So it’s Thursday.
I’m leaving tonight, and I will be spending the night in San Francisco. I just can’t believe that I’m going to be seeing my mom and my awesome Grandma Jean in less than 24 hours. Okay, maybe it’s a little more than 24 hours… but that’s what it feels like.
My uncle won’t be getting out of physical therapy tomorrow like they had hoped, so we will be making frequent trips to the hospital.
Record of the week is Intercept! by Bent. I’ve been listening to this one on repeat for days. They’re like a cross between chk chk chk, Royksopp, and and the Presets.
I sprained my foot on the stairs at work, so I’ve been hobbling around on one bad knee and one bad foot the last two days, but tonight I think I am actually able to walk normally.
Last night I went over to Christen’s place and we watched this awesomely terrible movie. I was totally in the mood to be depressed by a movie, but that one ended up being really funny for how superficial and terrible it was. I was bored on my lunch break at work so I found out that the woman that wrote the script actually has a blog. I have to say, it was just as haphazard as her direct-to-DVD film.
I woke up in the morning, walked Sota around the block, and went to work. It was there that my most recent awesomeness happened. I signed up for the service that I had wanted for a long time but was unable to justify the cost of. It’s by Jott, that company that does the Twitter by voice thing. If you sign up for their voicemail service ($10 a month) they will transcribe all your voicemails and send them to you as SMSes. Isn’t that fucking awesome? I absolutely despise checking my voicemail, so this is the perfect Christmas present to myself. The only question is whether I will go over my 40 voicemails per month limit. I really doubt that I get more than 40 voicemails a month.
I thought I was going to have all this extra money, but it it turns out I went way over on my T-Mobile bill. Apparently one of my myFaves changes never went through and all of those minutes were billed as overage minutes at $.40 cents a pop. I really despise T-Mobile, but they are really the best. I mean, what’s the alternative? AT&T? *shudder*
I installed the minutes used Firefox extension so that this will never happen again, hopefully. I kept racking my brain all yesterday as to why I never got a minutes overage and I realize it’s because I always had that extension installed. It must have been the Firefox 3 beta that didn’t support it.
Got an e-mail from Andrew tonight… I guess his phone actually did die. When I called last week, it rang five or six times which made me think that it was still active. I guess my habit of never leaving messages doesn’t pay off in the long run.
I’m still loving this application EventBox. It groups all your social networking stuff into one app. Facebook status updates and pictures, Flickr pictures from my contacts, and Twitter updates are all shown in this translucent overlay window every few hours and I can reply at my leisure. I even bought the pro version for $15 or so. I like desktop apps that grab data from online services in novel ways. In this vein, I also am an avid supporter of Mailplane, the desktop gmail client.
I worked a lot on my websites at work, making sure they validate. I had to do quite a bit of work to iron out all the kinks and make the new site work, but it eventually validated.
I’ve been doing a lot of sketching regarding the new portfolio site, and I keep churning out designs at an ever-increasing pace, but I feel like I’m severely limited. Either I create an ultramodern site bathed in javascript which is fugly to people with javascript disabled, or I create a mediocre design that will still render correctly in IE6. I’m hoping to accomplish javascript hackery and an extensible, accessible site.
Maybe I’m overthinking this. I mean, I really only have three sites to show off, and only one I have designed from the ground up. Hm. I’ll work on it more when I’m in the city. I can’t go anywhere without my MacBook and my drawing tablet. I’m going to force myself to decide on a design by the end of the week. I’ve been working on this theme of cubes…it’ll be awesome.