I’m rather impressed with the amount of snow coming down at the moment.
Snowmageddon CHS 2010
Barkley: Year 1
Barkley was adopted just over a year ago and today I got another update from his new family. It’s so great to hear about former foster dogs doing so well.
First anniversary, which we consider his birthday was this Monday! The only reason he kept from freaking out wearing the hat was because we were holding pizza. (we tried to put one on him for maggies birthday, without the allure of pizza, and he ran to the third floor and hid.)
We flipped past ST:TNG last night and watched, because you said Barkley was named for a character, so we were trying to spot him! I looked up the character, because you said they were similar, and read that Barclay was afraid of the transporter! Perfect!
He is still terrified of vacuums. He still needs a nylabone constantly- really likes to gnaw at midnight and 6am on the bed. He still rolls around on his back kicking his legs when he’s entertaining himself. He now drops a tennis ball at my feet all day long- and when I’m in bed on my head all night long. He’s a good runner, we do 3 miles a day. Many days the finish line of our run is the fish store, so they each get a cooked shrimp as a reward. He saw his first crane (as in the bird) on the river and went cuckoo, since it’s on our running path he searchs for it every day. He doesn’t seem to mind the snow.
Cliq: Month 1
I still don’t remember what the phone number for this thing is. Have to look in my PDA for it still. If you ask me for my number and I say I can’t give it to you, it’s not that I don’t want to (well, actually I probably don’t want to) but because I can’t remember it to give to you.
Battery life seems better after a couple of deep discharge/charge cycles along with dumping a few apps that I decided I don’t need, and turning off notifications I can live without. I can leave it alone in stand-by mode all day and it’s only down to ~90% charge, rather than less than 50% charge. Actually using the phone still sucks down the battery pretty fast though, especially with wi-fi turned on.
Starting to get by with Google Calendar for keeping track of appointments and calendar-y stuff. It’s definitely no DateBk though.
Note Everything and Astrid are filling in nicely for Memo and ToDo.
Could really use a simple relational database app like SmartList To Go.
Starting to break out of the habit of trying to Grafitti text. At least the keyboard is pretty decent.
Getting used to it clipped to my waist and clanging against the pager, but I don’t always notice when it’s not there. That means I will happily not notice that I’ve forgotten the phone at home. That also probably means I will not notice if it gets bumped off or forgotten somewhere (which hopefully won’t happen).
Cliq is growing on me, but the T3 is still the first thing I reach for.
Photos on exhibit
One of the co-organizers for the photo meetup group, Kevin, arranged to have photos taken by meetup members put up on exhibit at the West Ashley Barnes and Noble for the month of February. There’s a pretty amazing selection of photos that were submitted and the first set of photos went up on display last week. Stop in and check them out!
This is the photo I’ll have on display when the next set goes up
Aside from the photo gallery, it will be the first time I’ve had any of my photos out on display in public. How exciting!
I had a 16×20 printed out at Sam’s Club, which turned out really good. The large format print seems like it has a much bigger impact than the same photo on the computer. Must be the size.
Ziti and sausage
Ted’s Sweet Italian Sausage / Baked Ziti with Fresh-made Mozzarella / Smoked Eggplant and Zucchini Caponata / Lemon Pudding Cake
