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August 13, 2006 at 11:54 pm
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Unfortunately over the last few days I gradually developed a bit of a head cold.  On Saturday it wasn’t too bad - and one of my concert companions was in worse shape so I was able to feel better by comparison.

But today (Sunday) it got considerably worse and the timing was especially bad.  The cold combined with the sunburn-of-all-sunburns that I got on Tuesday culminated in one heck of a sneezy, stuffy, itching, coughing, head-aching, skin-peeling Sunday experience.  Suffice to say, I wasn’t a pretty sight.

At the moment I find myself with the itching subsided and my ability to breathe normally has returned (without the aid of any decongestants or the like).  Here’s hoping it lasts.





2 Responses to “Less than a Brandon”

  1. Nigel Says:
    August 28th, 2006 at 10:08 pm

    Dear Brandon,

    Greetings from Western Australia.

    Trust you are feeling better. I couldn’t find your email address, but I have a question.

    I love msn desktop search. However, I have recently updated to windows live toolbar and desktop search. Since then, desktop
    search says that the indexing is complete, and yet it isn’t reading any of my outlook email/contact data.
    I have had outlook running and plenty of time for desktop search to index it.
    What am I doing wrong??

    Kind regards,

    Nigel Gordon

  2. Brandon Says:
    October 3rd, 2006 at 12:30 am

    Hi Nigel,

    Sorry I didn’t respond to this sooner. In your situation, the first thing I would do would be to open Outlook and go to the Help menu, click “About”, and then click “Disabled Items” and look to see if the WDS add-in has been disabled.

    Sometimes when Outlook crashes or is closed improperly (for any reason) it will ask on start-up if you want to disable all add-ins. If you click “yes” it will disable the add-in that is necessary for indexing to happen properly.

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