Archive for the year 2005
Posted on September 4, 2005 by Ching under Toys, Wishlist.
Here’s a review of my new phone from Engadget. I sold my old phone, the D415, to mom and dad for $60. I think I could’ve gotten more for it on eBay, considering that it’s still selling for around $345 new ($199 with a service plan/contract through T-Mobile), but hey it’s family so you can only ask for so much. The price on the old phone has dropped some, though, because I remember last year it was $299 with a plan/contract. I wasn’t dumb enough to pay that much, though. Although, I did fall prey to the fancy phone seduction because my new phone cost me quite a bit. However, since I didn’t pay the Expansys price (which incidentally has dropped to less than $500 since I first started shopping around for this phone), I still think I got a pretty good deal. Not as good of a deal as when I thought it was $700, though. Based on the price it is now, I only saved $150 or so. I need to work on my bargain-hunting skills. So anyway, this is supposed to be my birthday gift this year so I guess I need to make the most of out it and learn to love it. And I need to take care of it better than the last one because I may not be getting another phone for a few years. Unless, of course, T-Mobile releases an irressistible new camera phone.
Posted on September 4, 2005 by Ching under Life.
Brian and I caught Rome today. Have you all seen it? It’s really good. On one scene Pullo gives a whore a fierce shagging from behind. A few scenes later, a doctor is operating on his skull. Totally gruesome. “I love HBO!” I couldn’t help exclaiming. To which Brian just responds with a chuckle. The show suits my morbid taste. LOL. Seriously though, the writing and acting are equally great. I think we are going to have to watch this show regularly. Thank God for DVR.
Posted on September 3, 2005 by Brian under Life.
Well where do I start. I guess I should start with my friend Feifel. I am happy to say the he escaped Kansas and now lives in Idaho. He got a great job as an assistant manager for a Radio Shack their. Way to go Feifel, I’m very proud of you.
I guess next I could say that I lost a friend, someone that I considered a brother. Jason left for Atlanta a week ago, I found out that his last day was Sunday the 21st of August. My sister in law told me and I was pretty upset. I messaged him but I didn’t get any response. I’m trying to decide what hurts most, the fact that he left with out so much as a good by or the fact that he left without any word at all (almost like he was sneaking away). I guess everyone has their reasons and someday I hope to find out his.
Then recently my mother lost her job. Normally people that loose their jobs are upset for a few days then they get over it and move on. My mother on the other hand was really tore up over the whole ordeal. I’m probably going to get yelled at for writing about this event but I guess their are always negatives when writing about life. So anyway, she is really tore up that she got canned and no amount of reassurance is cheering her up. One thing that has made me stronger in this work world is the realization that I am not invincible and that if I don’t keep my nose clean and my act (relatively) straight then I get my ass kicked to the curb. I think that some of the times that I have been fired I truly deserved it, some of the other times was purely politics and I don’t play politics. However, as my father has recently pointed out, I tend to turn the worst of events into the best thing that has ever happened. My last job was the perfect example of that. I left my job due to some personal reasons and some political reasons, I was out of work for almost six months and this put a hugh strain on my wife and I’s relationship. We worked threw everything and our relationship is now stronger than it has ever been. We also have a better grasp of our finances and we don’t “Needlessly” throw money away like we used to. I also have a better job (I don’t make as much money but money’s not everything)with less stress and a better overall work environment. My stress level has diminished so much that my Doctor recently took me off my solved because it was making me sick and I apparently didn’t need it any more. He said that my body was beginning to reject my current level of medication and that it wasn’t necessary for me to be on it. This has made my wife happy because she never liked me being on it to begin with. Others that know me are probably going to stay far far away because I tend to be somewhat of a prick with out my meds, Feifel can attest to that. I have been trying to point out to my mother that things happen for a reason and that if she lets this tear her up she will never be successful again. However, if you look to the bright side of things and believe that this is good and that you can overcome this and make a better life then you will and it will be everything you want.
Other things that have been going on. My friend Branden and I are currently training to be firemen for the City of Wichita and my alliance in OGame is up to 10 members now. Other than that the one thing that I thought would never happen finally happened, I have been suckered into playing a role playing game. Anyone that knows me knows that I despise role playing games and have never wanted to play role playing games. I took on a favor for Branden and drew his character for his “Rifts” game. I decided that I was going to draw my character from the stuff I had learned from the books he let me borrow, I guess that meant that I was going to play. Now I am drawing everyone’s characters. I love the characters and the books are pretty cool, character development is something of a passion of mine and I love that form of creativity. I’m just not sure how I will like the whole roll play aspect of everything, guess well see.
Other than that I don’t have much else. I’m sorry mom if my blog offends or hurts you it wasn’t meant to, it was meant to inspire and energize!
Posted on September 3, 2005 by Ching under Toys.
It arrived yesterday. Been playing with it. Still can’t get regular email to work, however, I can upload pictures to Flickr the same way that I was doing it with my old D415 – just send it via MMS. It is annoying because I really want to be able to send regular email to people. I will just have to deal with it though because if I want regular pop email, I’ll have to sign up for T-Mobile Web. It’s pretty cheap actually at just $5.99 a month for the service. So it’s not the cost that is the obstacle. The problem is the necessary settings I need are not listed on the web. I cannot call T-Mobile for help because they don’t support this phone. Besides, most of the T-Mobile customer service reps are clueless anyway. I tried calling yesterday and was asking for POP settings and the girl on the other hand was so confused you’d think I was speaking a different language. So I’m kind of stuck. MMS it is, I guess.
Posted on September 3, 2005 by Ching under Babies, Sex.
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