When Do You Want Your Email, Stalker!?

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Flight from San Francisco to Honolulu – Free Rum Drink


Flight from San Francisco to Honolulu – Hot, wet towels for everyone


Flight from San Francisco to Honolulu – Dinner


Flight from San Francisco to Honolulu – Raspberry Sherbert


Honolulu Airport – Lei from Dallas


Honolulu Airport – Lei from Dallas


Interisland flight to Lihue, Kaua’i


Interisland flight to Lihue, Kaua’i


Interisland flight to Lihue, Kaua’i


Interisland flight to Lihue, Kaua’i


Interisland flight to Lihue, Kaua’i


Lei from Dallas


Lei from Dallas


Lei from Cathy – Waiting for flight back to Chicago via SFO


Mounds of email

Back, but not all that happy to be back. The weather in Chicago is both hotter and more humid than when we left Honolulu on our redeye flight yesterday. Plus I always have a difficult time transitioning. Especially after a really long, fun vacation.

This trip to Hawaii was more family oriented than last year’s trip. Last year was all friends. This year, lots of family parties and a wedding. Also this year, we spent more time in Honolulu. Last year all my time was in Kaua’i except on the last day we caught the inter island flight early and spent about 4 hours in Honolulu. Also, this year I got a bruise on the first day of the trip and I thought I was going to end up as battered as last year, but that was the only bruise I got all vacation. I think it’s because I wasn’t doing all the adventurous hiking and swimming and snorkelling and stuff.

After the flight in to Honolulu Dallas got me a lei made of orchids and some other really fragrant white flower. I think it was pikake. On the way out his mom surprised me with an orchid lei. I never thought to get one on the way out.. it’s nice because I have it here at home now and it’s still fresh and not dried out. I’m keeping it here by the computer while I go through my 3,000 emails.

On the flight from Chicago to San Francisco we got jack squat. A cookie and a soda, no movie, nothing else to eat. But then from San Francisco to Honolulu we got in on some Pleasant Holidays deal where we were all treated like first class. Hot hand towels, a free rum drink, dinner, sherbert, mints, a movie, etc. Same on the way back except on the way back they gave me TWO bottles of rum.

After arriving in Honolulu we had drinks and waited for Dallas’ parents to arrive. Then we took the inter island flight to Lihue, Kaua’i. This year the interisland flights are more strict.. like there’s assigned seating now and you can’t just hop on the next flight if you miss your flight. They charge you to do that now. The best part of these short flights is the juice, although I think last year we had POG (passion/orange/guava) and this year we just had PO. heh.

Dallas’ sister, Caroline, was already in Lihue and picked us up in Grandma’s car at the airport. We also had an SUV rental for the week in Kaua’i. First thing we did was go to Keoki’s for dinner. We tried to go to Duke’s in Lihue, but parking was a bitch so we just went over to Koloa to Keoki’s. I had herb sauteed opakapaka (menu pdf). Really great and a good way to start out the vacation.

Next up was checking into our condo…

Completely Outrageous Email Request

I got this email a while ago.. kind of redic, but made me chuckle anyway. (XXXs for privacy)

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From: Gabriel XXX
Date: March 31, 2005 1:59:56 AM CST
To: rachelle@rachelleb.com
Subject: Ridiculous Roomate Request (it’s really not spam or ads, it’s
serious and hilarious)

Hi,
This is going to sound ridiculous, as the subject line suggests, but my roommate and I have a problem: we can’t seem to find a compatible third roommate who will be in Chicago this coming year. We talked about it for hours, listing the people we know (particularly at DePaul, since we’re both students there) and couldn’t come up with anyone. We joked, in a wandering conversation, that if we simply found a Mac user everything would be fine… then laughed at ourselves as I typed “Mac user Lakeview chicago” into the Google search. Even more hilarious was that it came up with your site! Now, to push the ridiculosity to the extreme, I am emailing you to ask you to meet with us to discuss potential living arrangements for the upcoming year (June-June 06). I am aware that you are a successful 29 year-old who would have no need for roommates, but it never hurts to ask, and it was fun just to take it this far.

Literally, Non-Sarcastically, and Sincerely,

Gabriel XXX