time out for you little mister

I got up this morning all ready to start on the preliminary sketches for two possible jobs out there. Had my coffee while I followed the doings of the blog world and then settled down to be a productive human being after my month long hiatus. Not that I wasn't productive during that time, just not productive in an income producing way.

First thing on my agenda was to answer the email asking for a class description of the new workshop we are going to teach in August. Got my answer all typed out and hit send and all I got was an error message. WTF?! It all worked fine last night. Tried the other send server address with no better luck. Great. After a frustrating half hour, I finally rewrote the class description on Marc's computer and sent it off.

I'm fairly computer literate, can usually solve my problems but by 1 PM this afternoon, after delving deeply into settings and accounts and the connection doctor and the help and on and on and windows hidden in windows looking for that illusive one thing that had (according to the error message I finally found), for no apparent reason and with no direction from me, changed itself so that it allowed me to receive mail but prevented me from sending mail. After changing settings and changing them back ad infinitum, I found it. Unclicked the little box (and, btw, there are TWO of those little boxes and the first one you come across isn't checked) and voila!, I could now send mail.

Unfortunately, I could no longer receive mail.

Geez Louise and Holy Mother. Totally disgusted, I turned it off, unplugged it and went to run a couple of errands while Imac had a little time out in the corner to contemplate the error of it's bad behavior.

I did, eventually, find the new error message that directed me to the solution, changed the setting and I can now not only send mail, but receive it as well. It only took me All. Friggin'. Day.

So now all is right with the world and I'm having a margarita...or two...or three.