I got my phone last Thursday. Overall, I'm very pleased with the phone. The build quality is excellent, the hardware design is great, and the android OS is, given its relatively young age, very well developed. The only thing that I really wish that it had is a pdf viewer...but that will probably come in time. Having my email with me, as well as google maps (complete with gps support) are both very reassuring.
My running has bbeen going fairly steadily. I have been running 2 miles consistently under 15 minutes for a couple weeks now, I suppose. I'm not losing weight as fast as I had been; it is almost like I have levelled out...but that's not too bad. I'm just a bit shy of the initial goal of 175 that I had set, and it might still happen. I have definitely lost a pretty noticable amount of fat so far, so that is both good and encouraging.
Guitar stuff is progressing...albeit incredibly slowly...necks don't require a lot of jigs, but the ones that are required can be really unforgiving...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
You can't find nothing at all if there was nothing there all along
This title would have been more applicable to the previous post... oh well.
I made a better neck template for my next neck attempts. The first turned out okay, but was only meant to be a rough draft and ensure I have the steps in the most logical order. The next couple tries will be to fine-tune the individual steps and, ideally, I'll have a decent pine neck out of it all. I've also decided to go with the Stratocaster style curved neck pocket as opposed to the telecaster flat neck pocket. This is more difficult/ambitious, but I think I should be able to manage. One thing I'm a bit worried about is getting the neck to be perfectly symmetrical. My neck template isn't 100% symmetrical, but it's damn close. I've cut a pretty snug fitting neck pocket template, so I think I'm happy (for now).
I got my tax refund, and I'm going to use part of it to pay for the G1 phone. There is supposed to be a refresh of the phone in about 6 months, but I think the new design looks kind of dumb. Plus, I'm not certain about the availability of a developer version (read: totally unlocked, hardware and software). There is another phone coming to t-mobile that doesn't have a physical keyboard, but that's a lot of the reason I would never get an iPhone.
I'm also considering a oscillating spindle/edge sander. I'd need a shopvac for all the dust, though, because collecting it as it is generated is much easier than after.
I made a better neck template for my next neck attempts. The first turned out okay, but was only meant to be a rough draft and ensure I have the steps in the most logical order. The next couple tries will be to fine-tune the individual steps and, ideally, I'll have a decent pine neck out of it all. I've also decided to go with the Stratocaster style curved neck pocket as opposed to the telecaster flat neck pocket. This is more difficult/ambitious, but I think I should be able to manage. One thing I'm a bit worried about is getting the neck to be perfectly symmetrical. My neck template isn't 100% symmetrical, but it's damn close. I've cut a pretty snug fitting neck pocket template, so I think I'm happy (for now).
I got my tax refund, and I'm going to use part of it to pay for the G1 phone. There is supposed to be a refresh of the phone in about 6 months, but I think the new design looks kind of dumb. Plus, I'm not certain about the availability of a developer version (read: totally unlocked, hardware and software). There is another phone coming to t-mobile that doesn't have a physical keyboard, but that's a lot of the reason I would never get an iPhone.
I'm also considering a oscillating spindle/edge sander. I'd need a shopvac for all the dust, though, because collecting it as it is generated is much easier than after.
I am nothing of a builder
This entry is comprised of lots of complaining. Sorry.
Trip to Katy was balls. We drove to San Antonio to pick up a bunch of my brother's stuff first. That wasn't so bad. The drive there was about 1.5 hours, and it went by pretty quickly. We helped my brother get all his stuff into the back of my truck and left. That took about an hour or so. Then, we left for Katy. This drive is boring. I-10 is boring and there isn't shit to look at. We had a decent time, though, listening to music/talking/singing/whatever.
