Lara and I walked over to Ted’s Bulletin for breakfast the morning after I was laid off, and I couldn’t resist the Walk of Shame burrito.
With extra green chile.
Increíble.
And I spent most of the rest of the day getting my technical house in order. Against my better judgment, I decided to stay with Microsoft Outlook instead of migrating my insanely extensive contacts and email archive (about 5 gigabytes of data) back to Apple Mail and Contacts. It took a little work, but so far, so good. I decided to go for Office 365, a cloud-based approach that charges an annual fee and allows you to load the Office software on multiple computers.
After some back and forth, I managed to set up a new email account, bbenz@opposable-thumbs.com, and get my computers and iPhone all synced up from an email, calendar and contacts perspective. It took a lot more swearing and gnashing of teeth than this paragraph would lead you to believe, but in the end, my technology was settled.
And so was I.