A lyric from my song Sunset. Which can be interpreted as losing someone and how it won't hurt forever, but it was written from the idea of losing a piece of yourself, then realizing you can always put something a little better in its place to grow as a person. A lot of my songs can be read different ways depending on what you're going through and/or what your experiences are, those are the songs I tend to appreciate the most since my musical tastes flux with my mood.
My last post was really negative and emotional. I was tempted to delete it, but it's just as valid as any other posts. Didn't help I'm all hormonal and shit. I used to NEVER get hormonal, but it's happened every month for the past 5-6 months. Whatever.
Read this, you will need to have a NY Times account, but it's free and my next post will be about this article. Would have been this post, but I got distracted. NY Times article on Asperger's
I spent yesterday away from just about everything. Email, IM, myspace, blogs, twitter...I needed to disconnect for a bit. I thought I was going to spend yesterday all moping and shit, but I had a fucking fantastic and fun day.
After French class, which was less stressful than usual, I was walking to take the bus back across town to go home. Some song came on my headphones, I didn't catch the artist or the name of it because my phone was in my backpack, but it made me walk a little faster, with a smile and my head up, and almost felt like a weird movie scene. So I started feeling better then. Got back to the transit center and got to my car, it was a BEAUTIFUL sunny day, not too warm or too cool. Kinda strange for November in the mountains, but I'll take it, considering we've had highs in the 40s or 50s lately.
So, being a nice day, I put the top down on my car, rolled down all my windows, and went to Sonic to get a strawberry limeade. My mood skyrocketed about right then, I mean it's really hard to be upset when you're driving around in a convertible on a nice day while sipping a limeade.
I was listening to some songs that make me smile and I had my music up, and I'd just like to say the people who were stuck in gridlock by me at the light who started singing Oasis' Wonderwall along with myself and the CD are FUCKING AWESOME. Those couple of minutes connecting to another random human being over music really helped make my day. But things still get better.
I've had a bunch of problems with my Q9M, and I wandered over to the Verizon Wireless store to check out the two droid phones released yesterday, Droid and Droid Eris. The Droid Eris sucks even more in person than on paper, which kinda makes me sad for a phone with the best name ever. There were so many people there, I had to wait to play with the Motorola Droid.
WOW. Just holy fucking wow. It is MORE awesome in person than on paper and I was blown away. I've had my eye on it ever since the LG BL40 got scrapped and I've been keeping a real close eye on any news about the Droid I could find. Even after all I'd read about it, getting to actually test it out blew my mind. I'm a bit (A LOT) of a techie, so I love new gadgets. I have a particular fondness for cell phones (Verizon only though, fuck everyone else) and laptops. The Droid had been so hyped, I was really worried it would be a let down. Glad I was REALLY REALLY wrong.
So I left the Verizon store with my new Droid. :) (Come on, you knew I was going to grab one.) My Q9M is currently in a drawer, I kinda want to set it on fire. I feel the same way about my Dell laptop too because of all the shit it has and is giving me. Anyways, I'm thrilled as all hell with my phone, I can't leave it alone. The 5 mp camera is bad ass, trust I'll be taking pics and loading them here since I always have my phone on me. I didn't do it so much on the Q cause the camera sucked. The fact I can watch Youtube videos on it is going to make the damn thing a wonderful source of entertainment. It also has wifi and since my wireless at home is connected to fios...ohhhhhh boy. Shit's ridiculous. Plus I just got my brand new headphones...man. I'm in tech heaven. I'm so stupidly happy I'm constantly smiling.
It gets better AGAIN. So the Android market has a bunch of apps, some cost, some don't. there's a free one called CardioTrainer. Basically, it records your speed, it's a pedometer, records times, uploads your stats to a website...it can also be used as a weight loss trainer, tells you how much you'd have to eat or not eat to lose whatever amount of weight you input, records your workouts and tells you calories burned...it's really awesome. So, I'm going to use said app for my marathon training, and I can keep good track of my progress. Oh, there's also the GPS, the phone itself has GPS, but this app really takes advantage of it to let you know distance, how much further you'd have to run at your current pace to burn whatever calories...it's ridiculous. The GPS is ridiculous by itself.
Oh, you can google search by voice. I can say nearby pizza places, gives me a list and if I click on it, I get directions. You can voice search the phone for an app, menu, music, whatever, but you can also search the internet just like using google. Or search for nearby locations. I was voice searching youtube too last night. Though, it got it wrong once because I was a few feet away...my search for Oasis came up as "racist gay". Which was pretty entertaining and I was laughing my ass off for a while about it. I'm giggling about it right now.
This phone is fucking awesome, nothing to help you get over someone and/or yourself like a new gadget. Heehee. This is the new love in my life. It doesn't lie, argue, or piss me off and it always stays with me. :P A bit of a tongue in cheek comment, but there's a sparkle of truth there. I really do love this phone.
I'm notorious for naming things. My Dell is named "The Hell", my netbook is named Ale.Xandros because I customized a version of Xandros Linux more for my tastes, and my Q9M was named Quits after 9 Minutes. I've mentioned the name I'd like for my Droid, and that's exactly what it is named.
Everyone, meet Alexandroid (Click on the pics for larger versions.):
As you can see, it is a touchscreen, but also has a keyboard. You can use any combination of the two to do stuff. Or give it voice commands. It can also write text messages/emails from what you say, speech to text. I'm not sure if there's a separate app for that, still exploring. :)
The screen adjusts its orientation depending on how the phone is oriented, and yes I AM listening to Part Of The Queue! Bite me! :P
Comes with a 16 gig micro-sd hc memory card. My Q9M had a 2 gig I would load with music to listen to all day. 8 times as much stuff. Hell yes.
I love this sound:
http://media.gdgt.com/etc/droid-alert.wav Everytime I get a text or email, I hear this. Teehee.
I'm in love <3
~A.
P.S. I took the pics with my digicam only because it's hard to have something take a pic of itself. However, I loaded the pics onto Alexandroid, and this post was created entirely on Alexandroid. :)
