Perhaps bolstered by my recent reading, I bit the bullet today and deleted the strangely now duplicated gmail account from the Mail program. How there came to be a duplicate of it under the Notes folder, I do not know. I do know that it was indeed constantly re-getting the mail for that “second” version. Or so it seemed to me. So I took a breath and reviewed all appropriate clichés and said “yes computer, please delete that account. Yes I know everything associated will be deleted from my computer but deep in my heart I am confident that everything I really need and, oh!, so much more are still safe and sound on Gmail’s voluminous email servers.” Recreated the account in seconds and voilà the problem is solved.

Now a nice once through of “downloading” the mail. It will go through the rules and filters and end up, pretty much right where it all was before.

Oh that the rest of life were so simple, eh?

…the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master’s, ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself by Frodo’s side, and putting away all fear he cast himself into a deep untroubled sleep.

~~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Book II, The Land of Shadow.

from Sandy because it is the best thing I’ve seen in days! (Thanks Sandy!)

Now that you’re all singing along (you know you are)!

A grey start after last weeks shining weather, but doesn’t matter because I’m still on vacation. I think that it doesn’t get much better. Have had the windows open a crack and it’s nice to have some fresh air around.

I may be guilty of having a bit more coffee than normal but I’m blaming the new* coffee grinder. I decided to hang it on the old kitchen “hutch” which is outside the actual kitchen. It means I didn’t have to try and find a secure place to mount and since you get to actually crank the wheel attaching it solidly is important. The thick old boards of the store-bought hutch were just the thing. I’m getting the hang of how many cranks for how many cups of coffee and the results are great. Not messy either which surprises me. I would have guessed that grounds would continue to float down after removing the catching jelly jar of freshly ground coffee.

Guess I’m heading out for some groceries and to see what else I can think about.

* New in this case means something that survived from around 1910-20-ish. I have no idea if mine is a #2 or #3 or a combination of parts of both. Unthreaded hopper with embossed but the area behind the handle is smooth which points to #3. On the back of the grinder itself is a #2 stamped in the metal but apparently that doesn’t mean anything. Don’t really care because it works!