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- Highs in the 70s, lows in the 40s on deck! Woohoo! I hereby proclaim Saturday the first soup night of the season.
- I’ll have a Kindle Fire. (Wow, those words on the web come back to haunt you sometimes.) In my defense, this is not what “Kindle” meant in May 2008.
- How’s your stress surge capacity? I found out this week that mine isn’t as robust as I might have liked to believe. I need to work on that. It’s not something you can really practice, but you can definitely get your head in a better place.
- The boys have been after me for Popeyes. You know, I’d bet that east of the Mississippi, it’s pretty tough to be any further from one than we are at home. I may make the trek for Sunday lunch, after church but before the race. I doubt I can make the round-trip in an hour.
- Nissan sent me gushing email today to let me know that the 6,500th LEAF has been delivered. (I’m sure I’m on Nissan’s email list because of the Technical Writing Express, though I don’t remember how that happened.) I saw one in the metal the last time we were visiting friends in Nashville. It photographs poorly. It’s not beautiful, but it’s not as goofy-looking as pictures of it are.
- Well, I was confused. Apparently Facebook hasn’t rolled out the new timeline-based profile to anyone yet, but you can get it now if you want it.
- So I’ve been trying out my voice-to-text feature on my phone. It works pretty well most of the time, but it prudishly puts asterisks for curse words. (Wow, it knows some seriously nasty words, too.)
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I don’t want a generic looking facebook blog front. I was okay with facebook when it was basically “Twitter, but with people you know in real life and stuff.” I do not want more ways to tell everybody about EVERYTHING I do. I’ll keep my profile so old friends can find me, and I’ll pop in every now and then, but the last few days of scaling back my interaction by about 90% has done a world of good for my psyche.
I’ve just decided that being bombarded with ambient awareness of the minutia of everyone’s lives is simply unhealthy. Hey, guess what brand of toilet paper I “like?”
I sent my husband a link to an article on the Kindle Fire today. A not-so-subtle hint as to what he can get me for Christmas.
Voice-to-text? Seems like the addition of an unnecessary step.
‘seester, I don’t think BoWilliams.com is in any danger of going away, and I see myself keeping a Twitter account too. I’m carefully examining what I do with anything else. We’ll see.
Jenny, boys like help like that. He appreciates it! 🙂
Lee, it really helps out when I’m drinking, driving, and texting at the same time. Heh. Seriously, it saves a good bit of time, and helps me get along with the onscreen keyboard better, which I’m still not warming to.