Had Labor Day off, so I’m starting a 4 day week today. Next week I have Friday off, then the following Monday, for ACL – so there’s two more 4 day weeks. I need to work in something for the last week of September, so I can do this for a whole month.
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Gretchen as a puppy, taken around 1998. For whatever reason the page template had no reference to the comment template, so even though I had opened the pages (Music, Camera, PC, etc…) to commenting, the functionality was not there. It’s been fixed, so …wanna make fun of the music I listen to? …got some PC or camera knowledge to impart? Bring it. 12 oz. Filet Mignon. A bottle of Malbec. Cheesecake with strawberries and raspberries. This is not going to help me lose weight. Being fat is awesome. P.S. First post made from my iPhone. Yes, I still love it. If you spent any time at all this summer with the Lovely Wife or me, you know that she has spent a good portion of it making a wedding dress for her friend and teaching mentor. And stressing about the dress. And cursing the dress. And getting really excited when she pulled off some new sewing victory, only to have her explanation of said victory fall upon my brutish, non-sewing-educated ears. Well, the dress is done. The wedding happened. It looked beautiful, and it did not split apart or burst into flames. Reception pictures here. On Wednesday I told the Lovely Wife that she was getting a present the next day. She was sure it was going to be a book she had seen and wanted – Happier, by Tal Ben-Shahar. It was actually a MacBook. I did, however, try to please with the wrapping. Pics here. So, I can take a picture with my iPhone and email it from the iPhone to a .Mac web gallery, where it will automatically be added. I can add as many galleries as I like, and have a different email for each. I could have an ACL gallery that was updated with ACL pics from ACL as I took them. For now, there’s just this. … to an almost unhealthy degree. I carry it with me everywhere. Some Jehovah’s Witnesses just came to my door, and I unplugged it and put it in my pocket so I would have it with me in case I needed it in the 90 seconds I was away from the computer. After I’d had it for 6 hours I picked up The Lovely Wife’s Blackberry and tried to answer a call by touching the screen. I got more and more frustrated as I mashed on it over and over until I realized it wasn’t going to do anything, and then I just gave up. It was no longer worth it to me to expend the energy to scroll the wheel and push the button and whatever else you have to do to answer that dinosaur of a phone. You might as well have asked me to go out in the back yard and bang out morse code on a giant drum for the calvary division on the next hill. Now I address the criticisms: Yes, it is. So is 3G, the standard you’re whining for. Do you live in a cornfield? If you don’t, WiFi is everywhere – look into it. And the 2 times I’ve had to rely on EDGE it was a bit of a drag, but it was perfectly acceptable FOR A TINY INTERNET IN MY POCKET. Are you also upset that it doesn’t have tricorder functions? Shut up, nerd. It’s a wide screen, touchscreen video iPod with text, email and internet access, AND it’s a phone. The first generation, 10GB iPod with a mechanical scroll wheel was $499 in 2001, and it is an enormous, functionless brick of compressed crap compared to the iPhone. So do I. I also hate every other wireless company I’ve ever done business with, which is most of them. They all charge about the same and work about the same, and then when something goes wrong, they all have the same terrible service. There is almost nothing to differentiate them, except… oh, look. It’s an iPhone. AT&T wins. You still have a land line and carry a transistor radio, don’t you? Are you reading this web page at the library? Before.
After.
Cleaned, installed new composite floor tile, replaced cabinet sink with pedastel sink, re-caulked, and increased monkey content by 1000%. |
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