Category: Rant & Rave

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.

Wednesday’s Presidential News Conference

I’m laying lazily in bed, watching the Today Show, thinking I should probably get up and get the day started when, instead of Regis and Kelly coming on at 9am, the President decided to have a news conference. I’m thinking it’s going to be a simple state of the war (we’re not winning…but not losing, either) kinda thing and a few questions that he’ll stumble through. NO…30 minutes later, he’s STILL TALKING and I don’t know if I listened really any of what he’s said. So, I tune in and realize that HE may not have even been listening to any of what he’s said. LOL. Then, the questions come. He insults some reporter and is still stumbling to make any sense of anything. *sigh* I go jump in the shower and when I’m done (granted, I’m not necessarily the longest shower taker), HE’S STILL TALKING!!! I had to change the channel. Finally, an hour later, I pop back over and see a commercial but I flip to another station to find that their news team is analyzing what all he’s said. I’m thinking that shouldn’t take too long.

Hence why I hate politics and it’s a wonder I vote. The modern American government is certainly not what our forefathers envisioned….

If he would have just commented on the Miss USA scandal, it might have been interesting! (NOT)

One teaser after another!

This is the intersection of Hwy 79(E. Palm Valley Blvd.) & FM-1490 (A.W. Grimes Blvd.). Why is this intersection significant enough that I’m choosing to blog about it today? It’s going to be my way to work and my way home each day and going this path should cut my travel time by 7-10 minutes each way. It’s supposed to be open by now and it looks complete from both sides but for some reason, it’s not. Maybe the middle isn’t yet. You can’t see it very well in this picture but there is a strip in between Hwy 79 (going across) and A.W. Grimes (being constructed) that’s just dirt. It looks like all they have to do is fill in that dirt with real road and we could use it easily enough. But not. We just keep getting teased. Ah, I’ll be so excited when they finally open it.

Speaking of opening, the new Steak & Shake in So. Austin is supposed to open on Wednesday. I’d go to the grand opening with my friend Kristina but I’m hosting the department Christmas Party that afternoon so that looks like a no go. It doesn’t look like they’ve even broken ground on the one that’s going in behind IKEA yet. Another teaser…. The story of my life.

A wee bit frustrated…but only a wee bit.

Yes, it’s true. I’ve let my stress get the best of me today. Don’t get me wrong, today was another great day. We had a fairly productive rehearsal outside (until the last 30 minutes or so when all brains started to waste away) this morning, band class went well and most kids that I listened to pass off their marching music did fine. We even got a wireless router all set up in my office so I can use my Dell laptop up at school and get on the internet if needed! During lunch, I met with the Band Booster Scholarship committee and helped them decide to give out a bunch of private lesson scholarships. This was meeting #2 on this topic and between the two meetings, they’ve given out their budgeted $5700.00 (and a smidge more, even) over three campuses! All that and I wasn’t even at school a full 12 hours today (only 11.5).

So, if today was such a good day, why am I at my witt’s end? I guess because today was an “easy” day for this week. I had only left school before dark once this week before today and what happened on the way home? I got a flat tire. I’ve worked more hours this than college algebra can add up and we’ve only finished week 3 of school. I have needy cats to come home to, my yard is frying up before my eyes and I haven’t had a moment to stop and pay any bills yet. My toilet decided to back up on me this morning and all I really want is a long, hot bubble bath.

Actually, no. What I really want is for someone to come and take care of me for a little bit. Not anything fancy…just a back rub and run the tub for me. Only, I don’t want just anyone to do it and there’s no one that isn’t “just anyone” right now. Honestly, I don’t know if I really want to go through all that hub-bub of courting and romance at this point in time of my life.

And that really counts for more than just this week or this marching season (as of today). I love living here alone; well, me and my cats. I love that I can come home after being noisy and rambunctious with kids all day and I can escape to no noise except the air conditioner running here. I don’t have to answer my phone (although I did answer it 3 times…it was Brian, the “boss” with computer questions) or make conversation if I don’t want to. I can watch whatever sappy TV show or movie I feel like and if I really feel like crying over the latest Hallmark greeting card commercial, I can!

Would I appreciate some company? Of course. Do I feel like I need it? I don’t think so, not right now, anyways. Is this healthy? I have NO idea. Am I a little overly-cautious from past relationships? Yeah, but only a little bit. Besides, there’s no one out there that’s showing interest and I don’t have time to know if I’m interested so it’s okay.

I’m rambling so I’m going to stop before people start thinking the wrong thing about what I’m talking about. I’m okay. I just needed to write. Thanks for reading…or not. 😉

…Don’t do it…PUT that plunger down. The toilet is already fixed.