Patrick Says

I’m a big fan of GMail. I’ve been using it for years. It’s awesome. But it’s not without some flaws. One of these flaws is that any person you’ve emailed is in your address book. So, literally, I have 716 contacts in GMail.

That’s kind of ridiculous.

Now sure, I could go through the immense list and delete people I don’t know that well or just emailed once or something, but who has that kind of time? But that’s not really the problem I want to talk about today.

No, the problem is that if you have the chat box up in GMail, you can see who’s ‘active’ right now for chat. And I have some semi-celebrities I’ve contacted. We’re hardly friends, but there they are.

Two are notable. Megan Morrone and Mary Alice from ‘Ace of Cakes’.

So, when I see that little green ‘available’ dot over there for either one of them, I’m all, hey, maybe I should say something. But then I realize they have no idea who I am and would be calling their attorneys faster than a supermodel eats a safe diet pill. So, there it sits…just teasing me.

Curse you, you little green dot of future restraining orders.

Can you imagine how those conversations would go?

Me: Hey, Mary Alice, remember me? I had that blog contest where you finished second to Amy Lee of Evanescence even though you actually emailed me and stuff? Sooooo, what chaaaaa doing?

Mary Alice: . . . [blocked]

The conversation with Megan goes pretty much the same way except for the stuff about the patron sainthood.

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