1-800-GOOG-411I don't know about you guys, but my cell phone is also my primary phone... it's increasingly becoming this way for a lot of people, these days. In awhile, landlines may be almost quaint. My only problem is, Cricket's 411 service is the absolute worst I've ever used. 95% of the time, the number I get is wrong, or they don't even have ( Read more... )

I've begun reading Reader's Digest's Illustrated History of World War 2. I'll be reading it, in little pieces, probably over the next few months. I've been wanting to brush up on some more of my history, and this was a good place to go next. Plus, I tend to trust RD's chosen author(s) over some of the more revisionist intellectuals out there, who ( Read more... )

I found this cool blogging service on Cricket Clicks, called Rabble. It's not revolutionary, but it's interesting. The feature set could use some work, and it's a bit odd in how you view other persons' blogs, but I see promise in the concept. There is even supposedly a way to link your Rabble and LiveJournal accounts, so that they both update each ( Read more... )

I have lately become enamored by the music of Hildegard von Bingen. A renaissance woman, in the sense of genius, talent and being a person out of her time, a millenium ago. She and her works blossomed, in the times just following the Dark Ages. She was a woman of influence and renown, in an age and culture where women were always second to men. She ( Read more... )

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     Worked that 18-hour shift, chatted it up with some of the night staff, and crashed in an empty room because I was too tired to drive home safely. I'd sorta expected them to kick the mattress before the morning hubbub began, but I woke up at 7:30 to emerge with pillow-hair, emerging to odd looks from some of the day staff. Oh well ( Read more... )