The REAL reason why I am using a blog

So some people have asked if I plan to email everyone each time I add a new post and well that tends to launch me into the same story each time, so I thought I would share that with everyone, because the truth is that, no, please don't expect emails every time there is a new post.

So I bought an iPad for traveling purposes.  My 2008 MacBookPro was unfortunately just not going to cut it.  It only very recently received an upgrade to Snow Leopard (only to still be two OS releases behind Mountain Lion very soon), weighs in at WAYYY TOO many pounds, and has a battery lifespan barely long enough to allow me to walk outside to check my snail mail.  So enter the iPad.  It was supposed to make my life easier.  I thought it would be the best way to ensure I could email my family (read: my mom) and let everyone know I was still alive and having fun.  So I set about trying to make sure I could send these emails as effortlessly as possible, but I quickly discovered that it was not going to be effortless.

First there was a process just to learn how to get my gmail contacts to show up in the Mail or Gmail app. (One Apple store genius said it wasn't possible and another trip later, another genius said it was.  Ultimately, thank you YouTube tutorial).  Then there was discovering that my iPad still couldn't send emails to a group of contacts I had created in my Gmail contacts (created from my laptop).  Then there was the app download called MailShot that was supposed to let me send emails to a group of contacts at a time, but somewhere in there I got lost with the various lists called Contacts, All Contacts, Exchange Contacts, and Phone contacts and never could find my comprehensive list of gmail contacts from which I wanted to pull.  I read somewhere that there is still another workaround involving 10 more steps and emailing all of your contacts as the subject line, but all I thought was ‘headache.’  I thought technology was supposed to make life easier!  Apple, I am not happy with you right now.

So here I am, half a dozen trips to the Apple store later, writing a blog instead.  I thought blogs were for young people, but having to use one feels like admitting defeat to technology that is too new for the 26 year old me.