Randomly Lost...

This week at work was a little more stressful than I previously had, but it
was also after a holiday. There were some gremlins on the network that were
causing IP conflicts that were difficult to troubleshoot.

I’ve decided that for the weekend, since I left work a little early, to
head to my parents for the weekend. I’ll be going back to Houston on
Sunday. I had all of my “required” hours in for the week and it was very
quiet at the office today, so I headed to my parents.

As a present to myself, I’m going to get some headphones tomorrow, but I
haven’t decided on the exact brand yet. I do know that they’re going to be
Bluetooth capable headphones so that I don’t choke on a cord when sleeping.
I like listening to music when trying to relax, when I’m sleeping, and when
I’m working. The type of music is dependent on what I’m doing at the time.
They’ll also come in handy on the tablet for when I’m watching movies…
Rather than having a cord that I have to deal with, I’ll go wireless. :)

So… This weekend, I turn 29… It’ll be my first birthday without alcohol
since I was a teenager. I know that it’ll be ok, but at the same time, I’m
having thoughts about it at the moment. I know that the thoughts will pass
eventually.

I feel that I’m ready to settle down with someone, but I want to have all
of my own personal life together before making a serious commitment to
someone. I want to be financially secure and debt free prior to making any
relationships. However, if I keep waiting, I think that I might miss out on
a great person. So… I’m going to maybe take the chance anyway against my
own advice. :P

The only thing that is stressful at the moment is my commute. I finally
have the ability to pay most, if not all, of my bills. I still have my AT&T
bill that I’ll slowly pay off because I canceled their service.

In 3 weeks, I’ll have a loan paid off and then I’ll start on my credit card.

Things are finally working out for me and falling into place. It’s just
happening slowly, but at the same time quickly. It’s difficult to explain
other than that major changes have occurred in my life in a small amount of
time.

Think the complete opposite when they say that they’re:
“cool”, “easy going”, “down to earth”, or “nice”…

I’ve found that most guys that describe them as such are the complete
opposite.

I think that there should be a “Miss Manners” of etiquette for such
applications or sites. This could be applied to almost any site that I’ve
found or that I’ve been on…

Also, I find it difficult to believe that those that are shirtless or are
VERY revealing of themselves are “not looking”. You’re basically
advertising yourself… So, do you really want friends that just want to
hang out with you (in a completely platonic way) because of your 6pack abs?
…

So, I’ve found out via the Tumblr staff blog that I can supposedly post via
email and have tags, so this is a test of that functionality. :)

At the moment, everything in my life is working for the better.

I got the job that I had been wanting for years… I’m starting to pay off bills and become more financially secure.

However, I definitely noticed something while attempting to get back into dating.

On most of the “dating” sites or services: the ones that I want, don’t want me… then the ones that do want me, I don’t want.

I haven’t been in the dating pool for the most part because I didn’t want to play any of the games. I still don’t want to play the games, but at least now I know I really don’t.

For example, there was a person in Bay City who I had hung out with, then he avoids me… If you’re not interested, at least grow a pair and say so.

On my birthday, two different groups of friends are having events. I don’t know which one, if any, that I’ll go to. This will be my first birthday w/o alcohol, so I might just go to Lambda for a meeting that night and not do anything too special. Maybe I’ll hangout with Beth or something if she’s free.

I think it’s official that I’ve moved. My desktop is at the house that I’ve been staying at. I guess it’s the official mark that a geek has moved. I get along great with my housemate and we haven’t had any issues. Which is somewhat strange because I usually don’t get along with people that I live with…

The commute has been kicking my ass, but I think that it’ll be worth it in the end. I might eventually move closer to work, but I like living where I’m at now. I just get up a little earlier and leave earlier to make it on time.

I’m still working out the kinks on how I’m going to blog from this device, mostly because the browsers don’t play well with tumblr, there’s no official tumblr app, and I might just end up posting via email. I need to read the documentation on posting by email to see if adding hash tags at the end of it will add tags or how I can add tags to posts. I think that I might use the word processor application on the device and then paste it into a client that supports pasting…

Surprisingly, I can’t paste from my clipboard into either browser… Go figure. :)

This device has definitely grown on me for sure. I like it’s portability and ease of use.

There’s a couple of issues that I’ve had to find work arounds for. First, in connectbot, I couldn’t use !@#$%^&*() from the keyboard… The * is very important when doing things in bash as well as $. :P

That’s been resolved by using a port/fork of the project that someone else used.

Also, depending on what site I’ll be on determines which browser I’ll be using.

