RL Achievements and ToW

[AngharadTy]

Aww, I like my Bluetooth, it's useful in my car as my stereo has Bluetooth so I don't have to be a problematic driver if someone calls.

While driving is another matter entirely. I think that should be the main purpose of the bluetooth headsets. Not, for instance, talking to someone while in line paying for groceries. Grrrr.

The call quality from the iphone itself is fine, in my experience. But I hate getting called from someone using an iphone--it's scratchy and horrible. Like a really low-quality mp3, sometimes.

[Larkspurlane]

This morning was awesome! My dog had explosive diarrhea all over the front entrance.

And I thought the day wasn't starting so great when she started throwing up on my pillow. (Disaster was averted by me sticking her in the bathtub... way easier to clean.)

She was just spayed & the vet said this could happen as the GA messes up their digestion sometimes. My poor baby sweetie pie angelcake whoo's a goood girrrlll oh yes she is oh yes. *pets her*

It's pretty amazing & surreal to clean up dog shit at 5:30am.

Edit: she just had more and I think it's bloody, so I'm taking her back in.

[Joey]

Aww, I like my Bluetooth, it's useful in my car as my stereo has Bluetooth so I don't have to be a problematic driver if someone calls.

That sounds awesome! And good if you're moving to California, it's actually illegal to be on your cell phone while driving here. Which is a cool law in theory, but leads in to a woe:

Last week I was pulled over for being on my cell phone while driving. Except that I wasn't. My phone wasn't even near me, it was buried in my bag. I had to show the cop the call history that showed that my last call had been the previous day before he let me go without a ticket, but he was a real jerk about it. I hate being called a liar.

[Fjorab_Teke]

Ugh, yeah. Most cops out there are honestly out there to help people and only stop bad drivers if they're a hazard - and then often let them off with a warning to cut it out if it's speeding or an illegal turn.

But there are the real jerks out there who are so deperate for power trips or "ticket commissions" that they'll readily insist that someone who is sweeping their hair back is instead swerving all over the place on a cellphone.

I've been pulled over by two of the former and one of the latter. So far, no actual tickets, as they've all been honest mistakes.

[AngharadTy]

What I hate is that cops don't "have" to obey driving laws. They go through red lights, past stop signs, talk on their phones.... It's frustrating as hell. They've even set off the photo-enforced lights a few times, so it must just be "okay" in the system here. Why wait for a green light when you're a cop!

[Silver Link]

Graduated from college today. It's an achievement because I'm finally done and don't have to deal with living "on campus" (in an apartment building in the next town over but still considered a part of campus) and the stress and tension that comes with school work, but a woe in that I have to face the real world, will barely ever talk to/see my college friends again, and will have to wait out a year before my boyfriend graduates as well (which equals a very lonely girlfriend)

[Fjorab_Teke]

Sprint:
PLUSES - less hassle than switching, no huge early termination fee
MINUSES - least coverage of the three, still have price of replacing phone

Verizon:
PLUS - best coverage
MINUSES - most expensive, hassle of switching, big ETF

AT&T:
PLUSES - cheapest rates, better coverage than Sprint, iPhone, no worries bout communicating with certain family and friends
MINUSES - hassle, iTunes, big ETF

I was just told the military people there generally use Sprint so the calls wouldn't count against our quota. With keeping our number, calls "home" would still be considered local. The spotty coverage is somewhat negated by a decent roaming option already included in our plan. I also found out that I was eligible for an upgrade credit on a new phone. And despite it simply being his job, my Sprint sales rep is really kewl. He and I joked about a BlackBerry being good enough (and fun enough) for the President to insist on trying to keep. So he showed me a "BarackBerry" Curve.

Sprint wins the race this time. I have just joined the BlackBerry horde and am sticking with Sprint until further notice. Now to get used to this new phone - and figure out how to negate its one or two shortcomings (each time I get a phone, I find something I DO like about it that the next one, even if significantly better, lacks). I squeed over getting to use my 16gig MicroSD chip with it, so NO hassle about extra space or transferring my Instinct's music and pics and videos. And they look even better than they did on the Instinct's screen.

[Seerow]

Just got my grades for the semester, and they were the best they've been in a while Three A's and two B's. Go me!!

[Fjorab_Teke]

Yay Seerow! Good job!

[Jessi]

Yay Silly Achievement! Next week Lindsey and I are taking a mini trip to Chicago, and on Friday Seerow is going to come visit us! YAY SO EXCITED

[Seerow]

So so so excited I get to see Jessi and Lindsey!! I'll need to find my camera so I can take lots of pictures.

[Twofold Black]

I am posting from work, having just walked out of a meeting with my boss in which I finally got the raise I'd been waiting on for a couple of months. Woo! Percentagewise it's a fairly substantial raise, but I don't make a hell of a lot of money, so I'm not about to start sleeping on a pile of cash. However, I don't live very expensively. After taxes, it's, like, an extra fancy dinner and a recently-released video game, or theatre tickets for myself and a couple of friends, or a piece of art, or basically the cost of my entire wardrobe, per month. In practice it will probably go into my savings, but the principle is sound!

Just ... don't tell my boss I posted this from work. I don't want him taking it away.

[Huggles]

Woe: I cut my right index finger while changing the air filters in our house. It's the finger I use for the computer and stuff!

[Chandi]

Holy crap. Pinch me, this can't be real.

After being devastated about being rejected from Teach for America, I just got accepted to a volunteer program called WorldTeach, based out of Harvard. I will be teaching English in CHILE from July to December. CHILE!!! Just... wow.

[Fjorab_Teke]

How exciting, Chandi!

Mini-achievement: those two shortcomings on the BlackBerry? One had a ready-made solution that was hidden in another group of settings, and another was solved with a cheap application. Win!

Next week: hysterectomy. Eek!