When we got to my parents' house, though, the crazy started. First, the driveway was full of all sorts of shit. We unloaded my truck and put it next to all of the shit. Then we looked through the three boxes of my stuff that was apparently not put into the trailer that got stolen. The boxes were: 1 box of socks, one box with a bunch of trophies I won when I was a kid, and a puppet, along with some assorted things. Of all the stuff I left behind when I moved out of my parents' house, the only things I wound up keeping were a set of french curves, some plastic triangles, a men's restroom sign I apparently stole at some point. There were also two 15W guitar amplifiers that seem to have magically appeared at the house; I didn't even own a guitar before I moved out...I had a bass and a bass amp, but those aren't in Katy.
The cards Erin and I hoped would be there are, apparently, yet another thing that were lost when the trailer got stolen. This is frustrating mostly due to the fact that 1) the cards and the books were probably my most prized possessions, but they were put into a trailer for storage 2) the trailer is NOT any sort of good storage location for any kind of paper products 3) my mom told me about a week ago that my closet was still largely as I left it when, in fact, it was 100% NOT the way I left it 4) my mom had LOADS of other crap she could have put into the trailer that wouldn't be susceptible to the elements (I found a box full of glass sculptures of weird shit like reclining cartoon frogs, for instance) 5) my mom had NO idea where anything of mine was placed. In addition to those three boxes, I had to look through a bunch of crap in the attic, my brother's closet, under my brother's bed, in the laundry room, in my parents' closet, and the garage. She's STILL not even sure if I looked through everything...there could still be other boxes...which, I guess, leaves me without closure.
Probably the only nice part about going to Katy was that we went to Raising Canes for lunch. I like that place.
Sunday, we walked to a store about 2 miles away and bought some cards. We should be able to start playing more interesting games fairly soon.
I wasn't feeling well yesterday (the worst headache of my life) and went home early. I slept for a while and felt better.
Trip to Katy was balls. We drove to San Antonio to pick up a bunch of my brother's stuff first. That wasn't so bad. The drive there was about 1.5 hours, and it went by pretty quickly. We helped my brother get all his stuff into the back of my truck and left. That took about an hour or so. Then, we left for Katy. This drive is boring. I-10 is boring and there isn't shit to look at. We had a decent time, though, listening to music/talking/singing/whatever.
When we got to my parents' house, though, the crazy started. First, the driveway was full of all sorts of shit. We unloaded my truck and put it next to all of the shit. Then we looked through the three boxes of my stuff that was apparently not put into the trailer that got stolen. The boxes were: 1 box of socks, one box with a bunch of trophies I won when I was a kid, and a puppet, along with some assorted things. Of all the stuff I left behind when I moved out of my parents' house, the only things I wound up keeping were a set of french curves, some plastic triangles, a men's restroom sign I apparently stole at some point. There were also two 15W guitar amplifiers that seem to have magically appeared at the house; I didn't even own a guitar before I moved out...I had a bass and a bass amp, but those aren't in Katy.
The cards Erin and I hoped would be there are, apparently, yet another thing that were lost when the trailer got stolen. This is frustrating mostly due to the fact that 1) the cards and the books were probably my most prized possessions, but they were put into a trailer for storage 2) the trailer is NOT any sort of good storage location for any kind of paper products 3) my mom told me about a week ago that my closet was still largely as I left it when, in fact, it was 100% NOT the way I left it 4) my mom had LOADS of other crap she could have put into the trailer that wouldn't be susceptible to the elements (I found a box full of glass sculptures of weird shit like reclining cartoon frogs, for instance) 5) my mom had NO idea where anything of mine was placed. In addition to those three boxes, I had to look through a bunch of crap in the attic, my brother's closet, under my brother's bed, in the laundry room, in my parents' closet, and the garage. She's STILL not even sure if I looked through everything...there could still be other boxes...which, I guess, leaves me without closure.
Probably the only nice part about going to Katy was that we went to Raising Canes for lunch. I like that place.
Sunday, we walked to a store about 2 miles away and bought some cards. We should be able to start playing more interesting games fairly soon.
I wasn't feeling well yesterday (the worst headache of my life) and went home early. I slept for a while and felt better.
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