Heading home...

[jay]

Busily packing now, leaving for the airport in an hour, landing around 8pm at SFO. I've been wondering if my email is broken... large numbers of email queries are going without replies. We will just get a taxi or something from the airport home...

Perhaps indicative is that nearly all of the unanswered email this week (not just about rides, but in general) was addressed to various members of a given local social circle, in varying contexts... sigh. I suppose I should have expected as much, given some interactions last week.

Comments

[geekchick]

I was just pissed because no one was answering my email and I was under time-pressure. Speculation as to cause was a mistake.

You know that I'm not usually one to suggest this particular course of action ;), but if something's become time-sensitive and you haven't gotten a needed response, perhaps you should try phoning the person in question. It's possible, as I think was mentioned previously, that the email you sent was never received; I've been dinged in the past by overzealous spam filtering or by other breakdowns in the mail delivery system.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I guess it's strange, but telephoning only occurred to me as a last-ditch emergency strategy, following attempts at email (primary), IM/chat (secondary), and then finally posting a general notice on LJ. Probably because I only check voicemail a few times per week, myself.

If this LJ post hadn't worked, I might have then tried to look up numbers... I had a couple, actually, I probably could have gotten someone at the main Dreamland house number to relay a message (several people there currently have dead cellphones). Thanks for the suggestion, I should try to call before trying LJ next time...

[geekchick]

Thanks for the suggestion, I should try to call before trying LJ next time...

Not a bad strategy. I would never personally rely on LJ as a mode of communication for something that's time-sensitive.