You have a long and varied list of how to contact you and regale us with stories of all the scammers who contact you, but it is difficult to get an actual response from you. Am I doing something wrong?

It's a fair cop. Things have been a bit uneven of late. And in the old cliche words to all not just the asker, "It's not you it's me."

Typically, I like to get a response out within 24 hours. Actually, I like to have one out within 2-4 hours. So what goes wrong?

For starters... best way to question me is via IM with an emphasis on AIM. I am horrible at phone conversations. But let's focus on email.

If you don't get a response from me within 24 hours there are a couple of possibilties.

1) I didn't think the question necessitated a response. (Sometimes a vastly wrong assumption on my part)
(the writer of this wrote me a day or so back and didn't know if the mail wanted a response)

2) I thought through a lengthy response and then did not have the time to get it together... (this is often followed by:)

3) I got it in my head that I did respond and actually forgot to.

4) Life got insane (boy, work, etc) and I need to get back to it.

For the Andrei can be a slightly absent minded person and thus IM is the best way to catch him directly in the moment.

Please note.... if you haven't heard from me... It is VERY UNLIKELY that I did NOT get your email. I no longer trust automated spam filters and have written my own.

So... if You are pending a response from me... after about 6-12 hours if it is time critical... please feel free to ping me. If you send me a ping "Hey, did you get my email"... those I typically will get to as soon as I see them to give a brief overview of why there hasn't been a delay. (Thus what we call a pong to the ping)

Believe it or not... when checking if someone is online or available... I may just IM them "PING." Most of these people know to respond with Pong.

So... hopefully this helps not merely the asker but the rest of the readers.

And I'll also take that to mean that the email wanted a response which will occur right after this post :-D

Tags: communication, connection, contact
Current Location: FreePeople House: Sofa 1b; seat ∂cΩ, variant 9e31//t18
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Tags: battle, contact, phone, war
Current Location: BUS to work
Current Mood: accomplished

Got to sleep around 10pm last night. Got up around 6:30.

Granted... these times are now eastern. Which means my body gave out at 7pm and yanked me awake at 3:30 this morning.

We still have heard nothing from the airport concerning our Wardrobe. This has out formal clothes for the Notocon Banquet, my long sleeve ruffly shirts, and most importantly our Poi.

The latter of the which sucks because we were thinking of spinning on the Maine shore this morning.

Maine? Yesterday after getting in, We went to JP to visit with queenofhalves then off to Cambridge to Lunch with motive_nuance back to JP to pick up my travel file. Then off to dinner with jnanacandra's Uncle and then off to crash in Maine with tailerouge. Due to scheduling the tattoo work for jnanacandra from deanocturne should occur today.

Today we're headed back towards Salem for Notocon. Hopefully our missing luggage and the shipped artwork will be there.

This evening is the Open house.

Anyone at Noto looking to reach me can txt my cell. It is again charged and the texting should be working :)

If you don't have my cell: You can send me a text message via the link from my LJ profile. Please remember to include your cell phone # for return text msgs or at least an email you can readily check :)

In other news... I have tried the Facebook and found it to be a 'Good Thing'&trade

My initial reservations were that it required you to be in one of its recognized networks. But this was my misunderstanding of the interface. I am unhappy that region networks are limited to Seattle, Bellevue, and (I think Bothell)... You'd think Redmond and Everett would be listed.

But other than that, I like the extensibility. Lots of things you can do with it beyond the default, and with effort lots of things you can add to it.

So at this point.. I'd like to invite as many readers as possible to go sign onto Face Book. (http://www.facebook.com)

i don't get any credit for promoting it... But I definitely want to see what the environment is like with more people in my network. (Please note: I am only adding people that I know already. If I've met you online only through LJ, that's OK. People discovering me for the first time in FaceBook... not so much.)

Tags: contact, notocon, travel
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