Sappy 2021

Unfortunately it seems the eM Client software I set up with all my email accounts about a month or two ago was only a trial. And so I am now without easy access to my emails. I looked again to see if there are any suitable mail clients, but the only one I can find is Evolution, which doesn't work on Windows. And since I haven't got my new Ryzen 5900X processor I ordered in early Nov when it came out yet, I can't build my new PC with a linux OS I could use Evolution on.

So today I've been working with my main personal and work accounts (1 each) open in Outlook online. When I went on 'open an additional mailbox' on my work account, it comes up with a "Open another mailbox" prompt. If you click in the text input, it then pops a box with a list of "Suggested contacts", all of whom are people I communicate with over email, and none of which are additional mailboxes I have access to.

So evidently MS thinks you'd like to try and open one of your contact's mailboxes rather than one of your own. I'm sure many people would find viewing their contacts' mailboxes quite interesting, but I would guess that MS doesn't actually allow that. I think the reason for showing your suggested contacts as to which mailbox you'd like to open is more just a case of Microsoft logic.

In the evening I made some whole grapefruit muffins, and after trying one I realised why I couldn't find any whole grapefruit muffin recipes - they are quite bitter (particularly in aftertaste). So I made some cream cheese icing to go with them that helps subdue the bitterness a bit.

I also spent ages on Ali Express putting together a shopping basket of parts to hopefully make something like a DIY Roland Handsonic. The end cost was nearly $100 though, it's amazing how quickly the cost adds up for a few cheap parts. It seems Ali Express have also started adding an extra 20% on top of the order at checkout, presumably because the UK is no longer in the EU. Though I don't really know why that would make any difference.

I didn't need to purchase any of the parts now - they're not on some special super deal or anything. But with the length of time things take to get here from China, I thought I might as well get it all ordered, then in a couple of months, if I do have any time, I can look at the project instead of having to wait then for parts to arrive or having to pay much higher prices from UK sellers.