Wednesday: Phoning It In
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alexandraerinNews For Today:
After increasing disenchantment with the Palm Pre, I'm taking advantage of the chance to get a free Android phone from my carrier. It's not a huge upgrade in terms of physical specs, but the Pre's kind of flimsy and has never had very good software support. I clung to it out of fangirl loyalty based on how much I'd liked my Treos, ignoring the fact that it had no real office suite program and thus was ill-equipped for doing the one thing that really justifies me having a smartphone. It was also pretty glitchy. There's a lot of business-world back story on the software support thing, what with Palm going through troubles and being acquired by HP, and DataViz (makers of the office software for older Palm platforms, developers of the vaporware version initially touted for the Pre's Palm OS) being acquired by RIM last fall, but ultimately it just doesn't do what I need it to do. When I write stories on it, I've been doing them in emails to myself, which works but it also contributes to choppy writing as I have to integrate drafts together that were written in different places without reference to each other.
Android phone? Powered by Google. Can run GDocs, to let me open and edit my word processor files from Google Documents, which is where I do all of my writing. It seems like a winner to me.
Also, my new phone will be purple, and thus harder for me to misplace. It also has better functionality for "lost phone" apps.
Personal Assessment
Knees are better than they were earlier this week. I have some muscular pain in my legs that I believe comes from the way I've been compensating for them.
Sleep is still happening like some sort of soporific clockwork. You all have no idea how weird or how awesome that is to me. I expect summer will bring a return to sleepless nights, as I have to forgo my Fortress of Blankitude, but for now? It's awesome.
Dreams From Last Night
None distinct.
Random Link
My Secret, by Gretchen Rautman. A self-published children's book for children who are coping with chronic pain. There's a free PDF download available, but due to the images it's on the large size.
Plans For Today
In terms of formal tasks, I'm going to stick to "write a chapter" for now. Last week, Wednesday was when the writing ahead thing fell apart. I'll add more tasks more regularly once I've got a buffer established. I'll also be continuing some research on Wordpress's tagging capabilities that I've been doing.
After increasing disenchantment with the Palm Pre, I'm taking advantage of the chance to get a free Android phone from my carrier. It's not a huge upgrade in terms of physical specs, but the Pre's kind of flimsy and has never had very good software support. I clung to it out of fangirl loyalty based on how much I'd liked my Treos, ignoring the fact that it had no real office suite program and thus was ill-equipped for doing the one thing that really justifies me having a smartphone. It was also pretty glitchy. There's a lot of business-world back story on the software support thing, what with Palm going through troubles and being acquired by HP, and DataViz (makers of the office software for older Palm platforms, developers of the vaporware version initially touted for the Pre's Palm OS) being acquired by RIM last fall, but ultimately it just doesn't do what I need it to do. When I write stories on it, I've been doing them in emails to myself, which works but it also contributes to choppy writing as I have to integrate drafts together that were written in different places without reference to each other.
Android phone? Powered by Google. Can run GDocs, to let me open and edit my word processor files from Google Documents, which is where I do all of my writing. It seems like a winner to me.
Also, my new phone will be purple, and thus harder for me to misplace. It also has better functionality for "lost phone" apps.
Personal Assessment
Knees are better than they were earlier this week. I have some muscular pain in my legs that I believe comes from the way I've been compensating for them.
Sleep is still happening like some sort of soporific clockwork. You all have no idea how weird or how awesome that is to me. I expect summer will bring a return to sleepless nights, as I have to forgo my Fortress of Blankitude, but for now? It's awesome.
Dreams From Last Night
None distinct.
Random Link
My Secret, by Gretchen Rautman. A self-published children's book for children who are coping with chronic pain. There's a free PDF download available, but due to the images it's on the large size.
Plans For Today
In terms of formal tasks, I'm going to stick to "write a chapter" for now. Last week, Wednesday was when the writing ahead thing fell apart. I'll add more tasks more regularly once I've got a buffer established. I'll also be continuing some research on Wordpress's tagging capabilities that I've been doing.
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