Blog of Billy

I'm back to running a few times a week. After my vegetarian episode, I had actually gained a few pounds, and lost some muscle tone. Apparently I was supposed to eat protein during that phase? I'm also waking up early, and being at work by 7 a.m. It's like the start of a whole new healthy adult Billy. I'm really scared.

A recent trip to Othello's in Norman reminded me that there need to be more good Italian restaurants, and fewer mediocre ones.

Why do they advertise the Lucerne on facebook? Is it to make me want one even more? Am I not the only college student who dreams of "precisely what the critics are raving about"?

Probably the biggest change in the last couple of weeks is the replacement of my old N400 with a shiny black A900. Ole' Flippy was starting to have problems with her power cord that kept her from staying awake for more than a couple of hours. Surprisingly, that's the first thing that annoyed me about the A900. The rundown:

Goodness

• Still in color
• The mini-screen is growing on me
• Crazy-fast and lots of memory for J2ME. I have a little sky chart and Opera for Pete's sake.
• Better access to previous calls. One-touch for recent missed, incoming, and outgoing.
• An alarm clock with a snooze!
• I can jump to phonebook entries from my recent calls list.
• SMS text messaging. No more stupid website thing.
• MP3 playing. It's not really nice, but it's enough to keep me from buying an iPod Mini.
• Camera. We'll see how much use it gets.
• Bluetooth. We'll see how much use it gets. Probably more than the camera.
• Even more little web things than I could hope for.

Unfortunateness

• The worst part is the power cord. It's giant and sticks out the side. When it's plugged into the car charger, there is no way to hold it to your head comfortably. there's also no way to set it down flat on its back without bending the little plastic cover piece. It's really annoying.
• The second worst is the lack of any useful punctuation in the T9Word method of typing. They actually took out things like the question mark in the revisions between the N400 and the new one.
• Still no info on the duration of a call
• It's a full-on flip phone. I gave up on the thin sliders once the guy at the Sprint Store told me that there would be no such new ones in the near future.

Al McAffrey seems to be a pretty good guy. He's running for State House in D88. He's also openly gay. I got the opportunity to shake his hand and such while marching with him in the pride parade, something I haven't gotten to do in 5 years or so. It was a lot of energetic fun. I like his politics, but whatever joker did the website doesn't seem to know much about browsers. Either way, if you're in that district, and vote, you should give him a look.

Absence of reference in this blog should not be taken as a slight.

Would I could afford to buy my love a fine gown,
Made of gold and silk Arabian thread.
But I am dead and gone and laying in a church ground.