Well I just woke up after falling asleep at 9PM, figured I should undress and take my contacts out, brush my teeth, save the shower for the morning since obviously it would just wake me up anyway. As I came back in my room and turned off the lights save the XP Lava Lamp and read my final IM’s from deviantDan.

I also checked Outlook, but what’s this? That piece of crap Outlook stops responding again. What’s worse is that this isn’t on my laptop which has loads upon loads of beta’s installed this is on my relatively new installation of XP MCE. I know Outlook runs fine on my Mom’s machine and never ever stops responding so my guess is that it’s NewsGator since I’ve only got it on this MCE and the laptop. I’ve checked the NewsGator forums and even Googled to no avail (though it was nice to see my site in the top ten rofl). Obviously I’m special because no one else in the whole wide web has this issue…

In any case I’ve had enough. Outlook is open (and never closed) on my systems, so as long as the computer is on, it’s open, so on the laptop Outlook has been open for 15 days 6 hours and 37 minutes minus of course the times I had to use the Office Application Recovery tool. It really really pisses me off when I go to pull up Outlook from the system tray and it’s not immediately available when I’m on the phone trying to pull up some info. So I’ve totally canned NewsGator for a while, I’m going to see how life used to be without it. Till then I’ve exported my OPML (wonder if the presidential candidates know what that is ) and imported it into Bloglines. It’s just a quick solution till I go back to using NewsGator (if it’s not what was causing the problem) or another RSS reader.

So far though I must say that Bloglines isn’t half bad for reading everything, the only thing I’m bummed about is that in order for me to really figure out the problem I’ve lost track of what’s been read and what hasn’t, not to mention the organization I had already done… I wonder if Bloglines will export folder structure in OPML? Is that even possible in OPML? If not, why isn’t it?

In the words of Kansas, “carry on my wayward son”.