While looking for land for sale Branson the other day, the ups man knocked on the door to deliver my Sidekick slide. It was a pretty sweet phone. I say WAS cause its already gone! While i really liked the phone in general, by the 2nd day I was already experiencing some problems with it. Tmobile sent me out a new one, but after reading on the SK forums and hearing all the problems other were having with the phone I decided to not even waste my time with it. As far as design goes tho it was great. The only thing that was a problem was how slow it moved online. The battery could have been better too, but it wasnt horrible.
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Once again Tmobile has fed the addiction and is letting Jen and I upgrade again. She went with a Blackberry Curve, which I have yet to hear a bad comment on so I dont see any reason she wont like it. I went with a Sidekick Slide, which is a pretty big jump from the type of phones i usually get. Jen has owned one before, and I only checked it out briefly. I did notice a few things tho. The screen can light a room, it gets loud as hell, and it looks killer. Hopefully they will be here by Wednesday along with that gold anklet that I ordered for my….uhh…dog. Right, the dog.
I have been drinking a lot of tea lately, trying to give up coffee. There are just so many damn teas to try out. So far anything with fruit or mint in it is absolutely disgusting. The only exception to that has been green tea with mango. Not bad. The only ones other than that which I actually liked were the vanilla caramel black tea, and chamomile. Still plenty to check out tho. I just dont ever see myself liking any of them like i do coffee. mmmm coffee.
Laura’s first birthday is only a few days away, unfortunately I have used up all my sick and vacation hours, but Its not the end of the world and theres no way im working on the princesses birthday. I’m going to try my best to actually save up my vacation hours this year, hopefully Jen and I can come across some vacation deals and actually take a real vacation for once.
I have had a pain in my stomach the last few days, and today it finally got to the point that I felt i needed to see a doctor. We went ahead and went to the emergency room. They did some xrays and had me drink a lot of nasty stuff. They were going to do and upper GI but because I ate that damn bagel this morning they couldnt. I had been taking ampicillin and prilosec thinking that it was an ulcer, but they said the ampicillin was probly doing more harm than good. They also put me on some new pill that sounds similar to prilosec, as well as some nasty chalk stuff i have to drink once a day. They said if it isnt better in a week I will go back for the upper GI test. I am just not glad it isnt a huge ulcer or stomach cancer. It took a good 4 hours, and there was a brat screaming in the room behind us. It was torture. I just feel worn out now, but I still have to find some cheap pens. If only I could find a link to some.
Holy fibromyalgia have I been tired lately. I dunno if it is the pill/vitamins I have been taking or what. I just feel exhausted by the end of the day. It is usually nothing for me to stay up till midnight or longer, but not lately. Jen said her vitamins were making her tired, so maybe that is the case for me as well. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense that a vitamin would make your tired, especially since the ones i have are for “all day energy”. I guess i could stop taking them and see if i notice a difference.
I have always wanted to incorporate subtitles or captioning in my avi movies for our divx player, but never could get them to read. When a friend of mine started trying to do the same thing and was also unsuccessful I decided I would give it another shot. I found and application called DivXMux. It can take an .avi file, and a subtitle .srt file and combine them into one .divx file. It doesn’t even have to reencode the whole move like some of the other apps do, so it is fast as hell, and could’nt be simpler. I had issues getting audio to work, but soon found you have to use the .avi file once again for your audio track. I also thought that since the subtitles werent showing when viewed on my pc, that they wouldnt on my divx player as well, but found that I just needed to hit the subtitle button on my divx. Really nice application if you want to watch movies in another language, or have parts with them.
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With all the new changes going on at work, there are a lot of pissed off employees. They are basically doubling our work, but have yet to hire any extra help. I was already stressed at the fact that for the most part of the day I feel as tho I am spread too thin among all the things I have to get done. The only good thing I see coming out of it is with them moving some stuff around they have also freed up 2-3 people to work on other tasks. I just wonder how big a help that will actually be. I am so sick of inspecting cars and searching for logo pens. There is never a pen in our building so you spend a ridiculous amount of time searching for something to right with before you can even start.
As I get the Rizr ready to ship off to it’s new owner, I thought I could use this chance to pry out another post from it, but seriously, I feel it is worthy of a quick review. The Motorola Rizr Z3 is without a doubt the best non smartphone I have owned. After having to give the first one back from a bad deal at work, I tried a lot of others while the price slowly came down. I managed to grab it for $130 on ebay, and it is very much worth the price. Comes equipped with a 2mp camera, which is higher than most phones out now. The screen is a little smaller than most, but it is so clear and bright you don’t really notice it. It is loud as hell so I rarely missed any calls or messages on it. It has a micro sd slot for tunes, games, and pics which rocks. Call quality was awesome and the keypad is one of the best 10key setups I have tried so far. The battery life is insane. I charge my phones for a couple of hours before bed every day, and I never saw this one go below 2 bars.
As many good points as there are about the phone, there have to be some bad ones tho too right. Otherwise I wouldn’t have sold it…..putting aside that I am a cell junkie. As far as negative things about the phone, for me, all came down to the texting. While the keypad is super easy to feel the keys you need, and the buttons are very responsive, whoever decided to put the tiny backspace key right next to the end key should be shot. It wasn’t a huge deal for me and my nimble fingers, but I can see someone having some serious issues with that. Not so much a problem if you arent a big texter, and if thats the case you wont have much of a problem with my main gripe. The moto texting has come a good ways since the Razr V3, and does a lot better at predicting. Sometimes it even predicts my whole sentence, but when it doesnt it doesn’t even come close. It will pick some off the wall make believe word over something that is pretty common. Worse is when it predicts the entire word minus the final letter and you scroll through the options of the final letter only to see that the one friking letter you need isnt even an option! WTF! Nerve wrecking. But my number one main hate about this phone, and all other motos for that matter are when the prediction fails, and you dont notice till you are at the end of the sentence. The phone does a terrible job of sifting through previously typed words. Its slower than ass. Then you try to go back and fix where you typed used cisco and clear, clear, clear and oh shit i hit the end key and I am back at the home screen , and before you know it the phone is on ebay and you are writing a review on it to remind you of what pissed you off about it.
But aside from that, its probly my fav regular kind of phone. This phone just reminded me of why I need a full qwerty keypad. Other than that its pretty solid.
Pros:
Battery Life is great
Screen is bright and clear
Keypad feels nice
Camera rocks with 2mp
Edge Speed internet
Cons:
Moto software is still laggy
Texting could be improved on
Bad placement of clear/end keys
Our car has made it over a week, and aside from the few little things we still are trying to get fixed, it seems to be a really nice car. It doesn’t have any truck accessories, but that is ok, ya know….since its a car and all. The best part is we are still rocking on the original fill up from when we bought it. I am really digging the remote start too, when I can remember to use it. Hopefully this car will last us a long time. I sure as hell don’t look forward to buying another vehicle.
