Oh, work.
It’s more than I wanted. The project manager called on my day-off-for-clients wanting to have an important conversation. Which in this business means one of two things: they’re canning the project and you’re gone, or they need more of you. As of now, I’m going to be spending a lot more time here. I know everybody works fulltime, but I became my own bidness specifically to not be an employee of anyone else. Thankfully, I’m still technically not, and the hours are temporary. I just chose ‘life’* over ‘making more money than one person knows what to do with’. I don’t mind it as much because this company has been so awesome to work with, and also because soon enough it’ll be dead-of-winter anyway. Plus, y’all will be getting even better xmas presents this year, and by the time the house is sold I won’t have any debt to pay off, because it’ll already be gone. Which means I’m throwing a hell of a party. * Please note this is the only time I’ll be turning out pro-life hereabouts. Ha. In keeping with the work trend, I have two freelance projects, too. Live code. Breathe code. Whatever. It’s what I do. I got me a new phone from the T-Mobile folks the other day, because my old one, cute as it is, was doing things like turning off whenever I put it down, and not even when I was angrily tossing it on my desk. So I got this one. Since Nokia’s buttons are a mirror image of those on any other phone, I figure stick with what I know or I’ll be hanging up on you all the time. I bitch about shitty companies all the time, so I feel like I should say right now: T-Mobile is the best. I love them so much I want to have, like, ten thousand of their babies. So my phone! I like the camera. I find myself sneaking my digital camera out to take photos in stores, and of crazy people and such, which isn’t terribly popular. This makes it easier. I love the art form of the grainy, too-bright camera photo. I discovered it has this little ‘portait’ setting that turns out tiny rectangular photos like stickerbooths and Joycams. I’ll post them when I get myself near a Photoshoppe. I don’t know how much I’ll use the video, but you know. It’s a toy. Last night I figured out how to connect it to my laptop via infrared, so that makes all of that a lot more functional. The second I figure out how to sync it to my Yahoo calendar, you’ll hear me cheering. Since the IR stuff was way tricker than it should be, I’ll just go ahead and save you the hassle: the IR port is disabled by default in the BIOS. W2k with SP3 does support it natively, so don’t believe the lies. You just turn on IR on your phone, aim it at the port, and it’ll detect it and add shortcuts to the desktop, then you drop files on it. Did I mention this phone has a 32mb smartcard? Badass. A fact which probably interests only me is that the IR connection (only while active) knocked my whole wireless network offline. Yeah, the wireless card lives right next to that port, but they’re totally different things: infrared vs radio frequencies. I cannot get the J2ME app that posts to my lj working, though. I’m using a web service instead. Sigh. I know this phone is supported, I just can’t figure out what’s wrong, and developer boy over there in Russia ain’t responding to email. Anyway. I’ll shut up about my new phone now. I have big vacation dreams now that I know I can’t really plan anything big til next year. I need an alone-trip and a together-trip. I think the alone-trip will be road-tripping New England in the spring. I should be ambitious about the other, since I may have the time and resources early next year, if all goes as planned. I’m wondering about Morocco. This rambling stops only for lunch. Later.Jenni