Out in the cold rain and . . . #fb

Dressed for biking this morning, but it is drizzling, so I am on the
bus. 84H, so I will get off at Highland Village. Originally thought I
would bike to the YWCA and Nina's.

It has been drizzling or lightly rainy here for days, which has gotta
be good for the planet, but does get just sort of downright miserable.

On the way home on the bus, this woman gets on, wearing one of those
clear-plastic kerchiefs on her head, and on in a loud voice--"why do
we have to have this kind of weather? I hate it. I hate it. Why can't
we have Miami weather?" kind of cute this first time or two, but just
too loud and lost its charm after a while. The driver seemed pretty
accustomed. "It's God," he said. "Say your prayers. People can't do
nothin about the weather."

--
David
www.schons.net

Kitty's cat retires to Florida

Having a little discussion with Lou about not pronouncing her "R"s as
"W"s. She is sitting at the diningroom table, at her laptop withits
Deutsch keyboard, writing a story, in German for some online contest.

Dorothea and I walked in the rain to yoga at Ramsey Junior High.
Kitty, the instructor, told the story of how cat of fifteen years was
retiring to Florida. An aunt there will take the cat. The cat had to
go because Kitty's grandson, who lives with her, is allergic.

The cat's flight was scheduled to arrived Florida while we were in
class. Right in the middle of a sun salutation, Kitty asked if she
could use someone's phone. Fall asleep in Minnesota, wake up in
Florida, permanently. Doesn't sound so bad.

Frustrated with writing on the iPhone. I charged up the 'ol T-mobile
Wing, with its ample, mechanical keyboard. It is no longer a
functioning phone, but otherwise is working, and does have wireless.
And, to be honest, I like using the little pen-pointer thingy.

Also, it is a real computer. Several programs running at the same
time. Java and Adobe Flash. Mmmmm.

--
David
www.schons.net

Still looking for a good way to get text into the iPhone as quickly as typing.

Still looking for a good way to get text into the iPhone as quickly as
typing. While this handwriting software is amazing, it is still
slower and somewhat error-prone.

31 degrees F this morning. Walking the dog was also an exercise in
empty beer bottle and can pick up. College students.

We are still without heat at our house. Well, we have heat, but it is
coming out of plugged-in electrical space heaters. On Friday, I
thought we finally had the heat problem licked when the furnace guy
showed up, with the part, and actually installed the part, on the
furnace. But alas, the next problem appeared, a leak in a pipe. I
have calls out to two plumbers. A little hardship is not necessarily a
bad thing, but even a little hardship opens the door to thoughts of
total collapse. A spiritual, psychological, physical exercise.

Today is the Twins game Liam and I put so much effort into for
getting tickets. Go Twins. Please.

-- This message was composed with PhatWare WritePad.

David
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Hello world. How are you doing? I am trying to write using the iPhone WritePad.

Hello world. How are you doing? I am trying to write using the iPhone
WritePad. It is slow going. Might be faster to type. How to make a
period would be good to know.
:
Oh well. The keyboard might be best for periods.
.
I got up this morning about 3:30 which for me was a good night's
sleep. Messed around until I got myself together. Andro Gel,
Phentramine, vitamins. Got dressed in bike clothes. Biked to the YWCA.
This was the first tine in a long time. Ironically both studios had
classes so I just stretched and Came over to Nina's. Here I have been
distracted wilt this WritePad app.

Time for me to move on.

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David
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Full moon walk #fb

At Nina's. Thinking I'd jot a note and have some coffee. The line at
the counter is long though. And I realized that because i am on my
bike, I'd have to finish it but don't feel i have the time. I grabbed
a Naked Juice and sat down. Illicit.

Love illicit.

I'll pay for it now.

This time of year is generally the anniversary of Tomas's death, it
was late Friday early Saturday of Labor Day weekend.

Beauty, Holly, Dorothea, and I are going to do the Common Ground full
moon walk.

Sent from my iPhone

Fwd: Monday, at Madeline's urging, we went to the AT&T store. Our

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: David Schons <david.schons@gmail.com>
Date: July 29, 2009 11:10:35 PM CDT
To: david.schons@gmail.com
Subject: Monday, at Madeline's urging, we went to the AT&T store. Our

Monday, at Madeline's urging, we went to the AT&T store. Our two- year contract with T-mobile has been up since April. She wanted Verizon because they had a phone she liked. I wanted an iPhone, a Pre, or at least an Android, none of which were top be had at Verizon.

T-mobile doesn't work with my employer's paging. (I have realized, however, that i probably don't want top get work pages on my personal cellphone, anyway?)

The Palm Pre odds with Sprint, and I've heard bad things about their service.

Oh, T-mobile has the Android. See the paging note above.

That left the AT&T/Apple cabal. I am at their mercy.

Madeline ended up loving her phone, a Nokia of some sort or other. Liam loves Dorothea's.

Me, I was thinking of the whole enchilatta, the 32 GB S, but they didn't have black in stock. So, I did not get to eat the whole marshmallow. Not yet.

Now, I have to figure out what to do with the itouch I bought a few months ago?


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RAGBRAI as memory

I am at Nina's. Bright-sunny, beautifully cool morning. I have done my
YWCA thing--stretched, meditated, lifted, ellipticalled.

Tomorrow, my fate is back to work. My week long vacatio ends. Much
will have changed in my work world. A consultant started last
Monday--a contractor via our vendor, basically. This week, another
vendor will be in for a three-day proof-of-concept. (Their tool finds
memory leaks--it has probably been memory leaks that have been at the
root of our misery for these last several months.)

I return to being oncall. I am the lead to get another new product
working for our code deployments and version control. (At least I
think I am the lead.) And, it is my turn for the pesky quarterly
disaster recovery exercise.

But for now, it is ogling whatever it is that I can find to ogle
coming in the door. Oogle, maybe?

D. And M. are coming to the Y. I am contemplating a bike ride. Not
terribly imaginative. I am sort of reluctant. I started snorting
Nasonex about a week ago for hay fever allergies. Now thinking I
should suppliment with Claritin. It would be classic to go for a ride
and to thereby get totally allergy wiped out.

The RAGBRAI 2009 is now history, but spiritually lives on. I am
currently dressed in some of the hundreds of dollars of biking clothes
I bought for the event.

Last nihgt at about 2:00 AM, the Molasses Asses bus form Shenandoah,
IA pulled up to and stopped at the house next door. And, I saw and
took a picture of that bus ths morning. It was parked around the
corner. Tried posting it to Twitpic, though didn't seem to work.

Pictures of the bike ride in general are to be found at the website of
The Destination Moines Register. I posted photos SomeKindaPossible on
Flickr.

--
David
www.schons.net