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llcoolvadTuesday: Worked. Was ok. Stayed a little late. Came home. Dinner with Patrick. Watched tv.
Wednesday: Worked. Was at home, so better than ok. Logged off on time. Dinner with Brian. Watched tv.
There you go, an entry.
OK, fine, I left out a few details.
Friends/Family: Patrick's driver's side car window exploded on him Tuesday on his way home from work, for no discernible reason. Scary! Just thinking about how I might have reacted if the same thing happened to me (I visualize a bit of a shriek, and probably driving right off the road and into a parked car) makes me nervous. I eyed my window driving home last night, gave it encouraging "do not explode" warm thoughts. It seemed un-fazed.
Today while I was chained to my desk on a deadline, Brian ventured out ahead of the storm to turn in our huge pile of returnables and to pick up lunch and a couple of snack-type things at the grocery store. I am occasionally reminded of how nice it is to have someone else around to get things done. I didn't really have that, living with Mom. If I didn't do it, it mostly didn't happen. So hooray for boyfriends! A year and a half into living together, and I am still being pleasantly surprised by things.
Mom is still crazy.
Entertainment: I've been all discombobulated by changing cable providers and by it being the new spring season. Everything's on a different night and at a different time, and I can't get used to the new channel numbers. I've had Comcast for 14 years? Something like that. So I am finding RCN's lineup disorienting even with the Tivo. Where do I go? What channel? Sigh. I feel like I'm 90, sometimes.
Watched the SOTU last night, the second half anyway, and I found the president to be as reasonable and intelligent as always, and every bit as middle-of-the-road as I've sadly realized he is. I do wish the administration was a little better at trumpeting their wins to the wide world, but I guess I just need to work a little harder to hear them.
Also spent the last two days sneaking bits of the book I'm currently reading, pretty much every free second I get (still love my kindle, still love ebooks). I really get more reading done than I would if I were depending on dead-tree media. Although right now Brian and I are both in the middle of books on the kindle, so I have to keep handing it to him and then waiting to get it back (I haven't figured out yet how to sync a non-Amazon file to my iPhone kindle reader, and since I'm almost done with the book I haven't bothered to kludge something up. My guess is that I just need to use a different reader and not have the nice page-tracking that the kindle app does, but I am not sure of that yet).
Chores/Organizing: I've been making some progress on sorting out my digital life. In the last couple of weeks I've: cleaned out my gmail account and put in unsubscribe requests to regular merchant-type email; cleaned out 40,000 unread messages on my yahoo email account; cleaned out my work laptop (I anticipate a soonish upgrade); put a bunch of files in Dropbox; tweaked some sync settings for Chrome so all my computers get the same bookmarks and setting and so forth; and deleted a bunch of duplicate stuff. I still need to unsubscribe on my yahoo account (my main account, alas) and I need to do more Dropbox tweaking. I don't think I have gushed about it over here, but MAN, do I love Dropbox! Two gigs of free storage for files, great security, ability to share with others, and best of all it will sync itself across all the computers you want it to. I now have four computers in regular rotation, and having my core subset of files wherever I am (even on my iPhone!) is totally key. I plan to keep just about everything in it (except photos and music, of course); I think it's big enough. I have most of the stuff I use regularly already in it and I'm at 10% capacity. Nice. I love cloud dwelling.
Money: still being frugal. I chipped a few more bucks per month out of the budget yesterday by downgrading my Netflix account. I don't really ever get to watching DVDs, so I dropped it from 2 at a time to one, a savings of $5. Whoo! I might need to try a little harder in the next couple of days. Always chipping away!
Tomorrow I can sleep in and not have to deal with commuting in the snow. Took the day off, so I can maybe get some sleep and maybe get some more stuff (productive stuff) done. Or maybe I'll just read all day!
Wednesday: Worked. Was at home, so better than ok. Logged off on time. Dinner with Brian. Watched tv.
There you go, an entry.
OK, fine, I left out a few details.
Friends/Family: Patrick's driver's side car window exploded on him Tuesday on his way home from work, for no discernible reason. Scary! Just thinking about how I might have reacted if the same thing happened to me (I visualize a bit of a shriek, and probably driving right off the road and into a parked car) makes me nervous. I eyed my window driving home last night, gave it encouraging "do not explode" warm thoughts. It seemed un-fazed.
