Oh I hate that

I hate when I’m at the in-laws and I forget to change the outgoing server stuff for the email. Their SBC Yahoo dialup connection only lets you send email out through their server, and I spent soo freakin’ long trying to figure out why my email wouldn’t send from Outlook. Duh!

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