Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I am grateful for...

• Mastodon, The Social Network That Can't Sell Out. And the rest of the Fediverse as well, though I haven't tried any of the other things yet.
• A large box-free space in the living room. Many of the banker's boxes have been pushed to the periphery, mostly between the couch and the back window; the rest, and the larger boxes, have gone into the storage room. Thanks, too, to N and N" who did most of the box-moving on Monday, and to my and N's ongoing efforts to triage the books.
• Monday's appointment and bloodwork, and the upcoming appointments with my urological oncology team. NO thanks for emails getting dropped between DreamHost and $G (which I've been using as an aggregator).
• Cuddly cats, including an increasingly cuddly Bronx. Or maybe I've just gotten enough better at understanding Cat.
• Air filters with UV sanitizing, which let us have the occasional visitor without everyone having to don masks.

Comments

[gorgeousgary]

Gotta leave at least one or two small boxes out for the cats!

[cellio]

I have been using $G as an aggregator, and it's gotten a lot worse in the last half-year, maybe year. More and more stuff disappears into a black hole, but it seems completely random -- like, I'll be having an email conversation with someone and one message won't get there, or I get most things from a mailing list but not everything, and there is absolutely nothing suspicious that I can see in the messages that don't make it.

I really need to do something different that doesn't rely on $G. They're big enough that they don't have to care about what they do to users, and it's not like there's any support or escalation path for problems.