Sephy’s Platzish

And it’s not totally for the reason of all the features

If you know me, you know that I can fall in love with things for the most bizarre reasons, and the iPhone is not an exception to that.

They had two available for playing around with at Walmart - the 3G versions, natch, but that really doesn’t matter. So, I see these phones in the electronics section, and I go up to them and start playing with them - first just browsing on the web, then some more browsing and searching, playing with the pinch zoom thingy which is awesome.

Then on the other phone, I went to check out the actual phone portion of the phone that you use for, you know, calling?

An amazing thing happened. Naturally, I didn’t just try out calling locally, I typed in international numbers. Not so much to call, but just to see what happens (because most times phones don’t understand foreign numbering schemes). I type in an Australian mobile number, which is formatted this way - +61 4xx xxx xxx. I expected something odd, but it came up this way -

+61 4xx xxx xxx

Bloody amazing, if you ask me!

Aussie landline: +61 2 xxxx xxxx  - yep!

It gets international phone numbers - for me, that is reason enough to fall in love with a phone

I know it’s been a while since I’ve blogged…but one thing that I had wanted to mention is that since WordPress 2.7 has been released, I figured that this would be a perfect time to mention that if you want someone to go ahead and upgrade your blog to the latest and greatest version of WordPress, I’m your fella

What you get when you do your WordPress upgrade with me is a professional installation of the newest version, backups of your current site, and the peace of mind in knowing that you don’t have to worry about getting something wrong

…but that’s not the whole story.

The job that I started back in March, which has lasted me this while, and has gotten me back into working, has ended. On my own fruition.

Why?

Because I’m starting a new, full-time job tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM.

To say that I’m a bit nervous right now is not a lie - I think the fact that I’ve actually known that I’m making this move for some three weeks now has been good, but also because of it, this has added to the bit of nerves about the whole situation.

However, I’ll get there and I’m sure I’ll fit into the situation right away.

Plus, I have a counselling appointment before I go off to work.

Of course, there is this minor potential hiccup:

Overnight: A chance of rain and snow between midnight and 3am, then snow. Low around 30. West wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Monday: Periods of snow before noon, then a chance of snow showers after 3pm. High near 39. West wind between 10 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

And I just got my car washed…

Anyway, wish me luck, and I’ll (hopefully, if I’m not totally tuckered out tomorrow night) probably post a short update on the first day

Well, that is if you haven’t already voted early.

I’ve been busy the last couple of days with working on things around the house, plus organizing some new things in my life…including becoming very stiff from an exercise bike…I kinda feel like I broke myself, but I think that’s just my body actually adjusting to new movements that I haven’t done in ages.

Anyway, today’s the day we’ve all been waiting for - especially those of us who have gotten a bit of election fatigue coming into the stretch run of the process - and I think it’s fair to say that even if you’ve been involved in political news, etc., that come Wednesday morning (assuming that there’s a result), there will be a lot of vacations in the TV news world

The only thing that you need to remember is that this is the day to go out and vote - vote for the candidate of your choosing. Don’t just vote for them because they’re with this party or that party - vote for them because you’ve looked at how you view issues, and how the candidates view the issues. Go with the one who you are closer to on the issues.

And, to be honest, if you are those voting for a candidate simply because of the party they are in, you might want to seriously rethink how you go about making your election decisions.

Yes, I know I said I was on the way to the Aussie area in the zoo, but before I got there, I went through the wooded plank path which goes through the Wolf enclosure.

While in there, I spotted some workers working on the Boo in the Zoo exhibit, setting up a mummy in a casket and stringing lights for it. Across the way there was a viewing area for the public, and I took a shot. Do you see what I see here?

Then, as I walked further along, I spotted this exhibit of some Totem poles, but something seemed a bit off about one of them.

See if you can spot it