Halloween, except dressed as myself
Nov. 1st, 2004 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
standardtomThe weekend was good.
I did a lot of relaxing, but as usual didn't wind up going to bed until obscenely late on Monday morning, so as a result am still somewhat zombified today.
On Saturday, I mainly did some lazing around, and shopping on my own. Then Saturday night, we joined our niece Carolyn for her first time trick-or-treating, along with her parents and Crazy Grandma #1. I got a couple of kinda cool pictures of her with my phone camera, backlit by headlights in a really spooky fashion. :-)
After that, we all went and had pizza (except for Crazy Grandma #1, thankfully). I chatted for a good while before bed with the amazing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twilightcub, then called it a night.
Sunday morning, after a nice leisurely wakeup, we spent the afternoot running some errands. I had fun test-driving a Motorola MPx220 smartphone. I really want one of the smartphones, but I'd heard a few horror stories about the MPx220, but my experience with it was pretty good, though admittedly brief. The Best Buy sales lady handed the Cingular-branded phone it to me, and let me pop my AT&T Wireless SIM into it, and except for the expected settings mismatches for sending MMS messages, it worked perfectly. I'm still going to look at the new Audiovox SMT-5600 smartphones too, though. The screen on the Audiovox is a bit bigger, but I like the clamshell form factor of the Motorola better. I'm going to wait awhile, though, due to poverty and the fact that the merger of AT&T Wireless and Cingular currently has a number of factors up in the air that make waiting a bit seem like a good idea.
Once back home, I got busy pressure-washing the front of the house and the walk from the street to the front stoop, followed by watering the trees (it's raining today, thanks guys).
As I was resting for a bit, I got a call fromirishbeard as he and digibob were walking through the streets of Boston on their way to hear trapezebear's band perform. They were having a great time, and it was fun listening to both of them rave about how much they loved Boston and the friends they were meeting. I had thoroughly enjoyed Boston during our visit a couple of years ago, and knew they would too.
Following that, I went to the grocery store, came home, cooked supper, cleaned the kitchen, washed and folded two loads of clothes, then sat down tired, yet keyed up, and with a screwed-up internal clock, and wound up staying up until 2:00 in the morning chatting online withkebinjoonzu and my friend Doug in Dayton, OH.
I've not been nearly as tired and non-productive today as that late night would indicate.
After work today, I'm going to go test drive a car. Details to follow.
I did a lot of relaxing, but as usual didn't wind up going to bed until obscenely late on Monday morning, so as a result am still somewhat zombified today.
On Saturday, I mainly did some lazing around, and shopping on my own. Then Saturday night, we joined our niece Carolyn for her first time trick-or-treating, along with her parents and Crazy Grandma #1. I got a couple of kinda cool pictures of her with my phone camera, backlit by headlights in a really spooky fashion. :-)
After that, we all went and had pizza (except for Crazy Grandma #1, thankfully). I chatted for a good while before bed with the amazing
twilightcub, then called it a night.Sunday morning, after a nice leisurely wakeup, we spent the afternoot running some errands. I had fun test-driving a Motorola MPx220 smartphone. I really want one of the smartphones, but I'd heard a few horror stories about the MPx220, but my experience with it was pretty good, though admittedly brief. The Best Buy sales lady handed the Cingular-branded phone it to me, and let me pop my AT&T Wireless SIM into it, and except for the expected settings mismatches for sending MMS messages, it worked perfectly. I'm still going to look at the new Audiovox SMT-5600 smartphones too, though. The screen on the Audiovox is a bit bigger, but I like the clamshell form factor of the Motorola better. I'm going to wait awhile, though, due to poverty and the fact that the merger of AT&T Wireless and Cingular currently has a number of factors up in the air that make waiting a bit seem like a good idea.
Once back home, I got busy pressure-washing the front of the house and the walk from the street to the front stoop, followed by watering the trees (it's raining today, thanks guys).
As I was resting for a bit, I got a call from
irishbeard as he and digibob were walking through the streets of Boston on their way to hear trapezebear's band perform. They were having a great time, and it was fun listening to both of them rave about how much they loved Boston and the friends they were meeting. I had thoroughly enjoyed Boston during our visit a couple of years ago, and knew they would too.Following that, I went to the grocery store, came home, cooked supper, cleaned the kitchen, washed and folded two loads of clothes, then sat down tired, yet keyed up, and with a screwed-up internal clock, and wound up staying up until 2:00 in the morning chatting online with
kebinjoonzu and my friend Doug in Dayton, OH.I've not been nearly as tired and non-productive today as that late night would indicate.
After work today, I'm going to go test drive a car. Details to follow.
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Date: 2004-11-01 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-02 05:13 am (UTC)I've tested one of the Audiovox models too, and really liked it as well. I'm not so crazy about candy-bar phones, but I could get used to that. The bigger screen is also a definite plus. That, and the fact that this phone is already being sold under several different names around the world, and seems to be much more thoroughly debugged.
I have a Motorola V600 now, and so I've already been part of a Motorola retail beta program, and am not sure I want to do that again.
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Date: 2004-11-01 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-02 05:15 am (UTC)Ran out of time though. :-\
Will try again this afternoon, assuming it's not storming.
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Date: 2004-11-02 05:06 am (UTC)