Some interesting things have been going on recently. Instead of writing a large diatribe that would probably just turn into one big amalgam of incoherent words and thoughts (can words be incoherent in the context of other words?), I thought I’d just put together a (relatively) brief list.
- I’ve had my Motorola v600 since June 2004. It’s a great phone; it has a camera (frivilous, but fun sometimes), Bluetooth, good voice quality, and an aestheticly pleasing and durable form factor. Unfortunately, over the past six months, it’s been getting finicky. It likes to randomly soft reset upon opening it and the exterior screen sometimes gets irrevocably screwed up without hard resetting. Also, sometimes people would call me and it would ring on their end but not on mine. I happen to know this isn’t a service issue for reasons not worth enumerating here. And most recently, starting about a month ago, the earpiece on my phone got screwed up and I could barely hear anybody on it. That is a deal breaker. So, with it being almost two years since buying it, and since I got a one-year contract instead of two (at the time, there was a rebate program, and I tend to be itching for a new phone in the last few months of a two-year contract — it *really* paid off this time), I was eligible for an upgrade. So, after looking at phones, I realized that cell phone technology has gone nowhere in the past two years. Not wanting to cough up 200$ for the same technology that I’d be stuck with for two years and after having friends rave over their’s, I got myself a Blackberry (with a two-year contract such to be eligible for the current rebate, and it damn well better last at least two years). I was looking at the 7100g at first, but after consideration, I ended going a step up and getting the 8700c. Now I have e-mail and web access over EDGE and a full QWERTY keyboard along with PIM functionality that I need. I am quite pleased with my new toy, but no more of those for a while.
- Dan, a friend of mine from my elementary school days, offered me a job to do network administration work for his business along with coding for some interesting stuff. I don’t want to say too much, but this should fill my employment void in the near-term. I doubt this will turn into anything long term (over six months), but it should be lots of fun, and it’s work until I find another job up my alley.
- I would be remiss to not note that today is Pi Day! Sharon said that the math club at UCLA is selling Π/4 pie for 2$. If I had time to go to UCLA today, I’d be all over that. But I will eat a slice of pie today. It’s a requirement. And an excuse to eat pie.
- Running has been going pretty well. I haven’t been quite as consistent in doing it as I would like, but given my fluid schedule right now (which should end soon because of aforementioned job), it’s hard to prevent. Upon commencing work, I will have some structure in my life around which I can run on a consistent basis.
- I’m leaving for New Jersey on Thursday night for Sharon’s brother’s (Marc) Bar Mitzvah. I haven’t been to one of these in a long time, and I even had to go buy a new suit, because I haven’t had the need for a suit in many years (weird, I know). I’ll be back Sunday night.
That’s it for personal goings-on for now. And I apologize for the title of this post. It won’t happen again…at least not for a while.