, since they were looking out the windows gawking at the fire.