flemmings | (no subject)

My money people want to talk to me, as they do every September, and I want to talk to them about maybe I'll take them up on that kind offer to be executors of my will, because if I live to the age I think I will, my current executors may be moribund or as dead as I am. Though I expect that if I do, they may have different ideas about estate planning than I do, they being people for whom money is of necessity Serious Bizness. But cross that bridge when we come to it, because every time I try to answer their email it bounces, or my program won't send it at all. This is concerning, as a similar problem cropped up earlier this year, when I sent an email, apparently successfully, that the recipient simply didn't get. No fun at all when asking for a top up to meet heavy expenses like yanno roofs.

But fine, I have a gmail account, and I send my reply with that, and it goes through successfully. Thus I will be using gmail with them in future. But christ on a cracker is gmail nonintuitive. Is there an address book feature? No, there is not. DL another bloody app if you want to save addresses. Can I keep the email with the date of my consult in the inbox? No, gmail wants to put it somewhere else. Gmail keeps drafts of my emails but doesn’t inform me if my email actually went through. I have to check Sent to see if it did or not, and I have no idea why it saves an email as a draft in the first place.

I never thought of Google as being as evil empire as some I could name, but I'm beginning to see why people do.