Author: Benford

4 Day Weekend!!

School has been cancelled for Tuesday. Considering they closed the Wiggles and Giggles Daycare Child Development Center hours ago, it was only due that they’d close RRISD! 😉 I’m kinda bummed ’cause we’ve gotta make it up later but I get an extra day at home tomorrow. I’m going to take the day and clean out my office and make something with a chicken. Kelly, I’ll make sure and post the recipe once I figure out what I’m gonna make, okay?

Brrrr….

It’s cold out! I tried to go to the store to get some milk and a few other things and I couldn’t get my door open. On the passengers side, the door won’t open but on the drivers side, the handle won’t even lift. The ice is over an inch thick in my yard but my silly cat Pfema doesn’t realize how cold it is out because he keeps trying to go outside. He stood around in the grass in the backyard for a minute or two and when I brought him back in, he took several minutes to warm up his paws and nose.

So, I’m trapped in my house through tonight. I have a feeling at least the first half of school will be cancelled tomorrow. I might just go ahead and call all the kids and cancel Jazz Ensemble rehearsal tomorrow morning. I don’t want to take any chances of kids trying to get there that early (by 7am) and getting hurt. Or me for that matter! I do hope they have some school tomorrow though because I hate loosing those bad weather days at the end of the year. They are so necessary at the end of the year….

Well, I hope everyone is safe and somewhere they can keep warm.

———————UPDATE———————
They say tomorrow’s not going to get any warmer. They just mentioned that it’s supposed to be bad down through the Rio Grande Valley! Many school districts have announced closures and delays for tomorrow but not Round Rock. I haven’t called my Jazz Ensemble kids yet but unless I hear otherwise from Brian, I’m going to make the call. We just meet too early to think that any of this ice will have melted by then. The temperature has gone up a few degrees so I think I’m going to run to the store and get some soup, as well as some milk and other things I could really use. Thanks for the suggestion for soup, Piojo.

Sync no workie. :(

This summer, I bought a Motorola Razr to replace the Motorola V551 I had for oh, 9 months to a year. I’d gotten used to the applications and features the Motorola phones, especially the Sync feature these Moto phones have. I love my Yahoo! Calendar because I can fully access and update it anywhere I’m with a computer on the internet. I’ve been a loyal user of Yahoo! Mail & features for many years and when I discovered I could sync my phone with my calendar without having to deal with cables or having a Blackberry style phone (which don’t sync with Yahoo! Calendar), I was quite joyous. I didn’t have to use Outlook, of which I’m not a fan, and I could be anywhere, make an appointment, put it in the phone, hit two buttons and it was synced to my Yahoo! Calendar.

Recently, Yahoo! announced the new version of Yahoo! Go and Yahoo! Mobile in which you have to download software onto your phone to make Yahoo! features work. Since that announcement, I was able to upload appointments from my phone to my calendar but not vice versa. As of yesterday, the sync feature won’t even connect to Yahoo! at all. 😦 And I can’t use the new software offered by Yahoo! because my phone isn’t the right version of the Razr. And of course, in their infinite technology company wisdom, there’s no answer as to what to do if you’re not able to sync anymore because of this situation. I’m sure they’re in co-hoots with phone companies to get people to buy newer phones but since I’m waiting and saving for the new iPhone, it’s not something I can really consider. As much as I enjoy using Yahoo! products and I probably won’t stop anytime soon, not being able to really get an answer that can help me from their Help wesite really pisses me off. 😡

On another note, I hear that Cingular is changing their name back to AT&T. They were apparently hinting at it with the Apple keynote at MacWorld Conference. Meh, whatever. As long as they don’t have service as crappy as I got with Sprint, keep rollover minutes and still offer the iPhone when it becomes available, I don’t care what they call themselves.

Update

I had my orthopedic appointment on Wednesday and we took some new x-rays and determined (still) that it’s not bone injuries. He did find that I have pain in my hampstring and where it attaches to the bone below my knee and he said that was strange because most of my pain occurs in my patella. He prescribed physical therapy to strengthen some specific muscles around the areas that are causing pain and I’ll go back in a month to see if he needs to do an MRI or not. Doesn’t look like a quick fix but it may not require surgery, which will be fantastic! Unfortunately, my insurance deductable is $500 (which isn’t horrible) but with my single income and house payments, I’ll have to really watch the budget as I pay for my physical therapy. I guess I might have to wait a few versions on that iPhone, too. If you’d like to donate to the Cathy Benford Medical fund…..