Painful site design, at least change the background. You're not doing yourself any favors with that repeating geometric background. Having your bold text as the same color as the non geometric portion of the background doesn't help either. I hope your burned in subtitles don't make use of the same design principles of anti-contrast and signal hidden in noise.
I like it, text is not hard to read and the background and interesting design choices have more personality than most cookie cutter designs. You gotta appreciate the variety and spice of life.
As a performer, this gratifies my intellectual curiosity. Recently David Olney an American folk singer died on stage in the middle of the performance. His final words and how that all played out struck a chord with me. This was a relatively recent event and the fact that there's a whole listing of such events was intellectually interesting to at least one person anyways.
Journaling can help. At the end of the day, you can write about what was interesting or new about your day.
It also can help to visualize the reader's response. The reader could be anyone, it could be you in the future long after you've forgotten that specific day. It could be a romantic partner. It could be a friend.
Once you have a specific reader visualized, then journaling feels more like having a conversation.
Did it ever occur to you to give your mother an account on your own mail server? If the problem is communicating, using e-mail, with your mother, then that would be an easier solution path than trying to get Google to care about your mail server.
If you configured your server to use SSL, which you absolutely should do, then you would have the added advantage of secure communication as the message would never be sent in the clear over the open Internet.
I know I make it sound like I'm only ever emailing my mom, I thought it would be funny to write the story around that narrative, but of course I use email to communicate with other people as well.
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. Can't get better work leadership advice than Uncle Enzo. Then again, the protagonist has a pretty strong work ethic as well:
"The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills."
So now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved—but no cooperation either. Just a single principle: the Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car, file a class-action suit. The Deliverator has been working this job for six months, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes."
