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Wednesday 23
Jun. 24th, 2010 12:13 amWednesday 23- I did my stretches.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 68 and 101 degrees, light breeze, humidity around 9 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Thursday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. Light wind becoming south southwest between 11 and 14 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 68. West wind 14 to 17 mph decreasing to between 5 and 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.”
I had to wait around the house for UPS to deliver my Kindle 2 E-reader. It finally arrived around 2pm and I started reading the manual. I wanted to see if I could go online with it to get my email. After fiddling around trying to get my password entered correctly with the small keyboard, I logged into my Gmail account and read and sent emails. It is slow; about as slow as dialup, but useable in a pinch. I then went to my CopperMountainMesa.com Website and it loaded correctly and the pictures on the site were viewable. On both the email and website the navigation was somewhat awkward but I believe that’s because I’m not used to the keyboard; in time I’ll have that down. I went to the Kindle site at Amazon to find free books. The Kindle was already setup with my Amazon account and I didn’t have to do anything. I found that it was difficult to find the section for free books and I ended up going online with my computer to get the titles I wanted, and then enter them into the Kindle books search on the Amazon Kindle site. I downloaded three free Star Wars ebooks in minutes and without any hassles. Tomorrow I’ll start reading an ebook. All in all I found that the Kindle 2 is all that I expected; and getting my email and the web, even being slow as it is, was a big plus!
I canceled my cell phone account with Sprint and will use Skype for now on to make long distance calls to landline phones and cell phones. At $30 a year for Skype vs. $32 a month for Sprint I’ll save big bucks. I still have a pay as you go cell phone from T-Mobile for emergencies.
I walked down to Ginger’s to see Dakota her son who is staying there for a few days. We walked back to my house where we sat and yapped for a spell. Ginger had called and left a message, I called her back using Skype on the Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu. She came over with the rest of her family and we hung around outside for a few hours. It was kind of nice having her kids and dogs running around my place!
I watched "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996) on Hulu.com. It's one of my favorite Star Trek movies!
I did my stretches. I practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 68 and 101 degrees, light breeze, humidity around 9 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Thursday: Sunny and hot, with a high near 98. Light wind becoming south southwest between 11 and 14 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 68. West wind 14 to 17 mph decreasing to between 5 and 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.”
I had to wait around the house for UPS to deliver my Kindle 2 E-reader. It finally arrived around 2pm and I started reading the manual. I wanted to see if I could go online with it to get my email. After fiddling around trying to get my password entered correctly with the small keyboard, I logged into my Gmail account and read and sent emails. It is slow; about as slow as dialup, but useable in a pinch. I then went to my CopperMountainMesa.com Website and it loaded correctly and the pictures on the site were viewable. On both the email and website the navigation was somewhat awkward but I believe that’s because I’m not used to the keyboard; in time I’ll have that down. I went to the Kindle site at Amazon to find free books. The Kindle was already setup with my Amazon account and I didn’t have to do anything. I found that it was difficult to find the section for free books and I ended up going online with my computer to get the titles I wanted, and then enter them into the Kindle books search on the Amazon Kindle site. I downloaded three free Star Wars ebooks in minutes and without any hassles. Tomorrow I’ll start reading an ebook. All in all I found that the Kindle 2 is all that I expected; and getting my email and the web, even being slow as it is, was a big plus!
I canceled my cell phone account with Sprint and will use Skype for now on to make long distance calls to landline phones and cell phones. At $30 a year for Skype vs. $32 a month for Sprint I’ll save big bucks. I still have a pay as you go cell phone from T-Mobile for emergencies.
I walked down to Ginger’s to see Dakota her son who is staying there for a few days. We walked back to my house where we sat and yapped for a spell. Ginger had called and left a message, I called her back using Skype on the Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu. She came over with the rest of her family and we hung around outside for a few hours. It was kind of nice having her kids and dogs running around my place!
I watched "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996) on Hulu.com. It's one of my favorite Star Trek movies!
I did my stretches. I practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.
