It took most of yesterday for Gmail to acquire all my emails from the google app hosted email, it was downloaded in batches varying in size ranging from 150 emails at a time to 250. But I can’t tell you how much of a relief it is to only have to check 1 place for the vast majority of my email.

Another interesting thing took place yesterday, I got home and took my contacts out (as is my routine) to let my eyes rest. Normally I just go without glasses and just deal with my astigmatism. Well last night I was struggling to read the satellite tv guide on screen so K brought me my glasses. I put them on and all was well. I was able to get to watch the Bears vs 49ers game, and then put in The Rock on DVD.

When I went to brush my teeth I did a double take!

After wearing glasses for nearly a decade, in just three months I’ve become used to not wearing them and seeing myself in them was a shock. It’s amazing how fast things can be undone in memory.

The Matrix, one of the great philosophical movies of our time, uses a term along the lines of “residual self imaging” to define how the Matrix renders us. It uses our own memory of what we look like to define what we look like in the Matrix. So with just three months my residual self image has changed such that the glimpse of me in spectacles was surprising.

I don’t know why this surprises me so much, but I guess it’s real evidence of just how liquid self image is. It’s how we get the beer gut or how we don’t notice those wrinkles. They develop and over the time our self image changes.

I was relaying how my email address has changed over the years, the daisy chain of forwards and the multiple addresses I mentioned in yesterday’s post. How my online point of contact, which has changed for various reasons, but that I’ve modified, adapted and most recently migrated to a new system.

I guess I’ve migrated my glasses into the archive and hadn’t realized it. Weird.