Talk about the doldrums, the dog days.

 

My email is currently trickling in instead of gushing, and I’m down to about 25 spam emails a day. Even the work-from-home scammers must be suffering from the heat and humidity. The folks who think I want Viagra from Canada are too sweaty to push the send button. The people who want to give me a free i-Pod for taking a survey went out to get iced cappuccinos.

 

 I have an old version of Outlook Express on a very slow, old computer. Forget bells and whistles; it‘s lucky to have in and out boxes.  A folder titled “bulk mail” arbitrarily grabs about 1/3 of my incoming missives. Often a friend will send me multiple emails at once and some will go into bulk mail, some won’t.  This leaves me defenseless, deprived of the sort of sophisticated filter settings others take for granted.

 

Huddled by the groaning, whining air conditioner in my office window, I am thankful for the vacations other people get: you know, the folks who have J-O-B-S.  The more time they spend on the beach, the less they bother me.

 

I need a new computer ASAP. Maybe it will come loaded with an email program that allows me to block objectionable senders. Yes, I know they have zillions of variations on their names, designed to get around the filters, but at least I will no longer suffer the humiliation of getting crap from the very same address for 3 years.