My Daily Washing Routine
Before I can wash in the morning, my daily desk routine starts with a browse through my emails. I am always interested to see what spam has come in overnight. I use Mailwasher (look at mailwasher.net it’s free for one email address usage and an excellent programme). It opens automatically when I start the laptop, and loads up all my emails in one place, but keeps them online. So, I get to see what’s in each of my various inboxes up in Server-land, rather than risk downloading something nasty to the real world. I then browse the subject header and ‘from address’, and delete those I don’t want. The other nice thing about this is that I can bounce back any that particularly annoy me, mark others as spam for the good of the community (as they get reported) and befriend those I know to be safe. Out of about 60 emails this morning (Sunday), I have two I want to keep. But who have I ignored? More on this fascinating subject after a photo. Today, we’re off to St Nicholas for our photos.
Amazon thinks I will be interested in something I once accidentally browsed in one of their storms three years ago. A Canadian drugstore is still doing its best to sell me medicines at very cheap rates, and eBay asks, ‘Have you seen these, James?’ to which I answer, ‘None of your business.’ Top-rated generic and branded treatments are here, apparently, while, on Goodreads, I am now friends with someone I’ve never heard of. The UK GOV keep banging on about travel advice to Greece (I used to find it interesting, but now, don’t trust it, so I might mark it as spam just for fun), and Heidi at Better Than PPF is telling me to provide my customers’ financing, and I think, ‘No, they can pay for things themselves.’ Photo pause:
Info-at-mail has a beneficial deal, Lola has and ‘easy solution to…’ and there’s a sale on for ‘Ling’s family shirts’, whatever that means. The whole family wearing one shirt, perhaps? Bit awkward. Netflix has added a movie I might like, but I only watch films, I’ve got a customer invoice from a company I’ve never dealt with, and root-at-Vietnam has sent me a long list of squares, exclamation marks and the letter P. After being invited to meet new people in the Pet’s Game, whatever that is, I have a heap of Viagra offers to wade through, including one where my order is ready and one where I can get off for 80% off. Viagra offers are, amusingly, followed by Wish, which is always followed by a very persistent Lisa who sends me a daily message from YouPic no matter how many times I ignore, unsubscribe or bounce. Photo pause:
Then, finally, I come to those written in Greek script, and there I find confirmation from the electricity company that our household bill is now in my name. It’s only taken 18 years, but thanks to their online process, it’s now easy to do, and hey presto, I have proof of my address and more control over my own bill. So, with about 60 spam emails to automatically send back, get rid of or in some other way keep from entering my physical computer, and I finally ‘Wash’ with safety, and get on with my day.
