Crap. Last night when I was fiddling with the Outlook and Norton settings on my laptop computer, I must have done something odd, ‘cause when I restarted Outlook to receive mail, it basically redownloaded of all my messages. I now had duplicates of everything. Umm, okay. I deleted the dupes and thought nothing of it. But as I found out this morning, it didn’t leave the messages on the server like it usually does. Here on the office computer I use a web interface to access my e-mail, and today when I opened up my inbox, there was nothing. Nothing. (You may now break into song, preferably “Nothing” from A Chorus Line, but I will also allow “I Have Nothing” by Whitney Houston.) Okay, so it wasn’t completely empty; there were a handful of e-mails I had received since last night. And it’s not a complete loss, since, as I mentioned, copies of all my messages are and have always been safe on the laptop at home, but because they’re inaccessible at the moment, I’m effectively starting from scratch. Oh, well. I’ll live.
I mean, I’d been meaning to clean out my inbox, but this isn’t quite how I imagined it.