Unrequested Services

Feh.

I use Thunderbird for my e-mail on my home computer. The mail passes through the university server, however, which uses MS Outlook. Somehow, the Notifications flag on the latter got turned on, giving Outlook permission to read my mail and notify me of upcoming events. "You're flying to Seattle tomorrow!" was not too bad; I just deleted it. But today, I received a message: "Your bill with :company: is due in a couple of days!" But a) I paid that bill a week ago, and b) if I had not paid it, :company: would have given me a noodge by now.

This service, I do not need. It took me a while to find the appropriate settings page, but I have turned it off. I think. I hope. I still don't know how it got turned on.

Horns, Horns, Horns

Damn, but I love the hornwork in Chicago's "Chasin' the Wind". It's not all that creative, but it sure sounds good.

Homage

Today is Aretha's funeral. I understand that there are a bunch of pink Cadillacs parked outside the church. I dig.

Weekend

I don't have any classes on Friday, so, with Monday being Labor Day, I'm effectively on a four-day weekend. I'm tinkering with the latest iteration of my library database; I've figured out how to greatly simplify some rather kludgy code from the previous version. It'll take me a while - probably into December - before I have the new version up and running, but I'm feeling good about it so far.

I plan to make my first Amazon trip of the year this weekend also. (Long and boring explanation omitted.) I've got quite a bit to catch up with, most notably the latest Vorkosiverse novella. (There are fifty-two messages in my Bujold folder that I haven't read, since they contain spoilers.) I also want some more music.

Of course, the weekend won't be all fun and games. There are some financial items that need attending to as well. But mostly I intend to enjoy myself.