A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
A New Day!
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This Morning
Todo: Take Noah to soccer, Go to UT’s Orange and White Game, work on house, work on cars, visit with relatives, play with new phone whenever possible.
Last Night
After dropping Cathy and Amy off at the house, I switched cars (this one has only stalled in traffic twice). Went to the lighting store to get our special halogen buibs for the bedroom but they were out. Spent a good deal of time discussing lighting of the house with the outside sales rep. When Cathy gives the ok, she will stop by the house and we will make a plan (similar to what I’m going to do with a landscaper). She also gave me a referral to a landscaper. From there I went to Cingular and griped fruther about how they made me suffer with terrible phones and I ended up walking out with two Motorola v400 phones! Wahoo! From there I went to Bi-lo for potatoes (for the kids potatoe guns) and ended up buying salmon and shrimp for dinner.
Had a terrific evening of fish, phones and fun!
New Airport Game! For the bored traveler you know have the ability to entertain yourself for hours. Compete against other travellers and have government paid referees determine the winner!
Took wife and baby downtown to pickup circus tickets; Amy slept. Had car trouble on the way back (transmission could be dying == $1500+- probably + or it could be a fluid problem). Went to Joanne’s and Gina’s to drop off Project Linus boxes. Went to Smart Toys (someone tell them I can fix their webpage) for a birthday present and Amy woke to get to play. Returned home to find our latchkey keys know how to get into the house.
Conversation with Tommy‘s teacher transcribed. Our phone systems should do this automatically! The technology is advanced enough. It’s silly that we don’t have automatic transcriptions of all phone conversations and meetings. And I don’t mean recordings. I mean electronic editable, searchable text documents.
I feel like I need a refund of several years of my life for all the wasted time documenting conversations with employees, covering my ass documentation, and documenting political meetings with places like the school system.
Home phone systems should automatically produce electronic transcripts for logging purposes.
Fort Campbell officer robs bank, surrenders Iraq sounds like such a fun place.
Wahoo! One more cover letter and resume sent. This for an IT Web Master Database Marketing Expert position. You have to love titles like that!
Ooops. Just noticed the cover letter I sent to the insurance company had the POB of the last company that the template was used for. I just gave them a strong reason to circular file my resume!
Wahoo! Submitted a cover letter and resume to a local insurance company that specifically asked for ColdFusion!
Ran to Kinko’s for more boxes. They’ll have even more this evening if we want them.
Went to Cingular and paid $128 cell phone bill. Stared at phones, drooled, dilerated, left without a new phone.
Went to United Printing and got more boxes. One of Noah’s scout buddy’s (Will) Dad (Jeff) runs the business!
Returned home. Working on cover letter. My cover letters suck.
Scientists find new face on Turin shroud
Deane Hill man wins case with MPC The neighborhood of elitists is in the news again. After failing to close of roads used as “shortcuts” through their neighborhood, they now choose to attack a neighborhood that has run an accounting business from his home for 5 years.
Rare whales spotted for first time in 20 years. Giant cigarette-shaped thing now moving away from earth Thanks Fark
Women plan to protest as topless barber shop opens Aw come on! We are staring at them anyway! Why not uncover them?! I’ve wanted a topless barber shop since I was 12!
Ray Bradbury praises Pres. Bush’s space plan; also says to ignore that gremlin on the plane wing looking in at you Too many good headlines by Fark today.
Sony’s new 25 GB Blu-Ray Disc made of paper. Finally, we can smoke our video games Thanks to Fark for the headline.
a magnetic motor that consumed almost no electricity This sounds like it belongs in The Museum of Unworkable Devices (see the original post for earlier comments).
Thanks to My Likes and Dislikes for the link.