I know it sounds silly, but some don’t support Flash (such as Chrome), and others are a complete B**** to copy/paste from.

Others display some sites better than others. 

I wish there was just one REALLY good browser that supports all the keyboard shortcuts and flash. Chrome would be perfect if it would ever support Flash.

My allergies have been driving me crazy lately. I’ve been sneezing since I’ve been at my parents house which I don’t fully understand. In my bedroom, I have an airfilter that’s cleaning the air… I wonder if it’s something outside or inside that’s causing the issue/s.

I’ll be moving my desktop this weekend whenever I go back to Westbury. I think that’s an official statement of my living situation. I’ve noticed that once a geek moves their desktop, they’ve officially moved somewhere. I asked my friend if he was ok with it, and he said yes… So… I think I’ve moved to Westbury.

Since my TV is malfunctioning, I’ve given my mom my Roku and my Logitech Harmony remote… She’s diggin Netflix. However, since she’s using my account, I’ll need to get her an account sometime soon so that my and her recommendations don’t conflict with each other. Also, I had to remove a few things from the Instant Queue before she logged in. :)

I don’t have a lot of things… The most important material things were my phone, my laptop, and my desktop. I’ve gotten rid of the laptop by replacing it with the Asus tablet/whatever you want to call it, and am moving my desktop. My phone is also an important thing to me because it’s what keeps me in touch with the world when I’m isolated at work.

I’m considering moving a bed into the room that I’m staying in that’s larger than a twin size. The main reason is that the twin doesn’t have a lot of room, obviously. However, I’m going to need to organize the room, so I might go back early so that I can get the room organized in a better fashion for it to be ready for more long term residency.

Thank g-d my friend has a garage and storage shed. I don’t think there’s much that we can put in the shed since it’s exposed to the elements, but it’s definitely cool to have extra storage.

Since I’ll be moving my desktop into that room, I won’t be getting a TV for a while… If I do, I’ll use it as a second monitor since everything I watch is via the network or Internet.

I wonder what it’ll be like when I start school again. I know that I’ll be able to post in forums, etc… However, I don’t know how much school work / documents I’ll be able to write on this device… so I guess it’ll have to wait until I get home. I can do all my reading on this, and then homework and presentations on the desktop. Work has provided a laptop for me to use while at home if I need to VPN into the office to do any work. I don’t think that they’ll mind if I do SCHOOLWORK on it as long as it’s on personal time. Otherwise, their laptop is just sitting in the carrying case.

I think that the main reason I wanted to switch was that I was tired of carrying around two full size laptops. I went with this one because of its tablet form factor, but I really like using the dock on it for typing. If I’m ever rich, I’ll consider getting a netbook to put Ubuntu on.

I think there’s some hacks out there to put Ubuntu on this, but since I’ll be using it as both, a tablet, and a netbook, I don’t think it’s that good of an idea unless Ubuntu has touch screen abilities, etc.

Hmmmmmm. I’ll definitely research that some more now that I think about it. :)

In the end, a netbook by itself would’ve been cheaper… but I like being able to make selections directly where I want to without using the trackpad. :)

My Nikon D60 died… Well, I’ve read that it can be fixed, but I don’t think that it’s worth the effort. The shutter mechanism keeps failing and you have to manually turn the gears for it to reset it. I’m thinking that I’ll wait a while and buy a new camera once I get back into it or it peeks my interest again.

The device, I’ll call it “The Asus Pad” for short, can do almost everything I “need”… It does everything that I normally did with my laptop. Movies, browsing, blogging, and email… However, I don’t recommend it as a complete replacement for most people. I have SSH and I can RDP to my desktop at home if I need to do other things. :)

I think that’s all that I have to ramble about regarding the device and things happening with moving and replacement of technology…

I suppose it’ll be ok to do updates via email, but I think that I’ll be
lacking some of the options that I normally have in the dashboard…

I wonder how this post is going to look. In reality, it doesn’t really
matter as long as the information or thoughts get out there.

There have been a couple of things going on that have been bugging me a
little, and I’ll need to vent soon… so, I’ll be posting on here later. :)

I haven’t been staying in touch with people as much as I should. I logged
into my “real” facebook account for the first time in a few days today.

A couple of people are having things going on my birthday. I’m wondering if
I should go to either of them or if I should just go to my parents and
relax for the weekend.

Today, I gave my nephew the kindle that I had purchased last year… I gave
it to him for his birthday, preloaded with the book series that he’s
currently reading. I also included some other books to help maybe broaden
his horizons.

