Yahoo! for Yahoo!

Funny how God's timing seems to work out exactly right...

As of late, I've seen the contents of my inbox on my Yahoo! mail account increase dramatically, since we've been approved to join a particular mailing list for parents adopting from Ukraine (and, yes, a more detailed account of the whole adoption scenario is forthcoming - perhaps as early as tomorrow, 6/16/04, as I'm taking a sick day).

Anyway, I've been a bit worried lately, because I tend to run my Yahoo! account darned near full-capacity. I have several hundred e-mails stored in about twenty-five different categories. Some I keep for sentimental reasons (stuff from Katrina, and exchanges between myself and my brothers), others for fun (my humor folder has something like 120 different messages in in, some dating back to when I first got this Yahoo! account, sometime in 1998), still others for reference (tips and tricks on the computer, financial information), and, finally, records of online purchases and such.

So, yeah, my Yahoo! mail account somewhat mirrors my house, before the Great Purge of 2004 (to quote Mike, quoting Gary: "Dude, you've got a lot of shit.")

Anticipating a travel date sometime this summer, I was contemplating this very week purging every last message in my account, to open up the full 10 MB of space for the massive inflow of messages that I would have very few chances to purge during the month or so we'd be overseas.

And, blammo! What comes up when I open my Yahoo! mailbox this morning? An announcement that, along with revamping the whole Yahoo! Mail experience (sheesh, sounds like an ad for an iMac), they have upgraded all users to 100 MB of storage space, FREE! So, I went from running at close to 90% of capacity at all times to a measly 5%. (By the way - I can't figure out the math on this one. If I had 10 megs before, and was using 90% of them, how come it's only showing a 5% usage now that I'm at 100 megs? Did the tech in charge of updating my account take math with some of my students?)

So, nothing of real consequence here, just a nice little blessing. God has been teaching me lately to notice these little things, and to acknowledge them as such when they do happen.