Blogging From Work

I have a new toy. My husband gave me his old Palm Pilot. It's pretty old, a Palm IIIe. I think they are selling Palm XXIII or something now. I wanted to use this so I could read my e-mail at work during my breaks. I fought all day yesterday trying to download my mail into this thing. I finally got some mail on here, but I didn't check it closely enough. I am on a lot of mail lists, and some of them are really chatty, so I have them all set on digest. That way I just get 10 or 15 big e-mails instead of 150 or 175 little e-mails. Anyway, apparently this was set to truncate the e-mail, so all I got was about 10% of each e-mail. Live and learn.

So, instead of reading my e-mail I am blogging at work. I am still learning how to write in Graffiti, the chicken scratch version of shorthand that they use in Palm Pilots. So far it's taken me half an hour to write this much. Not bad considering this is the first time I tried to do this.

I hope I can get my e-mail to work right tonight. I have really been looking forward to being able to read my mail during my breaks. I usually bring a book to read, but I have a ton of e-mail I need to go through. I have been spending all my time reading other blogs instead of keeping up with my e-mail.

Well, I'm home now. I tried to figure out how to get my entire e-mails to download, and I don't think I can. I think that is a permanent fixture of my Palm Pilot. They didn't ask my opinion on this. So now I have to decide what to do. Should I just forget about reading e-mail at work, or switch all my mail lists to individual e-mails? What about all the e-mails I already have in digest form? It would be a real pain in the ass to go over each one and chop them up into smaller pieces. Maybe I should just pick a couple of mail lists to read at work and only switch them to individual e-mails. Or maybe just forget about the whole idea.

I can alwas use this to blog at work. Of course, I average about 15 minutes per paragraph.