NaBloPoMo

Saturation point (22 of 31/22 of 247)

January 22, 2009 by kathi

That’s it. I’ve reached the saturation point. There’s only so long I can sit in front of a computer screen for any reason. Over the last couple of days, work (and work brought home) has used up almost all of that “so long.”

So this will be very short.

I enjoyed this Washington Post article about the supposed “technological dark ages” at the White House. zOMG, no Macs!!1!! Of course, still keeping up on the updates regarding the First BlackBerry. After reading conflicting reports as to whether it is in fact a real BlackBerry or some overpriced “other” smartphone, I think it is in fact an actual BlackBerry.

I’m sure I’ll be back to my normally digital self tomorrow, and I’ll be a day closer to vacation as well. That will do wonders for my outlook, I am sure!

CrackBerry! (21 of 31/21 of 274)

January 21, 2009 by kathi

I’ve had my BlackBerry for only a couple of months, and I am already finding it even more vital to staying on top of things than I did my Palm. And that’s going some. I hesitate to use the word “addiction” yet, but I can see where the nickname “CrackBerry” comes from very easily.

So of course I’ve been following the story of whether or not Barack Obama would get to keep his BlackBerry. By now, we all know that it was approved for personal use. I got a kick out of the article the New York Daily News did a few weeks ago, where they asked a number of ad agencies to put together ads in support of Obama keeping his BlackBerry.

My favorite one was #9, showing a convo between BideN09 and POTUS4EVR.

Miscellany (20 of 31/20 of 274)

January 20, 2009 by kathi

I think I’ve finally got this e-mail posting thing working correctly. Of course, I thought that last night, too.
We did take a break this morning to watch the inauguration. Our office has a variety of opinions and expectations for the Obama administration. We all agreed that his speech was awesome, though.
Mom reports that even though the changeover to digital TV has already happened in Hawaii, some of the stations are still running so many PSAs you’d think no one got the message. And apparently some people didn’t until their TVs stopped working. Is that a predictor for next month in the rest of the country?
Had to bring work home tonight and I’m dreading it. I’m already feeling slow and tired, so this should go oh-so-well.
I miss Axel. Hurry up and finish and come home, puppy boy!
The forums I usually read are getting nasty again. Some of these jagoffs should maybe stop focusing on change in our nation and world, and change their own sorry f’ing selves and attitudes. The rebel thing is unflattering once the rest of your life makes it a lie.
Ooh find the happy place again!! I guess there is time for tea and cookies before getting back to the dreaded work task. Talk soon!

Technology kicked my butt again (19 of 31/19 of 274)

January 19, 2009 by kathi

EDIT: Apparently technology is kicking my butt in more ways than I posted about, since this post, too, was stuck in digital limbo for a bit. Look Twice, or more specifically, remote posting to Look Twice, really is fixed now!

There’s enough to do at work this week without technology glitches and failures stepping up to make life more ermmm… interesting. So, what happens? One of the routers goes belly up.

I think I might actually be lucky it didn’t catch on fire or something. When I disconnected it, it was hot. Really hot. Nothing else plugged into that power conditioner or that outlet seemed to be having any problems, and nothing else seemed to be running a temperature. So off to Office Depot I went to buy a cheap router to get us through a few more weeks. Some upgrades are planned, and since the old router would have only had to make it a few more weeks… it didn’t.

I guess I should also be glad it didn’t wait until I was on vacation to go belly-up. It would have created much greater panic if that had happened.

Office Depot had misinformation and a cheap router on sale for me. The misinformation didn’t mislead me, and the cheap router is happily taking care of things and not overheating and not almost catching on fire. And not going belly up!

Emotional investment (18 of 31/18 of 274)

January 18, 2009 by kathi

EDIT: The post below was supposed to go live on Sunday night, 1/18/09. Through what was almost certainly human error, I just noticed it was still marked as a draft. I’ve edited it to show its intended posting date and time, and I’m explaining mostly because I’m doing NaBloPoMo this month, not because it’s interesting in any way! I did technically have another live post yesterday, so I’m still ok, aren’t I?

I remarked to someone today that I had no emotional or financial investment in the playoff games, so I could just sit back and relax and enjoy watching football just for the fun of it (because I am online too much, I also Twittered it). And I am.

It made me think for a bit, though. I really can’t think of many things that I do have an emotional investment in that are not highly personal. I’ve never been a huge fan of any particular celebrity or sports team. Like, enjoy, admire… yes. Worship, follow, adore… not so much. Not ever.

In some ways, I envy people that can get so totally involved in something that isn’t part of their small portion of the world. I watch super fans of whatever team is finally going to the playoffs of [name the sport] after 10, 20 or 100 (ok, maybe that one applies only to my city) years, and I can almost admire their blind faith and devotion.

But in most ways, I just don’t understand it. Anyone want to explain it to me?