Month: June 2004

Bluetooth Headset

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I went ahead and ordered a bluetooth headset yesterday. I should get it today before I leave the office. I went with the Sony Ericsson HBH-65. It was either that or the Motorola one or another no name brand. None of them had perfect scores on the reviews I read. The SE I got actually has distance issues with the bluetooth antenna. I don’t plan on being that far away from the phone. My biggest requirements were good voice quality, and a comfy fit. This headset should do that.

I liked my old Motorola one but it broke last year after a night of drinking. I think I threw my bag down on the floor somewhere and it cracked the headset. oh well. The prices have gone on them though. This one was only $103, plus shipping. The motorola one I got back in December 2002 was almost $200. the old HBH-10 I got when bluetooth headsets came out was over $200. Lets hope this one works as advertised…

Last Day Before The Forth

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Today is my last day in the office before the 4th weekend. I am in kingston tomorrow and friday for some network work. I have to get allot done today since jayson is still not back. He should have left New Orleans today for his trip back.

Once I return, full time packing for me!

Fire Dept Activity

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Not sure what was going on, but there was a fire trick and crew at my rail road station this morning. It was weird. Like 6 guys walking on the other platform and then they were huddled near something. Not sure what. Their was no obvious fire. Nothing suspicious. as my train left the station it looked like they were looking up the embankment or tree near the station. Maybe something got caught in the tree. It was interesting enough to keep the morning exciting!

This is what I get for taking the early train.

UPDATE: As I got to penn station I heard an announcement that all trains on my line were delayed now because of fire department activity. Must have been something going on after all.

iMac Will Stay, For Now

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I have decided to keep the iMac for now. I decided that I do like it, and I do use it. Any other solution won’t be that great right now. So instead of investing more money in something else, I will keep what I have.

I do need another firewire hard drive though. My Lacie 200 Gig drive is running low on space. My other 160 gig drive in my PC only has 8 gigs free. I think I can get another 200 gig firewire drive for around $200. I will wait till after I move to pick it up. I am trying to save this month. So far I am doing ok, but there is several things I need to buy that I am waiting to spend money on.

Late Night Postponed

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The late night I had scheduled tonight has been delayed. I am not sorry about it. I hate staying up till 1am only to start working. Our DB staff needed more time to ensure that our swap of servers we were planning went off without any problems.

With this late night on hold, I can possibly move up my other late night I had scheduled for Thursday/Friday. I am checking with Kai to make sure he can do the work early. We need to upgrade a switch in Kingston and also we want to do some rewiring. that requires us to work at night.

Also by doing the work tomorrow night, I can be in the office friday. Gus is going on vacation Friday so he would rather me be around. Schedule juggling is abound today…

Bluetooth Headsets

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I was cleaning out my closet and came across my original Ericsson Bluetooth headset. it was the first one to market that I can remember. It never worked right. I tried to use it again with my new T610 thinking maybe it was the phone that sucked. I was wrong. it was the headset. I am tossing it. It is not even worth putting up on Ebay.

I now want another bluetooth headset. I remember how cool it was to use one. Dam Treo 600 with no bluetooth makes that difficult to do. I would need to use my T610 with the headset. If PalmOne doesn’t get their head out of their ass’s soon, I may have to give up that device. No matter how cool the Treo is. It takes them forever to come out with newer versions of it, and then they stagger its release with different carriers by months. get with the program, and fix your issues and make more of them.

It is time I shopped for a bluetooth headset. I am off to the internet for research.

Sean And Kelly’s Visit

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It sucked, they are a bunch of pain in the ass’s. No really, I am just kidding. I always wanted to play a prank on the blog. I know sean reads this, so hey Sean. I am kidding! Feel the love:)

I actually had a great time. I need to get together with them more often. I want to go out by them sometime after I move. I think it is time to cash in some Delta Sky Miles.

They had a cool rental car with GPS, that worked. I had a blast. I want to write more, but sleep awaits…

Allot To Write About

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I have allot to write about, but for some reason don’t feel that up to writing today. So here will be a quick recap of the weekend.

I continued to throw stuff out of my apartment in anticipation of my move next month.

I am also getting ready to ebay a bunch of tech stuff I have. I realized that allot of my crap is not worth that much anymore used. So it is easier to just keep it and or give it away.

Had dinner with Carrie, and my grandmother tonight. Morgan also! My grandmother was in to visit my cousin who is sick. She took us to dinner. it was actually pleasant. That is not always the case with my grandmother.

Got a hair cut on Saturday. My regular barber wasn’t there. Not sure what his deal was. His father did my hair. Didn’t do a good job. it is ok, but he didn’t listen to me when I gave him instructions. That may be the last time I go to that place since I am moving. I need to find a new place in the city for next time.

We had an issue with one of our Call Manager Servers Saturday that caused it to fail. The second machine in the cluster took over fine, but we had about 15 seconds of down time while that happened. Kai is working on getting a patch for it. I spent allot of Saturday working on the phone system because of that, and other issues.

The plus side is I did some more work on our IVR. I even setup our own for Support, to prove the concept. An IVR for support is overkill but we had extra 800#’s and it shows that they system can work.

This blog entry was written while listening to Machine Head by Bush

Sean And Kelly

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My friend Sean and his wife Kelly are visiting today. They flew into DC a few days ago and are driving up to NYC today. They will hang out tonight and stay over by me before they continue their drive up to his parents place near albany tomorrow.

I haven’t seen them in almost a year and a half. It doesn’t feel that long, but I think it has been. Sean is one of those friends that I am sad lives very far away. I have other friends that I wish lived that far away. Go figure.

We IM a few times a month and keep in touch, but it is hard when people are so far away. It will be good to see them.

We are planning on hitting Angelo and Maxis by my office for dinner. I will need to fast today to eat their later.

I got the air mattress from my parents last night so they have a place to sleep. I love that air mattress. I slept on it for almost 6 weeks when I moved to Baton Rouge. it is comfy. Just plug it in and hit the button and it inflates. Ah the joys of technology.

New Cable

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My order is in for Cable TV & Cable Modem in my new apartment. I am just waiting to see if I got my install date and time.

Next up is calling movers. Carrie will email me the name and number of her movers. I sent her an email yesterday, but she was off from work. She is on a big deadline for her project this week. I can hear how tired she is when I talk to her. I think she has the first milestone release of her software this weekend or something. I don’t envy her deadlines.

My landlady wants to know if I can vacate my apartment a bit early so another prospective tenant can paint and do stuff before August 1st. I said sure, since she has been cool and I will be gone completely (i hope) before the 20th. I will know exactly when once I get the movers lined up.