It's about time Spring got here
The weather today is fantastic. I've started a small patio project in the backyard which should be a nice little addition for the summer. It'll be nice to have a place to put the grill and a small table and chair set. Hopefully this will also mark the end of our heating oil use. That stuff is so damn expensive :(
Had a fantastic time at Andy & Bonnie's housewarming! They have such a beautiful place there in Lauraville. You'd have no idea they were so close to the inner city. This also means that festival season is right around the corner... now THAT I can't wait for.
My work laptop was frustrating me with black screen freezing for the past month or so. I finally couldn't take it anymore and had it shipped back to Apple last week. Since then, I've been using an older Macbook Pro and while it has made me really appreciate my new one, it's ironic that the keyboard on the older model feels so much nicer than the new one. It's softer, the indent in every key makes them feel softer. It's just a better experience; go figure.
I've also been trying to get a few placeholders setup for work with the plague that is social media. A few of Twitter's registration functions have been down for a day and some change. Facebook's picture upload applet refuses to work for me on any browser, under any platform. And the two of them working together? Ugh, what a pain. What did we do before all this technology? It's a little funny to think that the concept of having ONE phone in your house that everyone shares is such a silly idea now. Or that when you went out to the store and someone wanted to contact you to remind you to pick up something, that just wasn't possible without calling the store and having you paged. You could, of course, call home and make sure you weren't forgetting anything by visiting the closest payphone bank (Is this place pager-friendly?). That life was only a decade or so ago. Now it seems like the stone age. Technology is advancing at an exciting, yet scary rate. The scary part is that our dependence on previously-impractical devices and services like Facebook, Twitter, cell phones, tablets, auto-parking cars, GPS, and countless other technical marvels, is growing just as fast as the technology is.
Speaking of useless things that I'm guilty of participating in, I found it interesting how many "Facebook Groups" are out there that really should be "Facebook Pages", most of which were probably created *before* Pages existed. Pages have a wealth of statistical information though and should really be migrated to for those of you who still have Groups that should be Pages. I managed to trim down the number of Groups I've joined over the years; turns out of the 20+, only 5 were geniune Groups, heh. The rest should've been "Liked" Pages. You can do the same by clicking "See All" on the left under your list of groups; it'll cut down on the crap in your newsfeed if you're seeing unwanted posts from random people you don't know.
Trekking to NJ to visit family this weekend and hopefully come home with a much needed king size bed. You'd be surprised how small a full size bed really feels when you have three cats...
Had a fantastic time at Andy & Bonnie's housewarming! They have such a beautiful place there in Lauraville. You'd have no idea they were so close to the inner city. This also means that festival season is right around the corner... now THAT I can't wait for.
My work laptop was frustrating me with black screen freezing for the past month or so. I finally couldn't take it anymore and had it shipped back to Apple last week. Since then, I've been using an older Macbook Pro and while it has made me really appreciate my new one, it's ironic that the keyboard on the older model feels so much nicer than the new one. It's softer, the indent in every key makes them feel softer. It's just a better experience; go figure.
I've also been trying to get a few placeholders setup for work with the plague that is social media. A few of Twitter's registration functions have been down for a day and some change. Facebook's picture upload applet refuses to work for me on any browser, under any platform. And the two of them working together? Ugh, what a pain. What did we do before all this technology? It's a little funny to think that the concept of having ONE phone in your house that everyone shares is such a silly idea now. Or that when you went out to the store and someone wanted to contact you to remind you to pick up something, that just wasn't possible without calling the store and having you paged. You could, of course, call home and make sure you weren't forgetting anything by visiting the closest payphone bank (Is this place pager-friendly?). That life was only a decade or so ago. Now it seems like the stone age. Technology is advancing at an exciting, yet scary rate. The scary part is that our dependence on previously-impractical devices and services like Facebook, Twitter, cell phones, tablets, auto-parking cars, GPS, and countless other technical marvels, is growing just as fast as the technology is.
Speaking of useless things that I'm guilty of participating in, I found it interesting how many "Facebook Groups" are out there that really should be "Facebook Pages", most of which were probably created *before* Pages existed. Pages have a wealth of statistical information though and should really be migrated to for those of you who still have Groups that should be Pages. I managed to trim down the number of Groups I've joined over the years; turns out of the 20+, only 5 were geniune Groups, heh. The rest should've been "Liked" Pages. You can do the same by clicking "See All" on the left under your list of groups; it'll cut down on the crap in your newsfeed if you're seeing unwanted posts from random people you don't know.
Trekking to NJ to visit family this weekend and hopefully come home with a much needed king size bed. You'd be surprised how small a full size bed really feels when you have three cats...