My T-Mobile HTC Wizard is now running on a pay as you go SIM card from Rogers Wireless, having been unlocked.
Cheers should abound.
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My Canon a530 is broken. It probably happened over the weekend of the wedding or some day in between then and the following Sunday, but it’s borked.
I noticed that there was only a slit of an image rather than the whole bug when I was snapping away at a leaf bug a couple weeks back, the lens cover was not opening. I put it out of my head and just lived with it until I had some quiet time during the day today to give it a good look, the mechanism that makes the cover open and close has clearly failed and I cannot suss how to fix it. Oh well, it’s been a good time, and several thousand images. I can upgrade to a 10 megapixel model after I find steady work, maybe a late bday present for me.
I may find steady work in the next little while or I may end up cleaning hotel rooms. Time will tell.
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This is Shelf unit one, I didn't take any pictures of number two. I moved these to Canada with me and they are still packed away!
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I must be getting “homesick” for working at Symantec and living in Eugene, because I had two fully-formed dreams about the States last night. Fully formed, in this case refers to the fact that I was able to fall back into the dreams even after interruptions.
Dream One: The Work Dream
I walk back into Symantec, which is suspiciously in the same field that where my elementary school is. In fact, “work” is now a series of desks, like those at an elementary school. I take my desk and advise everyone that I am back at Symantec until I find a new job, in order to continue pulling a paycheque. People then start asking questions about why I am back and what I’m doing, so I start snapping at them and laughing “For someone so old, shouldn’t you be worried about how much time you have left?” and stupid crap like that. I tell them that I don’t care about future employment with Symantec and the “boss” asks me to leave. The “boss” was a former co-worker, and not a former supervisor.
I get up and write my name on the board and leave, taking my gym shoes with me.
Dream Two: The Store
After finding a new home (a big house with neat rooms that hide when you press a button) I venture out to find a new job. I wander into the local Geek/Surplus/Comic store and proceed to convince the owner (Stu) that I need to buy the store from him for “all the money I have” which turns out to be 49 cents.
Stu sells me the store and I close up to take stock. I find an exciting number of expensive curios and books, as well as a collection of comics that don’t exist.
I kept falling back into this dream and exploring the store, which I never left.
Hmm…
We drove from Nebraska to Illinois today.
I wish I had more to say about the drive but I left my brain and stomach somewhere in Iowa! There were about a million hills between Lincoln and Ottawa, Illinois. This made the drive seem to go on forever, it wasn’t until I put on an audiobook that the drive became less of a chore. (World War Z)
We should hit ontario sometime tomorrow! Please continue to wish us luck!
Yep. Beyond a trucker that decided to match our snails pace along 80 east, we had a good drive. The sky kept on threatening to rain, but nothing came of it.
Rather than stress about the lighter we’ll go on without it, keep a short driving goal in mind.
Today we passed the middle of the way for the trip and are now closer to home than Eugene.
We have about 1000 miles to go, but we should be able to stop in illinois then make it to Canada by monday afternoon!
Wish us luck on the last two legs of our trip!
Left Ogden behind, the breakfast place had a roach issue so we got comped, I didn’t get to eat.
The drive was great, but the last bit and impersonal hotel left me rattled.
Saw so many hills that I am no longer impressed by Oregon’s hills; excepting the fact that the first 100 or so miles of the drive out of eugene were so smooth and awesome .
Let me also say that if I never have to drive downhill on another graded road I’ll be very very happy. I’ll do it again though, happiness isn’t everything.
On a travel note, we have come 1100+ miles, we have 1500 to go. we’ll be at the 1500 mile mark sometime tomorrow evening. Stamina holding, we’ll be in lincoln nebraska tomorrow night by 8 pm. Otherwise we’ll be there by 10 pm at the latest.
Very Expensive! 156 for the room, 20 bucks for breakfast. Damn! Now for gas!
NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: After I posted this a cockroach the size of a small cat crawled up the curtain behind Jen and we had to abandon the table (a table full of food too) and left the restraunt. The waitress had said under her breath that this was not a new problem.