Month: February 2005

I Feel Old

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I feel a bit older today than I normally do. One of my best friends from college just had a baby. I am not sure what makes me feel older the fact that friends my age are now having kids or that I will be 31 next month? My congrats to Sean and Kelly. Also a hello to little Scott C. According to recent readings he will not have any problems being the only Scott in his classes when he grows up.

Sean and Kelly are lucky. FAO does not have in stock the big dog stuffed animal I was going to get. Dam FAO. Now I have to wait till my sister has another kid to piss someone off with the dam big dog, but it won’t be so fun to give it to her. She is starting to think she wants the really big one for the next kid:(

Where In The World Is Scott?

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Many of you may have thought I died. If you saw me on Thursday that is probably what you thought was going on! I am not dead. I felt like I was going to die, but it was just the flue. I am feeling better now. I am still really tired, but I am awake and not lying in bed feeling like I was run over by a truck (i figured that getting run over by a truck had to feel as bad or worse than how I was feeling yesterday. I may be wrong on that, sorry).

I have no idea what happened. I was feeling fine on Thursday morning and then within 5 minutes I went from feeling fine to feeling like I was going to die. I guess my cold turned into the flu. Who knows. I just don’t know how I made it home. Thanks to Jayson, Cari, & Danny for making sure I made it home alive. Thanks to the unnamed cabbie who had to put up with my puking in the back of his cab. To my defense we had a garbage bag and made no mess. I am a well prepared sick person.

Also I would like to thank Gretchen for the chicken sandwich. Fast food never tasted so good. Also a very special thanks to Pierre for keeping me company. Sorry that I couldn’t play with you more buddy, but I felt like crap. Thanks for not crapping though:) Oh, Pierre is a dog if anyone was just a bit confused.

I slept today during the day so now it is late and I am not tired. I am going to take some more Tylenol PM and hopefully sleep the entire night. I have watched a ton of TV today, and I felt like getting a bit of writing in before I collapse to sleep. I don’t understand how I can be so tired and not sleepy.

I will take the day off to take it easy. My dad keeps telling me not to rush back into my routine or else I will get sick again. That happened last year and I don’t want it to happen again. More tomorrow…

Birthday Gifts

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My niece’s birthday is next week. I have no idea what to get her. It’s not that she is a girl. It is that she is 2. What do you get a 2 year old? I don’t have any ideas. My sister is no help. She keeps coming up with things that she needs approval on that will be “special”. That was great for a first birthday since Morgan didn’t remember opening gifts. This year is different. I need for her to have something to open on her birthday. My brother in law doesn’t think she needs anything. So he was no help either. So far I will get barbie’s first roller blades (inline skates, excuse me roller blade inc.). My sister also might want me to get a wooden cash register toy. I still have time so hopefully this will get sorted out.

Also this month I need to get a gift for my cousin Merric. he is turning 11 or something. Man I am getting old. I cannot remember how old he will be. Dam family that I care about and have to get gifts for:)

In a Haze

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I have been in a cold medicine induced haze all day today. Kai, Danny, & Jayson were having lots of fun regarding my state of awareness. It is kind of weird when you don’t really feel your feet. I knew I was in for a day when I couldn’t read the screen of my PDA on the train. I wanted to leave early but I ended up staying a few minutes late. Time just flies by.

I am going to try and get to bed early. I hope that happens.

Dam Broken Tech

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My Lexar Jump drive secure broke the other day. it is physically in perfect condition. I just cannot copy anything to it. It may have been my fault, but if it was they didn’t design these things very well. While backing everything up off of the drive I moved the Lexar secure software off the drive. I then tried to format the secure and public partitions on the drive. Windows for some reason didn’t finish the format. I kept getting an error. I tried it on my mac and it seemed to work. that was until I tried to copy the secure software back onto the drive. I then get a cannot write error.

As of now, the drive is totally useless to me. At this point I would settle for just using it as a USB key chain and forget the secure part of it. But I cannot even get that working.

My silent protest to this damaged device is to pull it from my list of favorite gear. Take that Lexar!

Allot Of Phones

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While I was waiting to receive my new Treo 650 I decided to put down on paper exactly how many cell phone models that I actually have. Well honestly I have had a list in notepad for a while now. And I am finally putting it up on the site because I feel like writing and I don’t have anything else that will be quick!

Before you look at the list, realize this is about 13 years of phones (granted most of them in the last 6), and some of them I had for a few days (in some cases a day) and then returned them because they were crap in my opinion. I noted the ones that I didn’t keep for very long in red. I am in a list kick. I have wanted to write out all my phones, organizers, and computers for a while. Here is my list mobile phones.

Crazy People On The Street

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You may have seen us. We are the ones talking to (what appears to be) no one. On the surface we don’t look crazy. But you begin to wonder when you see us talking to thin air. The simple fact is we are not crazy. you are just behind the times. Unless we need to be medicated for some sort of psychological disorder we are probably talking on a bluetooth headset. I thought it was funny when I found this article.

With my new Treo 650 I once again join the ranks of the crazy bluetooth headset talking crowd. Another guy in our office uses his all day. no one knows if he is talking to us or someone on the phone.

Work on A Saturday?

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I feel like I am getting sick. I am on cold meds. The drinking last night probably wasn’t one of my brightest ideas. I also went to the office today to help out with some stuff. I am back now and I am really tired. The non-drowsy cold stuff I am on right now sure makes me tired.

The Treo On The Road

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I had mixed results with the Treo 650 on the road over the 2 day period I traveled this week. One problem I had was not related to the Treo but with T-Mobile. For some reason I could not receive calls for almost 16 hours. Not sure why. Fiddling with the phone, an extra phone and a different #’s sim card got my number to start working again. not sure what I did. Probably several phone reboots and swapping sim’s did the trick.

Other issues I had was with bluetooth and connecting with my laptop. PDANet didn’t even work with bluetooth. I kept having conflicts with the HotSync software. Even after I turned the hotsync off. Not sure what is wrong, but I think it is related to the 3com bluetooth card more than it is related to the Treo. I just can’t get it to work right consistently.

The screen rocks. I cannot mention that enough. The battery life was good also. I only charged it for like an hour in 2 days and I still have almost 50% charge. That was with bluetooth on most of the daytime hours.

My Sony Ericsson Headset works great with the Treo. That bluetooth accessory works as advertised (for now). I used it allot. it is great to have wireless hands free.

I need to get beyond contacts back on the Treo. I don’t like the trial of agendus. I just cannot get used to its UI. it is supposed to be good, but it is too different.

Jayson is enjoying my old 600. he got a bunch of apps on it already. We were beaming contacts while waiting for the train Wednesday. Yes we are geeks.

I am also almost out of memory in the phone. That dam memory issue is really affecting me. Avantgo, snapper mail, agendus, and vindigo are taking up almost all of my memory. I am trying to free up space any way I can.

New Switch

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We just upgraded our network in my companies call center office. We put in a new Cisco blade switch. it will act as our primary core. We did some reconfiguration on the old core’s and will use them as backup. this is phase 1 of our expansion plans.

When I say “we” did the work. I mean we hired a contractor, and told them what to do. We then looked over the configs and did testing. It is nice to leave the heavy lifting to others.

The upgrade actually went well. I am always hesitant to say that because I am fearful that something out of the blue will go wrong. But actually it went as good as to be expected. no major problems. I was back to the hotel and in bed by 3AM. I would have been in bed sooner but I had some cell phone problems I had to play with to fix.

Friday it is back to my normal office. I miss my chair:(