I’m still here….

Boss had a baby boy about three weeks ago, and I’ve been working a lot. In and of itself, that’s wouldn’t be a problem, but I’m the one who gets the calls from my co-workers whenever something goes wrong, and that gets old real fast. I guess that’s what I get for being there for so long. But that also means less posting here. Though to be honest, I’m more into Facebook…

• I saw some of the Stanley Cup playoffs last week. There was a lot of extra-curricular activity, though I think Raffi Torres’ 25 game suspension will tone that down. You’re going to be an example. You can either set the example, or we can make an example of you. The choice is yours. Although some of games I’ve seen would indicate the officials need to grow a pair, too.
• Wiped my tower. A month ago. And I’m still restoring it. I think my next purchase at Worst Buy will be a another Tb sized drive. While I do most of my web surfing & video streaming on my laptop, the tower still has plenty of oomph in it, and all my games work on it.
• My brother got a kindle fire. He had the original kindle before. Now I have it. The first book I ‘bought’ for it was Aesop’s fables. I hear the Pierce County Library now supports the kindle, so I suppose I should check out more books.
• I finally got the cable bill paid off. What happened was I fell behind one month, and I was just paying the past due amount every month. But I finally paid it off, and my bill is now current. T-Mobile was also paid off, once and for all, and I will never go back to them again. They have an ok network, and some good phones. But the employees are ass-holes and incompetent clods… Besides, my Sprint bill is less than T-Mobile for the same service, and they haven’t pulled a bait-and-switch on me…

Ok, that was only because I wanted to post a video. To be honest, I never heard this song when it first came out (IIRC Love and Rockets was originally an alternative band, and they weren’t on the radio stations that I was listening too. The very first Love and Rockets song i heard was So Alive, and at the time I hated it….

Not for the faint of heart

(I'm on my phone, I'll post the web-links later). I have an HTC EVO 3D. I love it. The Sprint 4G may be a bit spotty in some places, but it does the job with ease. My previous phone, the Sensation, I unlocked it with the Revolutionary tool. Then I installed recovery and went from there. That wasn't the case with my EVO. When I got it, it had hboot 1.5, which was locked. To unlock it, I had to use the HTC Dev tool. Which unlocked it so I could flash a recovery and install a custom ROM. But because the bootloader was locked, I couldn't flash a new kernel from recovery (most if the custom ROMs use different kernels), so I have to pull out the laptop and use the fastboot command to do it.

But there was an xda developer who wag just as annoyed by it as I was. And he figured out how to revert the hboot from 1.5 to 1.4. It's not for the faint of heart. I'd you don't know what you're doing, you'll end up with a $600 battery charger/paperweight. Long story short, I had to relock my phone, reflash a stock ROM, and then intentionally brick it. Then I had to boot into Linux, and run a special downgrade tool. Then I had to flash another stock ROM, and then run the Revolutionary tool.

But it's worth it. I'm now s-off on hboot 1.4 running my custom ROM.

Spring is finally here

Well, yesterday was the Godless Pagan Holiday (Spring). I would've offered the customary human sacrifice for it were it not for the fact the ram's blood is so expensive (and there's the whole it being illegal part, too...). But the  rain is gone for now, and our extraterrestrial overlords are now flying that big yellow UFO in the sky (it is more likely for for us to get invaded by aliens than to have sunny weather in western Washington...). This marks the first day this year that I can put the heavy coat away and go with a sweatshirt...

My boss had been pregnant for about the last nine months or so. Emphasis on the past tense. Thursday night/Friday morning, she had a baby boy. I don't know too many of the particulars, I just saw the pictures on Facebook, and they're not answering the phones (and I'm not calling them, either).