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Last week, with the pending
Nokia Lumia 900 launch looming, I conned Lisa into upgrading her AT&T feature (dumb) phone to my precious. Verizon still has no other options for Windows Phones so I must live my dreams through Lisa's account. It arrived today and I of course
benchmarked my army of Windows Phones immediately. Lisa has been using the Focus Flash as her secondary phone for several months now, refusing to embrace the smartphone era fully. I could see the social apps sucking her resistance away and knew it was time to strike, but I stopped short of using mind games to get her to choose the Focus as her new phone. In the end, the luscious 4.3" AMOLED screen that dazzled me from day one is what put her off of it, preferring the smaller form factor. Overjoyed, I hugged my new Nokia and drifted off to sleep dreaming of skipping through meadows holding hands with my new friend.
Today my trusty and only recently
PITA Cougar turns 13 years old. The
first photo I ever took of it involved shenanigans and it's helped define my girlish lifestyle ever since. As a birthday present, I got new
Eagle GT 225/45ZR17 tires, and we'll count my decision against sending it to the crusher when the transmission case went as a present as well. My Cougars birthday is so well known,
Excelcier decided to
throw a party for it. After begging Lisa to skip Easter photos I was on my way to the nerdiest celebration of my cars life. There was no cake.
What began with my cat Sam has now passed to my daughter. Awkward places such as the refrigerator crisper and microwave which were once popular photo opportunities for Sam, are now being revisited by Lila. Despite the unoriginal locations, the comedy level seems to be the same, so they will continue. I now present:
Lila in the crisper
Unable to decide the color of my new Focus ST, I decided to hand over responsibility to the Facesbook. Relieved of my 1st world problem, I checked back in a few days to discover semen white was the overwhelming choice. While not a big fan of white, it was probably the best choice given the
options availble. The yellow and red will get me tickets, 13 years of silver eliminates that, the blue looks as purple as my truck and black is scratch fever. That leaves white, which is apparently what I'm getting. I'm sure I won't even remember the outside color once I can finally drive one.
I can't stand Instagram. It's an app that applies various filters to your photos and then uploads them to Facebook with the filters PERMANENTLY applied. Anyone who does a Facebook dive into their past that doesn't back up original photos will be wishing they had the unfiltered photos instead of the fad-craze version as the only copy. Fortunately, I found
this article which makes all the sarcastic insults for me and saves me some effort writing this. Oh yeah, APRIL FOOLS, but for real Instagram sucks.
Having skipped over the Game Room games for Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone initially due to my moderate enthusiasm for vintage games, I took another look when rumors of how easy the cheevos were for them reached me. I was surprised to find the same 3 location based achievements on each of the 3 games. Fascinated I could up my achievement score simply by playing a game in a moving vehicle caused me to immediately buy all 3. With the help of carpool driver TomTom, I get pretty much all of them in one 28 mile drive home from work. As usual, the high from a recent cheevo earn quickly dissipated and I had to supplement it with some Mass Effect unlocks, but I can now say a full 180 of my cheevo score is thanks to playing a game in a moving car.
It is with a heavy heart I list my
trusty Ranger on Autotrader. We've been through alot since our
first meeting; including a prototype
sound system upgrade courtesy
Excelcier, getting
hitched, answering pressing
questions, and
various adventures including several 4x4 snow drifting events. My trusty friends 2 seat limit and Lisa forbidding Lila from even sitting in it have made it the prime candidate for vacating the future home of my Focus ST. Hopefully your future owner treats you
better than I did, which shouldn't be too hard.
With the successful funding of the
Detroit Robocop Statue I decided it was time to jump on board and equip my
motorcycle with the
OCP logo. I expect it will strike fear into the various drug lords and homeless derelicts I pass on my daily commute to the future home of Omni Consumer Products. I know Robocop now watches over me during my enjoyment of urban decay worse than could have been imagined even in 1987.
With my unwilling participation in Mass Effect 3 due to peer pressure (the cheevo per hour rating was unacceptably low on ME1 and ME2), I've found the CPH to be surprisingly favorable. Add in the new co-op multiplayer and I can give the game a quality rating. Lastnight team awesomesauce was in full effect and I'm well on my way to the "Veteran" achievement of killing 5000 "things" or roughly the population of Glendive, Montana
Having installed a
Motorola Signal Booster several years ago to help with my analog cable, I subsequently sold it when I
switched to OTA HD. Now that I'm
back on cable, I noticed my signal was
a bit low when compared to the
recommended levels. After cutting into my wall in an attempt to route a shorter cable I gave up and ordered the very same booster once again with
great success. The signal shot up 14.4 dBmV with the signal to noise also improving. I'm now well within the recommended signal strength and more importantly I've got a booster sucking power 24/7 to make up for crappy Brighthouse.
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Last week, with the pending Nokia Lumia 900 launch looming, I conned Lisa into upgrading her AT&T feature (dumb) phone to my precious. Verizon still has no other options for Windows Phones so I must live my dreams through Lisa's account. It arrived today and I of course benchmarked my army of Windows Phones immediately. Lisa has been using the Focus Flash as her secondary phone for several months now, refusing to embrace the smartphone era fully. I could see the social apps sucking her resistance away and knew it was time to strike, but I stopped short of using mind games to get her to choose the Focus as her new phone. In the end, the luscious 4.3" AMOLED screen that dazzled me from day one is what put her off of it, preferring the smaller form factor. Overjoyed, I hugged my new Nokia and drifted off to sleep dreaming of skipping through meadows holding hands with my new friend.
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