“Elegant” equals a challenge

“Welcome to Macintosh,” the manual says.
It came with my new MacBook Pro computer.
I already had a MAC, a seven-year-old twin-processor G4 tower.
I've driven MACs for years, ever since the mighty Mezz computerized with MACs about 2000.
“Do you want me to set up an AppleMail account?” a friend asked.
He had come to set up my new MacBook Pro.
“The reason I never did is because I thought it was a web-mail,” I said.
“I use Netscape's e-mail; it directly accesses the great e-mail server in the sky.”
“So does AppleMail,” he said. “It's not a web-mail.”
So we went about setting up AppleMail.
We imported my Netscape address-book, except later I noticed an address was missing.
No problem. I'll just add it myself. It's only one address.
Should be simple, but guess what! No “add-new-address” button.
Access AppleMail's help thingy, but no indication of how to add an address.
With Netscape e-mail it was slam-dunk; a new-address button.
Apply old waazoo; “Try this and see what happens.” (Beep-Boop!)
There was something about adding the address of an e-mail just sent, so even though it was roundabout I tried that.
VIOLA! The address appeared in my address-list, but it was wrong; “.com” instead of “.net.”
Okay; the address is in there incorrect, so “edit” it.
But how?
No edit button.
Meanwhile, my wife is madly trying to Google a solution in the other room.
This usually works.
“It says here AppleMail is one of three apps that all work together as one: “Address-Book,” “AppleMail” and “iCalendar.”
I fire up my Address-Book, and fire up the errant address.
Lo, an edit button, but “edit” is not showing me anything like my old Netscape.
Netscape showed me the so-called “address-card,” and let me change things.
With Address-Book the “card” is off in Never-Neverland.
So I delete the errant address — it let me do that.
Next is create a new address-card.
Netscape let me do that with a simple button, but with Address-Book it's a menu-bar item.
The old waazoo; “Try this and see what happens.”
HELLO; I created a new “address-card,” correct; whomped it at last!
“Boy, we sure had to dance around Robin Hood's Barn,” I said.
“This AppleMail is a hairball — my ancient Netscape 7.2 e-mail, probably 10 years old, was dead simple,” I said.
“An 'elegant' solution to the e-mail problem,” my wife says, quoting some Apple boilerplate.
“Uh-ohhhhh,” I thought. “I prefer 'simple' to 'elegant.'”

• The “mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over four years ago. Best job I ever had. (“Canandaigua” [“cannon-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.)