Day: 16 June 2003

Bluetooth dial-up works, finally!!!

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I actually got my Thinkpad to dial a GPRS connection through my Sony Ericsson T-68i using a bluetooth connection. I found an updated driver package for my Xircom card. It actually works with XP now. AT&T’s connection software still didn’t work. That ticked me off, but I found instructions on their web site to do it with XP’s built in dial up networking. It worked like a champ. Now I have to see if it works out and about. I have problems allot of the time when I try to use it on my powerbook. It is all due to spotty data service.

I am just happy I figured it out without having to buy new hardware. Now I wait until Verizon comes out with a Bluetooth enabled phone and I am all set. Of course having verizon’s data plan come down in price would be nice also. Until then I live with AT&T’s sub par GPRS system.

I like it when technology works the way it is advertised. Lets ignore that it took like 4 software revisions and like 6 1/2 months (with this provider) to get it working on Windows.

The eye doctor

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Tomorrow I am going into work late because I have an eye doctor appointment. It is my regular appointment I have every 2 years. Thankfully I don’t have to go every year like I did when I was younger. I am hoping that this year my doctor will say the La-sec (laser eye surgery) will actually help me. Up till now he said the surgery will not be as good as wearing glasses. if he says “i can get you to the prescription you have or better with surgery.” I am getting it. No question. If he says no to the surgery I am thinking of doing contacts again. I stopped because my eyes are too dry by nature, and I spend tons of time at a computer screen. FYI looking at a computer screen allot makes you blink less, thus dry eyes get even dryer. The other down side to contacts when I last had them was they cost like $500 a pair for me since I had special weighed lenses. Yes my eyes are really screwed up. Technology is improving so much I hope things have changed in that arena in the past 7 years.

I actually like going to the eye doctor because I always hope he has good news for me, like hey you don’t need glasses any more. It never actually happens, but I can dream. Hearing the news about the la-sec’s is good enough for me. On the down side I don’t react well to the eye dilation drops that he gives me. it always takes all day to return to normal and I can’t do much when my eyes are screwed up like that. Work tomorrow will be interesting!

Fathers day

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Went with my family to my brother-in-laws family today. Well sort of family. It was a family friends house that they have been friends with forever. They are like family. If you know me, it is like the Stein’s for my family. They had an an awesome house with a nice in-ground pool on like 4 acres in Stamford CT. Nice place, but too far from the city for me. I had a good time. Mike pissed my sister off by dunking the baby in the pool. In my opinion the only thing wrong he did, was dunking her right in front of my sister and then not giving morgan to her when she started crying. Some things you don’t do in front of mom.

Not sure if we will do that trip again next year. The traffic sucked and my dad has a bad back. Sitting in the car is bad for him, or that is the excuse he uses. I guess this BBQ is an annual think, so we will see if we go next year.

I am spending most of my evening changing address’s on everything I can think of in planning my upcoming move. I got most of the magazines, the post office, the credit cards, and one cell phone company done. I still need to change my drivers license and some more stuff. Address changing is an art form if you have stuff auto billed to your credit card. If you change your credit card address you need to immediately go and change the auto billed account or else they will stop sending your or providing you whatever service you are paying for. I found that out when Amex changed my address on all my cards when I just wanted a corporate card changed. My Metro card was turned off. If you don’t live in NYC, a metro card is the credit card that you use to get onto the Subway. Mine also is linked to my Long Island Rail Road account, so having that get turned off was a bad thing.