Finally figured out the deal with my email trouble. Basically it comes down to not being able to speak german too good (as in basically not at all.) I found a setting under "Optionen" (I figure that probably translates to "Options" in english) called "AntiSpam". It had the following text included under the option "Spam-Schutz für Massendomains aktivieren" which had a check box that was clicked:

"Aus Sicherheitsgründen empfängt GMX Mails aus den Domains aol.com, aol.de, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, yahoomail.com und msn.com standardmäßig nur von Mailservern dieser Domains. Sollten Sie diesen Schutzmechanismus ausschalten, rechnen Sie bitte mit einem erhöhten Aufkommen von Spam und/ oder UCE in Ihrem Postfach."

This translates with babelfish to:

"For safety reasons GMX Mails from the Domains receives aol.com, aol.de, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, yahoomail.com and msn.com only according to standard from Mailservern of these Domains. If you should switch this protective mechanism off, count please on the increased arising of Spam and/or UCE in your p.o. box."

A little further down on the page there is a text entry box with the title: "erwünschte Absender".

What I found was that if I put my friend's email addresses in this text box their mail doesn't bounce. Nifty eh? I could have saved all this hassle by either just using an english based web mail account, or maybe just learning some german.

Where's the fun in that?

Finally went to the Getty museum today. Been there three times previously without actually going in like a tourist. My fav was the Getty Underground exhibition.

Well, today my daughter took me up the hill. It was much as I expected. Hagen Daas ice cream bars $3.95 a piece. We asked one of the guards what the hot deal was--I got tired of walking pretty quick, and it seemed like it was all stuff that I'd seen before at the Malibu museum. The guard suggested the west gallery. The one with all the impressionist and surrealist stuff. I concurred and we scurried over.

All stuff I had seen before. The Van Gogh was under glass this time. There was a Picasso under glass as well. I don't understand why they didn't have more guards around. There was only one in a room full of marvelous impressionist paintings. It was making me paranoid. There were a lot of people in there. Kids messing with the name card on the Van Gogh--no wonder they have it under glass.

My daughter pointed out to me a woman that had her zipper down. Maybe she thought I would be interested. Ha. We were both too embarassed to tell her. I told one of the guards and he ran over to her as if she were getting ready to barf blue paint on some art work. Guess he was pretty bored.

My favorite object this time was a picture of some chick's ass taken by Man Ray in 1930. Really nice. The title card next to it mentioned that it had been pretty controversial back in the day. Looked like a nice big peach.