Every New Year’s eve is different. This one started off right, by destroying any document in the filing cabinet that I couldn’t come up with a damn good reason to retain. There is simply no reason to keep more than one year’s worth of utility bills, bank statements, credit card bills, or suchlike. It was also gratifying to destroy all record of my abortive DSL relationship with Verizon, as well as the crap from Bally’s, and some temporary credit cards from various stores … all since closed out.
Mounted the external sensor for the weather monitoring station we received for Christmas. I decided to hook it to what I thought was a massive callous on the maple tree in our yard. Apparently it wasn’t all callous because the thing has been weeping from the spot where I attached the sensor. I’m such a softie that I feel awful about this, even though I know that the tiny mounting screws aren’t going to hurt the tree in the long run. Go, go, anthropomorphic powers.
My new phone is the best! I picked up the new Motorola RAZR V3c, and it’s amazing! The little bluetooth headset is comfortable and functional, and I can voice dial with the phone in my pocket! The voice dialing is particularly impressive. I used iSync to dump my entire contact list into the phone. That part was standard Apple user bliss. “Hey, there’s a phone here that I can communicate. Do you want to synchronize your contact list and calendar with it?” Then I started looking for a way to record the names I would use to dial various numbers. That’s not how it works. It uses some kind of voice to text thingamabob to guess which name I said. I’m amazed. I tested out some of the more difficult names on my contact list (Dagdigian, Mukherjee, Van Etten, …) and it nailed them all flawlessly. For people with multiple numbers it asks “mobile, work, or home?” I then say “mobile,” and away we go.
Ah well. Off to the party.
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