All posts in July 2020

From one of Monty Python’s best songs:

“Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!
Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam

Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am

Lovely Spam! (Lovely Spam!)
Lovely Spam! (Lovely Spam!)”
Etc.

But this post is not about that Spam, although if you want to scramble a few chunks of mystery meat into your eggs, why not? I suggest you buy the reduced sodium version. One two-ounce portion of the classic meets about 1/3 of your daily sodium needs according to https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-spam-healthy#highly-processed. How lucky we are to live in a time when doing Spam research is so effortless.

But this post is about your mail. There’s that spam folder, along with unread, starred, sent, drafts, archive, trash, etc. Maybe you have created a few extra folders, maybe even a long column of them.

Here’s your question of the day: Do you ever look in any of those folders? As we COVID shelter or at least slow down, you might want to look at the saved mail, the ancient mail, and the drafts you’ve forgotten. Do any of you “star” mail? I have enough trouble keeping up with reading it. This might be a great day for deletions.

Here is a suggestion for today: Try to work in regular visits to spam. Yes, spam is obnoxious. I don’t want to know the porn star’s secret and I don’t need a fungus eliminator. I would never take Keto or anybody else’s unsolicited advice on weight loss. As to Buy Gold 2Day, Rock Hard and “Feminist HATE this Penis Trick,” well, I am so not their target market. Due to my fear of opening dubious communiques from the internet, I’ll never know what that feminist hates, but I can live without that knowledge.

However, I found a few pieces of useful mail in that spam folder recently. Friends can get folded into those sales pitches. I caution readers to be careful. Spam does have a knack for identifying fake emails from hacked friends — you don’t want to open anything just because you see a familiar name. But don’t ignore spam entirely.

Free Not-A-Life Coach Advice: Write on your calendar somewhere near the start of the month, “check spam folder.” It doesn’t take much time to look for misclassified mail. I would delete unwanted email at that time.

Zombie quote for the day: If only Google understood me.

Ihhhvvv ohhhdee ooohhhgooo uhhdahhhdoood beee.

June 8, 2020: 18 murders in 24 hours: “Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago” the title for the Chicago Sun-Times reads. Cripes. Shooters keep shooting, too. According to NBC, this last week-end, the tally given by the Chicago police department showed 13 people killed and at least 50 others wounded across the city. Yesterday 13 people were shot and 3 killed on a rather unimportant mid-summer Monday (Sun-Times).

I doubt many of my readers need this advice, but I’ll offer it anyway. I have a surprising number of young adult social media friends.

Remember that — regardless of your activity or location — not much good happens after midnight. Go home. Play Grand Theft Starship #42. Throw a bag of popcorn in the microwave. Find a new show or an old show on Netflix. Dance to YouTube or TikTok. You do you, whatever you looks like. But do it at home. I recommend social distancing and masks, but mostly I recommend staying out of the line of fire.

Zombie Phrase for the Day: I was just going to pick up a six-pack.

Aahhhzzzz duhhhdohhh iddd dooo bihhhhgggh ubb dickk-dack.