Jake’s Life

Well after that whole car fiasco I needed something to make me feel better.

Okay, well I have a bit more self direction than that, but that’s just what I say.

I picked up the new T-Mobile Wing yesterday and decided that if I don’t like it or get that awful buyer’s remorse I would take it back. I do, after all, love my Dash. Before I got it I placed a Craigslist ad for my Dash to help pick up some of the cost of the Wing, and found an almost immediate buyer. I met with him in the early hours of the morning at a Shell station and we found his old Voicestream SIM card wasn’t working. He went and got a new one this morning, so that was sold, and now I paid about 60% of my Wing’s price off with my Dash. This doesn’t mean I had buyer’s remorse…it could have been letting-go-of-my-Dash remorse though.

So far I like the Pocket PC version of Windows Mobile 6 a lot. It’s more involved, obviously, and one thing I miss about the Dash is one handed messaging. The Wing has a set of keys on the left side, as well as the right. On the right (thumb area while holding it like a normal phone) is Voice Command and Messaging. Left side is the volume slider and camera app. The front has the usual keys: Send, End, left soft, right soft, and a navigation wheel with center key. It also has a Windows key and an OK key. It sounds crowded, but it doesn’t really feel like it.

So far I’ve installed the following:

Resco Explorer 2007: replacement for the file explorer and has several useful plugins such as registry editor, etc.

Spb Finance: financial tracking app which can sync with Money/Quicken/QFX files from your bank.

Spb Insight: RSS reader.

Spb Mobile Shell: This is a shell replacement which many PPC users preach about. Still trying it out.

Also, my car reached my birth year! I know, Sandro says I’m a geek too.

Every weekend I spend with Sandro. Most of my weekend, anyway. Depending on what we have going on (homework, errands, work, etc.) we always set aside time for each other. Take for instance this weekend: I have a five page paper due on Tuesday evening, and after my Thu-Sat weekend I work, so I try to get homework done during those three days. Most of that homework was done with him sleeping next to me clamped onto my arm, sometimes snoring. I kept odd hours, asleep at 4 a.m., awake at noon.I had to clean out my garage which took some time. I had to do a few other things as well. He was patient, let me do what I needed to do, and even though we were not directly interacting the entire time we at least spent it together.

Every weekend when I drop him off at home and get back to work I can never wrap my mind around how I got what we have.

They both fly, I guess. Well, one does right now, and one doesn’t.

I looked at a T-Mobile Wing today at the mall, and it’s pretty effin’ sweet. I’ve read a lot about it lately in comparison to the MDA: same processor, enhanced features, and the rubberized exterior that I love about my Dash so much. T-Mobile can give it to me for $349 with 2 more years (which is no big deal, Tmo is great for me), but I’ve found it on Craigslist lately for $300 or less.

I have also been posting on Craigslist lately to get rid of my Thunderbird…which ran great when I parked it and started driving my new Scion. Today someone and their son came over, we started it, and it looks like the small tranny leak became larger, the oil gasket is toast, and there may be alternator issues. Well fuck. I am happy that I decided to get a new car when I could afford it as it probably would have died on me when I needed it, but I also won’t be getting my asking price of $1800 for it.

Not sure about this much though.

Well, tonight is my Friday. The night before last was very busy for us…I cleared 14 incidents on my own. While I have worked busy nights like that before, on the weekends, I haven’t worked the weekends for months now. With Summer being here people stay out later all week, and of course, schools are out.

Last night on the other hand was pretty slow. I took some time at a car wash to clean the patrol car out, vacuum it, clean the seats, the inside glass, and organize things.

My school courses are going okay so far. Both classes don’t run very traditionally. Whereas before we would have one assignment per week, usually an essay, one of my current courses has one every other week (four total), the other only has the midterm and final projects. It’s a nice way to end my schooling for now.

I was going through a few of my endless CD’s which I’ve used to back up my data–none of then labeled properly of course–and found some more essays from my first year in school. I’ve uploaded them to my Scribd page.

Some of the good one’s I’ve found.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

40 Years of Trek

NIN Trek

White Rabbit Trek

Brokeback Trek

Time Warp

Police take a back seat in pursuit of the bad guys.

If only law enforcement was this easy in the US. I’m surprised they weren’t having a spot o’ tea while nee-nawing in the backseat. No wonder they don’t carry firearms over there.

Gay bombs.

Eh, I’ve heard wierder.

Throughout the next week or two I will be throwing together a post about my life in general: Where I come from, how it was growing up, and so forth.

I’m going to say that most of it would probably end up shocking anyone who has talked to me, and some who even know me and part of the story. Why would I do it? It’s been inside for a while now, and I’ve told others bits and pieces, but I want it all out.