Birthday
First and foremost, today is my sister’s birthday. I would like to congratulate her on being born.
I finally took it upon myself to break my lease. I haven’t been in my apartment but two or three hours in the past three months and I’ve got four more months left before I’ll be around the area again to be staying there. I figured out that it wasn’t worth it to pay for an apartment, water, electricity and cable Internet when I wasn’t ever even there to use it. That’s going to make quite a big difference in my bank account each month! It does mean I’ll have to repeat the rental hunt again when I’m ready, but I figure that’s well worth the cost.
I got a new phone (this is the first time in a while) and I have to say I really like it. It’s based on the Android platform (an open-source telephone operating system by Google) and so far things are going really well. It is really kind of a geek phone which ends up being perfect for me. It also had the added bonus of being something I can fiddle with in my spare time.
We were looking up FIOS for our area hoping we would be able to get something that doesn’t work as terribly as Time Warner Cable’s RoadRunner Cable Internet. Unfortunately, the neighborhood doesn’t have the initial fiber that is essential to get 50Mb/sec goodness. It doesn’t seem like the rollout is happening any too quickly in our area which means we’re still having some buffering issues on hulu when all of us are using the same connection. I’m amazed that in the year 2009 (almost 2010) we haven’t gotten to the point of ubiquitous network connectivity at speeds that are faster than the measly 3, 7 or 15 Mb/s we have right now. For all the technological innovation, I would think we could have come up with something better.
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6 December 2009 1300
By Sarah, 11 December 2009 @ 2259
I sincerely hope you gave a geeky laugh, snorted and pushed up your glasses when you finished that last paragraph.
By JPF, 15 December 2009 @ 1635
Actually, I’m thinking her parents need some congratulating, too. Particularly her mother.