One of the most time-consuming preparatory tasks is getting the laptops set up for full-timing.\u00a0 Jett has had a laptop for over a year and hers will be easily prepped for travel.\u00a0 In her case it is largely a matter of switching her one comcast.net email account over to the ourwanderyears.com domain.\u00a0 And maybe some work getting the backup procedure tweaked.\u00a0 But nothing major.<\/p>\n
I, on the other hand, have purchased a new laptop and intend to move everything over from my desktop machine to the laptop.\u00a0 This is a HUGE amount of work.\u00a0 Besides email addresses (at least 5 of ’em) and backup, I also have numerous applications (e.g. photo editor, Skype, tax software, Quicken, etc.) that need to be reinstalled and files brought over.\u00a0 The file issue I will address by moving them to a portable hard disk, then moving the disk to the laptop.\u00a0 But reinstalling applications will take a lot of time.<\/p>\n
I have been fairly smart, I think, in dealing with email addresses.\u00a0 A couple of months ago I changed my Outlook rules so that emails would be sorted into different bins depending on which email account they were addressed to.\u00a0 Today I set up an email client on the laptop and configured all of the ourwanderyears.com accounts to be received there, then removed those accounts from Outlook on the desktop.\u00a0 So I now have the desktop only receiving emails for accounts that will be closed by September.\u00a0 Any email that appears there is a de facto<\/em> notice of a need to correct somebody’s address book. Except, of course, for those people and companies that I don’t want to follow me when I leave.<\/p>\n You know who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the most time-consuming preparatory tasks is getting the laptops set up for full-timing.\u00a0 Jett has had a laptop for over a year and hers will be easily prepped for travel.\u00a0 In her case it is largely a matter of switching her one comcast.net email account over to the ourwanderyears.com domain.\u00a0 And maybe some … Continue reading