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Been busy.
15 Jan 2012 12:05 pmYesterday I was away from my computer most of the day. We did our usual coffee-groceries-farmers market Saturday morning, then I washed towels, did a perfunctory computer check, ate lunch, and drove to Raleigh. I needed to pick up a couple things at Lush, then Daniel was going to root my phone and install cyanogenmod on it.
I left at 12:30, figuring I could get to the mall & be finished there and to L&D's by 2, easily. I didn't factor in that it would take three light rotations to be able to turn into the parking lot, or that there are a metric fuckton of assholes who think they can park their fucking SUVs in the compact spaces, thereby taking up 1.3 spaces each. (But it's a COMPACT SUV! Look, fuckface, I drive a MINI. I can't fit my car in the space left between your SUV, which is over the line on one side, and this other jackass's SUV over the line on the other side.) So I had to park pretty far from where I needed to be, which meant I had to speedwalk across the mall, around people who just randomly stop, etc, rush through Lush, where the sales staff is always "HI HOW CAN I HELP YOU LET'S CHAT!" and speedwalk back to my car. And take five minutes just to get out of the deck. Driving across Raleigh took only slightly longer than getting out of the mall.
So anyway. I gave Daniel my phone, we backed up important things like my SMS/MMS and Angry Birds save file, and he spent the next ... hour or so arguing with the drivers before getting it to install. So my phone's running cyanogenmod now, and I like it so far. I spent several hours reinstalling my apps and poking with the settings. There are a lot of settings.
So far today, I've put my music and photos back on it and figured out how to do custom ringtones (by user!) (ringdroid is your friend). I don't like the default clock/alarm, so I installed kaloer clock, which is nicer. I'm still working on an understanding of the calendar (which isn't gcal, but syncs to it, and I can't figure how to get facebook calendar onto it...).
Right. It's noon. I need to finish reading a book and figure out what on earth I'm doing with my own current in-progress novel. Also lunch. We have some nice artichoke-parmesan spread from WSM and some flatbreads to eat it on. Nom.
(Also, probably roasting a kabocha squash to make puree for dinner. It's in the Thanksgiving issue of Bon Appetit if you want the recipe.)
I left at 12:30, figuring I could get to the mall & be finished there and to L&D's by 2, easily. I didn't factor in that it would take three light rotations to be able to turn into the parking lot, or that there are a metric fuckton of assholes who think they can park their fucking SUVs in the compact spaces, thereby taking up 1.3 spaces each. (But it's a COMPACT SUV! Look, fuckface, I drive a MINI. I can't fit my car in the space left between your SUV, which is over the line on one side, and this other jackass's SUV over the line on the other side.) So I had to park pretty far from where I needed to be, which meant I had to speedwalk across the mall, around people who just randomly stop, etc, rush through Lush, where the sales staff is always "HI HOW CAN I HELP YOU LET'S CHAT!" and speedwalk back to my car. And take five minutes just to get out of the deck. Driving across Raleigh took only slightly longer than getting out of the mall.
So anyway. I gave Daniel my phone, we backed up important things like my SMS/MMS and Angry Birds save file, and he spent the next ... hour or so arguing with the drivers before getting it to install. So my phone's running cyanogenmod now, and I like it so far. I spent several hours reinstalling my apps and poking with the settings. There are a lot of settings.
So far today, I've put my music and photos back on it and figured out how to do custom ringtones (by user!) (ringdroid is your friend). I don't like the default clock/alarm, so I installed kaloer clock, which is nicer. I'm still working on an understanding of the calendar (which isn't gcal, but syncs to it, and I can't figure how to get facebook calendar onto it...).
Right. It's noon. I need to finish reading a book and figure out what on earth I'm doing with my own current in-progress novel. Also lunch. We have some nice artichoke-parmesan spread from WSM and some flatbreads to eat it on. Nom.
(Also, probably roasting a kabocha squash to make puree for dinner. It's in the Thanksgiving issue of Bon Appetit if you want the recipe.)