Last night, I wiped my laptop and gave it to my mom. I also gave her my old
phone (Inspire 4G) and AT&T detected it… woops… anywho, it’s all gravy
now.

I’ll still be getting her a new phone that has a keyboard (Motorola
Milestone), but her phone was crashing and malfunctioning often, so I
figured she might as well get some use out of my very expensive
paperweight.

She said that she might not even want a new one, but this one is cracked at
the bottom of the screen.

It’ll eventually get worse, so I’ll keep shopping for a replacement for her.

Since I’ve gotten the tablet with dock and keyboard, I gave her my laptop
since the only thing I ever used my laptop for was watching movies,
browsing, email, music, and shows… So… My tablet does all of that and
it’s a lot lighter. If I have anything that’s more “processor” intensive or
requires Windows, I’ll use my company laptop if it’s work related or it can
just wait until I get home to my desktop.

On that note… I think I’ll be moving my desktop from my parents to my
friend’s house that I’ve been staying at.

Or…. I can just be “computer less” when I’m at home to help reduce
distractions. When I start school again, I wonder how I’m going to work on
all of that… Maybe RDP to my desktop at home if it’s ever necessary?
Otherwise, I can do all of my typing and schtuff from my tablet…

When it’s docked… Is it still considered a tablet? lmao

I’ve made the decision finally… and I purchased a tablet that happens to also have a dock.

I’m giving my mom my old laptop. I went ahead and hacked my old Inspire4G to be “Edge only” so that she could use it until I can buy her a new phone. More than likely, it will be the Motorola Milestone… It’s a decent phone for the price and will be A LOT easier to use than the Inspire.

Mostly, I think that the lack of a keyboard might drive her insane. I know it took me a while to get adjusted to it.

Anywho…

I’m considering my tablet w/ dock to be a “laptop replacement”. When using a personal Internet device, I mostly just use it for email, movies, music, and keeping in touch with people. Also, I use Tumblr.

Unfortunately, there isn’t an official Tumblr app for the tablet yet, but there will be eventually. For now, I’ll just use the web based dashboard to do posts. It isn’t that bad.

I tether using my phone and use wifi whenever possible, so that’s not of concern.

For those that are interested, I got the Asus tablet that came out after the Prime… It has 32 gigs of storage, 1 gig of RAM, and a quad core processor.

http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/detail.jsp?skuId=5359476&pid=1218635271532&ev=prodView

I think that this will be ok for me to use as my personal device. I will have a desktop at home, and on the road or any time that I want to do casual browsing and some updates, I can use this tablet. It’s powered by Android 4.0/ICS and it’s snappy as hell. It’s more responsive than my old laptop. lol.

I guess that’s it for now. I can stop obsessing over it. I don’t see the point in lugging around 9 lbs of a computer when I can just take a tablet with a dock for the same functionality for the most part. I have a laptop from work for when they need me to work for them, so I was carrying around two laptops.

Now, it’s going to be my laptop from work and my tablet with dock. I wonder if I can use one of the “netbook” carrying bags/cases for the dock and tablet together… Otherwise, I just have a folio for the tablet. I’ll figure something out.

I’ll eventually get another SD card for it, but I won’t need it for a while.

Peaces.

Create a separate tumblr account to keep track of the blogs that are a little too racy for a professional image… Or just modify my blog so that it doesn’t show the blog roll?

Edit: I’ve just modified the theme so that it isn’t completely public on which blogs I follow… Since some of them are rather… HAWT. ;)

Sitting down at a cafe to jot down my thoughts… pausing to think about what word to write next… since it was written in ink. No wasted effort in scratching out or rubbing out the words…

Having to create with thought and built in censors… No quick erase or automatic spell check.

Sometimes I miss writing that way… having something tangible.

Although, I’d end up transcribing it anyway…. so, now I just skip a step.

But I miss those days in a way.

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I need to find a BT keyboard for my phone for blogging purposes since this one is too small.

I noticed something that made me a little embarrassed today. When I had my tumblr page open, one of the blogs I followed posted a complete hottie that wasn’t completely safe for work…

So, from now on, I’ll just use my phone. :)

Even though it’s a European company, there are a lot of Americans at this office that could have potentially been offended.

On another note, when I was walking down the stairs, someone looked at me in a way that hasn’t happened often. Instead of the occasional/quick glance to say hello, he paused for a moment and gave direct attention.

I find it somewhat interesting that it occurred since most of the time, my conversations and salutations are rather quick exchanges of greetings.

It was like the Nav’i “I see you.” Or something like that…. lol.

That is all for now.