Bye Bye Blackberry

After two and a half years of mostly frustration, I am awaiting the arrival today of my new iphone 4s.  Which at 3:15 pm is still on a Fed Ex truck, apparently. Goodbye to wordmole, brickbreaker, stale applications, a draining battery, a water stained screen, and keys you have to pound into press.  Hello to cool aps, probably another mediocre battery, siri, music, and a touchscreen. I will certainly miss the keyboard, but that will be about it. Let's pray the transition goes smoothly, and hurray to new phones!

New Tunes

The laptop is up and running and all of my very precious, valuable music has been restored. No, it would not have been the end of the world if I had to re-upload some pieces, but I would have been very unhappy.

I am enjoying new tunes by Tired Pony, Lissie, Angus & Julia Stone, Guster, Pete Yorn, and many other finds. Almost too many to recall right now. And I'm listening to the new Kings of Leon right now on Spinner, and I agree that the single Radioactive is quite catchy and maybe worthwhile of purchase.

I really could spend hours organizing and re-organizing my music. In about 10 weeks, I will get to come up with my long-awaited best of 2010.  I have a few ideas of what definitely will go on, like Frightened Rabbit, Shout Out Louds, the National, Delta Spirit, etc. but it will require a great deal of music reviewing to come up with the final list.

Yeah New Laptop

About time!

That is all...

I miss my laptop

I'm dying without new music. SO many good CDs out like the new KT Tunstall and Tired Pony. I want Tired Pony!

That is all.

I really, really, really will not miss work for the rest of the week. Not at all.

Laptop Misery

So my computer is still in intensive care and I'm considering a transplant as a last ditch effort. UGH. Not good. I'm feeling naked without having constant access to the computer, and a blackberry is just not an ample substitute.

Sigh. Please something go right this week.

And I notice that my other post labeled technology is about how I LOVE my then-new computer. And now, a little more than 2.5 years later, not so much. HATE that computer. I miss my music!!!

New Computer!

I love love love my new computer. Lenovo Thinkpad R61. It actually synced my entire itunes library, including music that mysteriously would not play previously. Oh, and there is actually memory on it! So very exciting. My CD drive works, and I finally had a chance to enter the Chantal In My Life song. All of these years later. And the Fratellis CD from last summer, too.

I am finally home from LA. I voted yesterday, for McCain. I wish I would be a bit more enthusiastic about it, but I have a feeling he will have a tough time vs. Obama. Hillary, too, but Obama certainly has to mojo now. Hillary is going down, down, and I really can't wait to see it. But if there's a price to be paid in November? I'm very interested to see who the Veep pick will be.