Email

Since I did the vast majority of house stuff at the beginning of the week, my enthusiasm has left me with somewhat of a quandary as there is very little for me to do today in terms of housey things.

Not that I should have worried too much. You see my new phone has the ability to send and receive emails, which is a functionality that I'd like to get working as I think it could be useful. So I spend most of the morning trying to figure out how to set it up - with no avail to be honest.

So I give in and ring up the vodafone customer service help line - twice. The first call was pointless, the woman on the end of the phone has as much idea as I do, ie. none. So I struggle along on my own for a bit longer. I then see if my Knight in Shining Gadgetry Armour can help.. Phil, but with out him being here with the phone its difficult for him to find out whats wrong with it too.

I've now spent the best part of 3 hours trying to figure out the darn thing, and decide to give the customer service bods another go, you never know I might not get the same person twice. Luckily for me the second person was much more helpful than the last, and even emails me the setting up guide for me to use. And finally after much swearing, I get it to work. I can now send mails from my phone, but not much luck with receiving.

I'm not particularly bothered by this, the main reason for me wanting to set up the email was so that I could go into town, take some photos of a mirror and a painted canvas that I'd seen in town that were on sale and I think might go well in our newly decorated hallway. If I can take the photos and email them to Phil at work I can get his opinion of both instantly and purchase them there and then.

So phone in hand I go to town, take the pics and email them to Phil, who ultimately says to get them, though in his own words "If it's not got cables and circuitry then I'm not the best person to comment". Hmm. Well I take that as a yes and get both items. The canvas was originally £60 reduced to £23.99 and the mirror was £40 down to £19.99. I then leave them both in the shop whilst I go to the local book store to see if they have any books that might be relevant to my new found photography craze.

As it happens they do, and I pick up The "Adobe" Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers and Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One. Both are good books with easy "just do it" sections which skip the theory and tell you step by step how to get the results that you want. Pretty nifty.

I then head back to the shop where my mirror and canvas were waiting, pick them up and then head home, but not before I've gone to the supermarket to pick up some essentials, like bread.

Not much doing this evening to report, so I'll leave it there!

Posted by Abi on the July 21, 2005 9:35 PM

sjon at July 25, 2005 8:22 AM