LOL I use a ton of email accounts, but none of those. I use a client with encryption enabled (Thunderbird and Enigmail, so I can PGP sign and encrypt as needed.)
But, I have a public facing <uninvolved@outlook.com> (which I give to anyone and everyone).
I have a fake name, complete alias, complete with some fake online content and that is my <alias>.com address.
I have three .edu email addresses. One from Maine's university system from when I taught for those couple of years. One from MIT. One from my old prep school. They gave it to me 'cause I donate and I'm alum.
Then, I have a personal email address that's reserved only for family.
I also have various email addresses associated with all the domain names that I host - and I host the email myself in those cases.
In other words, I have a fucking ton of email addresses and they're scattered far and wide. I wrangle 'em all (those that I check regularly) with Thunderbird. It does a surprisingly good job.
And, on the subject of email clients... For a short period of my life, I was a Windows user. I have to admit, as far as I'm concerned, Outlook Express was the best email/newsgroup client - ever. Version 7.0 was the apex and Outlook Express was something that Microsoft got right.
It's the only thing I miss from the Microsoft ecosystem. Granted, I didn't use them long, but I really, really enjoyed it. I spent maybe just about a decade using Windows in the office? I'm not quite sure... I guess it'd be more like 7 or 8 years. Still, I fucking loved Outlook Express.
I've never been a fan of any email client honestly, but you know my feelings on email. If I had to pick one I'd pick emclient. I wish I was more wordy today but I'm just not, kid will be born soon so things are a bit stressful in the boob's household at the moment, but soon it will be the best day ever, so I'm excited for that.
No need to be wordy on my account. I've got enough words for dozens of us. ;-)
And, yes... I recall your opinion of email. I don't recall it, but my first email addresses was actually just some numbers and I don't think it even had the @ symbol. (It predates a lot of the infrastructure you're familiar with, and DNS was very different back then.) It was an internal messaging system over the MIT network, and it'd be years before even existed.
I've liked email ever since. Back then, I actually hated computers. I'd keep hating computers until they got to about the 2 GHz mark. They were just slow to the point of trying my patience, difficult to work with, required cryptic and esoteric knowledge, and prone to bugs.
When I first started to use computers, you had to know how to program to get any real functionality from them. I did not know how to program - and I never did get to the point where I'd call myself any good at it. Sadly, I've done quite a bit of programming. I've just done it poorly.
The only saving grace I've had is that I have prior knowledge about mathematics and that requires logical thinking. Programming is also a logical progression. I have that part figured out, it's the many variables and structure that get me!
Anyhow, I'd tell you that kids are kinda awesome and not to worry, but you already know all that. You don't need my input. The human species has been giving birth to live young for at least 200,000 years. The vast majority of time, it goes just fine. It's good that it does, else our species would likely be extinct.
Hopefully your place of employment will give you some time off and you can relieve the wife of some duties and enjoy those early moments of bonding. The older kids may be a bit jealous, but that's a time honored tradition and I'm sure you'll find a way to cope and alleviate their fears to reassure them that you still love them just as much.
Maybe, just maybe, you now know enough chords for you to fashion together your own song to welcome this new life into your life. It ain't gotta be pretty - and it may turn out to be a song you spend the next two decades fixing up. You never know, but I have shared before how much making music can impact your life and make things just a little smoother. And, if it can't make it smoother, it might be able to make it more distant and that means you can forget about life for a while.
Sadly, the current place of employment, I'll get 2 maybe if I'm lucky 3 days, luckily enough my in laws are 0.9 miles away so they have very little excuse not to help. I might try and string something together but I know it would be terrible, I'd probably wait to play it until the wife and baby are home from the hospital and rested a bit. The day my son is born will be the best day ever though. The things we will do together, I imagine grand things, I know that kids have their own ideas about things and their own interests so my dreams will in all likely hood be shattered but its fun to dream. I like that about kids they are nothing but raw potential, they can literally be anything they want within reason. Its a wonder to watch inspiring really. If I didn't have kids I probably never would have gotten around to buying a guitar, One of my thoughts on the subject was well if my daughter is going to learn things she thinks is hard I'll show her I can learn hard things too we can do it together. Not that its worked out that way but there is still hope.
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