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Prima

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As you may have gathered, this is the stack o’ seventies speakers that arrived from that estate sale on Saturday. They had more speakers and some LPs too but I felt uncomfortable pawing though the deceased’s stuff.

There was a bocce set that I shoulda snagged too, though. Oh well.

This is also the first test of the Nokia 6620 for moblogging. There’s apparently no way to apply rotation to images stored on the camera, so when this post first appeared, the image was sideways. The image resolution is pretty low, too. Wonder if that’s configurable.

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Tape

One of the things that made it into my car at that estate sale was a vintage Sony tape deck with analog VU meters. Happily, it works just fine. I still have many many tapes from twenty years ago, often of LPs I had checked out of the library. It will be fun to pick through them and hear some stuff i haven’t bent ear to in about fifteen years, I think. First up: Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs.

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Gas

Yesterday Viv and I smelled gas in the house and called Puget Sound Energy to check for the source. The technician found a leak in a pipe that appears to lead to the kitchen. PSE then cut our gas at the meter until the leak is repaired.

We called an insurance carrier we’ve used for house issues in the past and they referred a plumber. Unfortunately, they were no-shows all day yesterday and expressed confusion over why they were called as opposed to a furnace shop when we contacted them.

It’s cold in the house without heat this morning. I worked in the yard all day yesterday – I’m rather ripe.

Cold canned beans for dinner tonight as we shiver under ragged blankets tented over a can of Sterno loom.*

*Hyperbole.

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Phoning it in

Happily, I have been able to get iSync to work with the substitute phone that Eric was kind enough to send to me, the Nokia 6620. Aggravatingly, the phone is officially unsupported by Cingular. This seems to be the source of some peculiar issues and flakiness in connectivity for data. Also, at first blush, there are some issues with the way that Opera renders GMail and other Google Services pages. I’m guessing this is some kinda AJAX javascript deal and that possibly the version of Opera on the phone needs to be updated.

Similarly, I can’t find a decent SMMTP/POP mail client in the apps on the phone. This makes sense as steering the phone user to operate the SMS client on the phone builds revenue for the carrier. The fuckers.

Finally, numeric keypad text entry is clearly proof that Satan is active in the world today.