It's going to be good weather tomorrow.

I can tell. I just got off the phone with my boss. I got called in on my day off.

Sometimes even with a half-assed job

You can still win. Case in point, the eagles tonight. Their performance was horrendous. But they still won. And they had the lead for only the first quarter and the final 15 seconds. But having the lead only counts at the end of the game...

So I'm watching some football...

Namely, a rerun/rebroadcast if the Eagles-Jaguars game. It's just into the second quarter, and I'm not impressed with Micheal Vick. You can go on & on about how he's turned his life around, but when it comes down to it, it's all about the results. I'm not seeing the same results from Vick that I am from McNabb. And when it comes down to it, having 2 quarterbacks on the field simultaneously doesn't win games. And it appears that the Eagles (with Vick) are getting the shit beat out of them.

What you do off the field is essentally irrelevant (provided you're not breaking the law). It's what you do on the field, and the results therein is what wins games. And I think the Eagles need to concentrate more on fundamentals (like not fumbling)....

And of course the Raiders are only going to one place: down the toilet…

Ok I haven't done this in a while…

It's time ti wipe and rebuild my system. I last did it in May, and now is good timeto do it. I have a recent back-up handy, and I have the day off.

I just got in...

It's now about 7:30. I left work at 3:30. Where the four hours go? True I stopped to grab a bite, and then I had to go to Wally World. My, how times flies when you're commuting home in the Friday rush hour, running errands on the. Way...

Happy Birthday, Robert Plant

You may remember him from some obscure band called Led Zeppelin, though he did have a solo career…

Yes, I could’ve/would’ve/shoudl’ve posted from his other band, but as an ‘80s child I never heard Zeppelin growing up. This was my first exposure to his work.

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Way to go, RIM….

It took 3 calls to T-Mobile, 1 visit to a T-Mobile store, multiple soft resets and 1 hard reset. But I have a working phone again. Here’s what happened:

Sunday morning I noticed I was getting het with a bunch of messages from friendster and Facebook. But they weren’t mine. They weren’t even being sent to any of my accounts. And they weren’t sms/mms messages (RIM and T-Mobile both have confirmed you can’t send HTML formatted text messages). So I called T-Mobile. And the said upgrade to blackberry 4.5. Which is what I had already ( so I couldn’t do it). A visit to the T-Mobile store, and my phone was hard reset (causing me to lose all my data, and apps). And they still kept coming in. One more call, and the support droid said to delete my email accounts and add them manually. And I still kept getting them. So I called again, and this time I told them point-blank that I wanted to talk to RIM. So off to RIM I went. The level 1 technician took some information (including my phone’s PIN) and had me forward one of the messages to him. After being on hold for and extended period of time, I was handed off to a level 2 tech. And he promptly explained what happened. Somebody in Indonesia set up wireless notices for his/her blackberry and the pin they entered was off by one character. And the resulting pin was my phone’s. So, the offending account was deleted.

And I have my sanity back…

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It was my birthday yesterday...

And really appreciate all the well-wishes I got. A kind word beats any present. Anytime. Not that I didn't get anything (actually I got a couple of things), if I really want or need it, I'll get it myself. Life changes when you realize the truth of by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread. But I did get a new video card, so I can use my second monitor (hey, I gotta have my toys...). It's still an entry model card, but it's better than what it replaced. I don't care about horsepower anymore, as long as the job gets done. And I want to use my second monitor again.

He’s back

Brett Favre just can’t stay retired. Yes, that’s right: he’s back. He just can’t leave well enough alone. Well, maybe not that case, but still this is yet another has-been who’s coming back and will most likely get himself seriously hurt. Any, the NFL is making a couple of rule changes to accommodate the senior citizen players this year:

• On the sideline, there will be a registered nurse with prune juice, geritol, and a bran muffin.
• The offensive formations will be altered to allow him to use a walker, and failing that…
• An extra player may be appointed to push his wheelchair.
• There will also be extra time-outs to allow for the changing of the depends..
• And there will also be an extra time-put to allow him to find his dentures should he lose them…

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Attention Feedmil.com

I’m only going to say this once, so pull your face really close to the monitor to read this:

You’re a spammer. Go to hell.

Any questions?

And this would apply to anybody else wishing to send me unsolicited commercial email regarding my blog.

Even though it's summer

It still rains on my day off...

It's finally here again...

After 7 long months, it's back. Football season is here again. When I upgraded my cable a couple of months ago, I made sure that we were going to get the NFL Network. And now I'm watching a rerun of the Hall Of Fame game. Football ought to be watched in HD. With a home theater sound setup...

Now let's just see how many games I can actually watch...

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What wonderful summer weather...

Ok, the heat wave last week was a little too much the other way. But this is august, when we're supposed to have the token blue skies...

But I'll take the cloudy days over triple digit temperatures any day.

Edit: Yes, that’s what August in Washington State looks like on occasion. But we did hit triple digit temperatures last week….

Pull your pants up!

Yes, I'm sending a picture of a full moon. No really important reasom I'm doing this for. It's just with the clouds coming it, it looks kinda spooky. Almost enough to turn one into a lawyer...

Edit: Yes, I know it’s a crappy picture. If you think you can do a better job, then go get your own blog….

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The difference of one week.

It's been a week since the heat wave. Last wednesday, the tempuratures were well into triple digits. And I can assure I felt it all, with my bedroom having a westward facing window. And at the same time they were trying to paint the outside of my apartment' which meant covering my window with plastic film, thereby cutting off my only ventilation and adding only more misery. But the heat wave has broken, and temperatures are no where I can tolerate them.

My birthday is in two weeks. The rain should return then, like it did last year...

Let's have another shot at it...

Ok, one more try at this. If this doesn't work, I'll go back to MMS'ing Blogger directly...

Edit: I should probably just delete this post, but I’ll leave it in. This is just a test post from my Blackberry again.

Move Along Citizen. There Is Nothing To See Here. Again.

Never mind what you see here, I'm just playing around with my new phone. More exactly, I'm seeing how well I can blog from my phone. With my T619 and my Z3, I was basically limited to sending an MMS to go@blogger.com. And so I was limited to text and pictures. When I got my Shadow, I could download software to post directly, but was always hit or miss, usually the latter. Allegedly I can now post videos with this software, but that will wait for another post...

Edit: the software in question is cellspin on my Blackberry…

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Another new phone….

My T-Mobile Shadow finally died. It didn’t really die. I slid it open at work, and then I had to go take care of a customer, so I closed it, and I heard something snap. The spring that holds the keypad open or closed broke, and for the past two weeks, I’ve been using a rubber band to hold it together.

Today, I got paid. So I went to Wally World. And I was looking at the T-Mobile selections they had there, and I ended up ordering something I though I never would: A CrackBerry Curve (more precisely, a  CrackBerry Curve 8320) It’s a bit different than my previous WIndows Mobile phones. But then again, RIM probably does a better job than The Anti-Christ.

Unlike my Motorola Z3 and my Shadow, I bought this phone new. So I got a protection plan for it, because I don’t have the $500+ to replace it….

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