I’m having an issue with SMS that’s seriously twisting my panties in a knot. I have a friend, and the things she says are important to me.
It is somewhat distressing to find that a disturbing number of her messages are not reaching me. I am DROID/Verizon, she is Crackberry/nTelos. I’ve beaten Google about the search box looking for a trend on any one of or combination of those attributes so I know where to start fixing.
I can’t find a trend, and Verizon (predictably) blames nTelos. I’m at least a little distraught, probably more than I’ll admit here, and am begging you fine readers for thoughts.
Our Weight Watchers meetings are on Monday afternoons. Since yesterday was MLK, we won’t have a meeting this week. Out of a desire for consistency, I rely on only their scales, so no weigh in until next Monday. Instead, I have something far more concrete to celebrate than a number on a scale.
I’m out of notches on my belt.
Since I’ve started this, every so often the pants would slip down just a bit too much and i’d ratchet in another notch. I went to do that this morning, and suddenly found myself on the last hole, in the good direction. And for the first time counted – 5. I’ve come in 5 belt notches, and I have to bunch the waistband of the pants.
And more, I’m completely surprised how big this feels to me.
Another peek into the mysterious world of Music the Furry Guy Likes:
Elvis Costello is a lyricist’s lyricist. What he writes is intricate and completely non-obvious, but it still works musically and is accessible. That, coupled with the passion he puts into his performances, make him one of the musical gems of our time.
That, and one of my favorite lines ever comes from this song: “I’ve been wading through all of this unbelievable junk and wondering if I should’ve given the world to the monkeys.”
Dos does basic web installation. Entire server hosed. Film at eleven.
It seems only appropriate to link to the tool of my destruction: Patrick Henry Cycling. It’s still just filler, but I’m kinda fond of the rascal in a “your pain to me has been educational” sort of way.
Some of you may have noticed that TDS was slightly, erm, “completely dead” today. There’s a perfectly valid reason.
I am an idiot.
No, no, let me explain. Without the aid of backups or a full dose of coffee, I attempted to move a blog from a scratch folder to a live domain. This, I managed to pull off.
I then attempted to clean up the scratch folder. This, I mangled horribly. I pulled the pin on rm -rf. I believed I was in the scratch directory.
I was wrong.
My morning began by watching a few thousand files vanish into the digital abyss – and then couldn’t do anything about it because I had to walk away from the mess to go to work.
I am saved by one thing only – my host serves the databases from a different shared server than my files.
Over the Christmas holidays, I gained 3.6 lbs in the form of fantastic food with family and friends. I spent the past week returning the gift, and a bit more.
I’m down 4.2 lbsfor the week, for a total so far of 23.4 lbs gone.
My text messaging has taken a recent upward turn. I’ve been carrying a 250 message feature on my line. $5 is reasonable, and it’s been covering me fine… but here it is only a third the way into the m/onth and I’ve almost hit the limit.
I thought about just increasing my line up a step, but I noticed something. After reviewing the current plans and promotions, I realized that upgrading the account would appear to cost an extra $20, but it would also automatically cover some features I have on – everybody gets the feature (unlimited txt, for instance), I loose a line charge or three, and the apparent $20 turns into a flat push.
Seriously. It’s basically panning out as a free account upgrade, and it might end up costing less as some of the usage charges I know I’ve been seeing should be swallowed up in that magic word “unlimited”.
The fine folks over at BBSpot have their own scoop on the upcoming Apple Tablet. It sounds interesting, but I have my own source that tells me that it will actually come in two colors, but Jobs keeps forgetting because of a memory protection fault in the other version.