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WEEK 52 2005
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Martinez was to have had a New Year Party down on Main Street, but it has been canceled due to rain induced flooding. I was down near there, on a walk with the dog, earlier, and didn't see any real damage, just some waterlogged leaves and such. I imagine the police and fire would rather keep themselves in readiness for more than a drunken street party.
Too bad though...
I must correct myself, I bought the SD card, yesterday, in an Office Max next to Fry's - it was on sale and the same price, and there were no huge lines at the OM store!
I've noticed a sudden flood of ads for cheap dialup internet access. I guess all those people who received new PC's for Christmas want to get online. Netzero, Juno, and so on, are getting while the getting is good.
Went by Fry's, and picked up a SD card for the PDA. The PDA memory is volatile - if the battery dies you lose all your data. There is, supposedly, a built in backup battery, good for a couple of days, but... The PDA does, in fact, burn through the battery rather quickly. There are a few bigger replacement batteries out there that I am looking into - 2200mAH and 3550mAH instead of the anemic 1490mAH it comes with. I am also intrigued by the various "bluetooth" devices that it can communicate with. From what I can tell "bluetooth" is just a very low power radio link standard. You can attach wireless headpieces, wireless GPS devices, and other things. Interesting stuff.
It's interesting, but this year will end well for this blog. In the sense that I don't need to tack an extra day onto the end, or cut it short - "week_52_2005.html" will be exactly seven day's worth of entries. First time that's happened.
In other news, I had an errand to run, over in Berkeley. It was much as I recalled, small busy streets, many one way, with small poorly designed signs. Not a lot of change. One new thing was Martin Luther King Way, which runs parallel to and between Shattuck and Sacramento streets. It used to be Grove Street, but was obviously changed at some point.
A present for me arrived today, a Verizon VX6600 PDA, from a friend. I'm embarassed to accept it, it's so awesome. It does internet, phone, contacts, pictures, and a host of other things that I'm not sure of. I need to sit down with the manual and figure things out - all I can say is "Wow".
Just, wow, how amazing...
Despite getting a survey, having it sent to the insurance company, we still had trouble getting a policy. So, finally, despairing of them actually sending him a final quote, Bob just sent them a check for the original estimate in JULY. Heh. That did it, a week later we had a "binder". I guess no-one wanted to explain to their company comptroller why they were sending money back!
In other news, it started to storm, a good storm. I feel a bit guilty
for wishing it on the rest of California, but then, what did they
ever do for me, besides annoying me on the freeway? So, it looks good,
a nice stand alone base unit, that can also connect up to a PC, and
receives the outdoor weather sensor signals via wireless.
Monday 26 December 2005
Our only complaint? Despite forecasts of storm and wind it is flat
calm, with no rain. Foggy and generally yucky, but nothing to test out
the WS. Sheesh.
We had a nice get together of the family, a few presents, and a nice dinner. Altogether a very nice day.
And, done.
