First significant goof

5:10: Insomnia; try to doze on couch as long as possible
8:30: Arrive at physics class on time
8:35: Remember that goggles are required by the second meeting of chem lab and mine are at home, probably in the room where Rob is still asleep
9:20: Rush across campus to bookstore to buy goggles
9:35: Remember that chem LECTURE is at 9:30
9:36: Scamper as fast as possible across campus (which isn't very, on these feet) to chem lecture (exact farthest building, best I can tell)
9:42: Get there too late to take the quiz but in time to turn in homework
10:20: Cross campus again; get goggles
11:30: Arrive at chem lab on time with goggles
11:35: Notice that six people in class don't have goggles and the rule is not enforced

Sigh. I was ready for that quiz and wish I'd taken it. I admit forgetting my schedule is my own damn fault, but I'm frustrated that my mistake makes a difference and other people's not giving a shit doesn't make a difference.

E-mail fixed

Many thanks to Rob, who yet again diagnosed

- my domain is hosted on a virtual server
- sharing its IP address with others
- one or more of whom is a spammer
- and has thus gotten my (our) IP address blacklisted.

I *read* my e-mail elsewhere, and it was the forwards that were failing. Coming to a conscientious destination from a blacklisted, no-reverse-DNS-lookup-possible IP address, of COURSE they all failed.

This is not the first time it has happened. It's not even the first time this year that it has happened. Rob has written some Stern Words to the folks hosting my (and his) virtual server about kicking spammers off and keeping the IP addresses they provide to customers off the blacklist. (They responded with "For $1 more per month, upgrade to a dedicated IP of your own!" That response takes chutzpah, don't you think?)

Now if only I can remember all this NEXT time it happens, so I don't have to impose on Rob yet again.