# I've only just realised that the Samsung clock icon animates to show the actual time. How often have I looked at it over the past few weeks?
# I've just sent out the second muse-letter which you can view online or, if you haven't already, join me.
It looks as though my host is having issues sending to hotmail or outlook.com addresses so I'll need to check what's going on but I think it's getting blocked because the IP address of the mail server has been flagged.
That's the problem with shared hosting where everyone's accounts are following the same routing. It only takes a couple of bad actors to ruin it for the rest.
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# Yep, the host has a number of issues with different outgoing mail servers being blocked by Microsoft. They're working on getting them delisted so apologies if you've signed up with an MS mail account and aren't getting the letters.
# Today marks the 4th anniversary of my return to the blog after what was a two year gap. There have been more breaks since and things have changed a lot, even since then.
I seem to spend a lot of time writing about taking breaks and rebooting things but this one was different, this was the big reboot, the return to blogging after deciding to completely change what I would write about and how I would go about it.
I spent a while doing what I called "social blogging" on Google+, using the network as my only writing platform. It was an escape from the self-enforced perfectionism I equated with the blog, I was too critical of everything I wrote which meant I wrote far less than I should have done over the years.
There are times I regret stepping away from the blog so often and for so long, for writing elsewhere or not writing at all, wonder what the blog might have become had I stuck it out. But then I consider that I needed those breaks, needed to step away or I would have ended up resenting it.
It has taken going cold turkey for me to appreciate what the blog is and what it still can be. While it might have been nice to have a continuous body of work, being happy with what's actually there is more important.
@colinwalker For what it’s worth, you had gone to my spam folder. I’ve now moved it to a Fastmail folder that’s designed to train it not to think that mail is spam, so hopefully the next one should be OK.
@devilgate Thanks, fingers crossed. Maybe i should include the obligatory instructions to whitelist the email address in future ;)