Today while I was chained to my desk on a deadline, Brian ventured out ahead of the storm to turn in our huge pile of returnables and to pick up lunch and a couple of snack-type things at the grocery store. I am occasionally reminded of how nice it is to have someone else around to get things done. I didn't really have that, living with Mom. If I didn't do it, it mostly didn't happen. So hooray for boyfriends! A year and a half into living together, and I am still being pleasantly surprised by things.
Mom is still crazy.
Entertainment: I've been all discombobulated by changing cable providers and by it being the new spring season. Everything's on a different night and at a different time, and I can't get used to the new channel numbers. I've had Comcast for 14 years? Something like that. So I am finding RCN's lineup disorienting even with the Tivo. Where do I go? What channel? Sigh. I feel like I'm 90, sometimes.
Watched the SOTU last night, the second half anyway, and I found the president to be as reasonable and intelligent as always, and every bit as middle-of-the-road as I've sadly realized he is. I do wish the administration was a little better at trumpeting their wins to the wide world, but I guess I just need to work a little harder to hear them.
Also spent the last two days sneaking bits of the book I'm currently reading, pretty much every free second I get (still love my kindle, still love ebooks). I really get more reading done than I would if I were depending on dead-tree media. Although right now Brian and I are both in the middle of books on the kindle, so I have to keep handing it to him and then waiting to get it back (I haven't figured out yet how to sync a non-Amazon file to my iPhone kindle reader, and since I'm almost done with the book I haven't bothered to kludge something up. My guess is that I just need to use a different reader and not have the nice page-tracking that the kindle app does, but I am not sure of that yet).
Chores/Organizing: I've been making some progress on sorting out my digital life. In the last couple of weeks I've: cleaned out my gmail account and put in unsubscribe requests to regular merchant-type email; cleaned out 40,000 unread messages on my yahoo email account; cleaned out my work laptop (I anticipate a soonish upgrade); put a bunch of files in Dropbox; tweaked some sync settings for Chrome so all my computers get the same bookmarks and setting and so forth; and deleted a bunch of duplicate stuff. I still need to unsubscribe on my yahoo account (my main account, alas) and I need to do more Dropbox tweaking. I don't think I have gushed about it over here, but MAN, do I love Dropbox! Two gigs of free storage for files, great security, ability to share with others, and best of all it will sync itself across all the computers you want it to. I now have four computers in regular rotation, and having my core subset of files wherever I am (even on my iPhone!) is totally key. I plan to keep just about everything in it (except photos and music, of course); I think it's big enough. I have most of the stuff I use regularly already in it and I'm at 10% capacity. Nice. I love cloud dwelling.
Money: still being frugal. I chipped a few more bucks per month out of the budget yesterday by downgrading my Netflix account. I don't really ever get to watching DVDs, so I dropped it from 2 at a time to one, a savings of $5. Whoo! I might need to try a little harder in the next couple of days. Always chipping away!
Tomorrow I can sleep in and not have to deal with commuting in the snow. Took the day off, so I can maybe get some sleep and maybe get some more stuff (productive stuff) done. Or maybe I'll just read all day!
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Date: 2011-01-27 07:22 am (UTC)I've been using Calibre to manage my kindle files. I think it lets me move things onto my iPhone, but I don't believe they're readable through the iphone kindle app. I'll check next time.
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Date: 2011-01-29 06:22 am (UTC)A tiny bit of Stanza joy: when I read on my phone I usually hold it in my left hand. In the kindle app, to go to the next page I'd have to either use my right hand or reach my thumb over the screen to the right side of the phone to either tap or sweep. In Stanza you can set which side does what, so now I can go to the next page with my left thumb on the left of the page. Spiffy! A tiny irritant, gone. Can't use stanza for DRM'd kindle stuff, of course, but I think I'll use it for anything else...
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Date: 2011-01-29 09:50 am (UTC)How do you like reading PDFs with Stanza? How does it do in practice? I see from the FAQ it can display them and there are occasional problems, but it doesn't give me a good sense of the experience.
I've got plugins for a few "mark this page and read en masse later on your Kindle" apps. I haven't gotten as far as the mass download yet, though. Any experience with them?
Finally, what book were you reading? You mention it's good enough to sneak.