May 2007

Summer Lethargy

It sets in. My current sleep schedule is about 17:00 to 9:00. Yay.

Last night Jacky and I went to dinner at Fazoli's and ended up seeing Shrek the Third. The franchise is losing steam, but it was still a great picture, a lot better than Spiderman 3. And we got to see ACM's own Don Schmidt in the credits at the end.

Also, I finally got one of those cards. They put it in the mailbox for the vacant unit next to mine for some unfathomable reason. Anyway, we have omega back up at ACM now.

A while back I subscribed to the new Napster. I really like it, but I was disappointed that I couldn't get my SMT5600 Smartphone, which was listed as a supported mobile device, to work with it. The Napster software didn't detect it upon connection as it was supposed to. Tonight, however, I got the great idea to try using Windows Media Player. You see, Napster uses Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM technology, and I had been using WMP to play the songs I had downloaded off of Napster offline. Sure enough, WMP detected my device and successfully transferred the tracks with licenses to my Smartphone, so now I can use it to listen to my music. That's one thing I have to say, MS stuff tends to work with other MS stuff.

Right now I'm doing some work while watching one of the Blockbuster Online DVDs that has been sitting on my TV for weeks. I have quite a bit of work to get done, and quite a bit of money owed me to collect. I need to start bugging some people.

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 20:17:48 UTC in Personal - Permanent link

Cruel Summer

Greetings! This is my first post in loooooong time. I doubt anyone still reads this. Whatever.

So my apartment is very warm. 80 degrees by the thermometer on my wall clock. I may have to start working from ACM if it stays this hot. My cable modem connection dying every couple hours doesn't help things either.

Today saw a very abrupt thunderstorm. There were very short bouts of pouring rain and high winds, but it was over in less than an hour.

The most interesting thing that happened today was the tree that fell across the street from my apartment. It's kind of scary, actually. It was right behind my driveway, and I had left in my car just about a half-hour before it happened.

A half-hour later two guys from the city showed up with a woodchipper. A little later some firemen came out of the station next door and stood there watching them chop it up. I found it amusing to see firemen as the rubberneckers for a change.

Anyway, I have work to do, then there's a new House tonight. Hopefully I'll get at least one of the HME ethernet cards I ordered tomorrow, so that we can get some work done at ACM.

Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 08:38:23 UTC in Personal - Permanent link