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I finally got a new cell phone last week. I have been here for 2 years now, and still had my old cell with a twin cities number. I went ahead and changed the number so that it is local for people here to call me.

I wanted to let the battery die completely this week and it finally did today. Unfortunately I am at work and don’t have a charger for it here. So, this got me thinking about how nice it would be if the phone had a usb port and it could charge over the usb bus like my iRiver does. The next logical step in this progression would be for the phone to actually act like a usb storage device. Then it would be possible to download/upload pictures and any other data between the PC. I could see that being very handy. I guess the only problem with this would be that the phone company wouldn’t make their $0.25 per picture transfer, or whatever they charge, I haven’t transferred any yet.

You would think that the phone manufacturers would build phones like this, I can’t be the only person that wants something like this. I guess they are probably concerned that the providers wouldn’t buy the phones. I was just thinking that it would nice to have a phone that doesn’t suck.

I had to move the trip to Mexico back until the 7th. But, I will be down there for a week, from the 7th until the 14th, so there is a very good chance that we will be going to a soccer game. Probably the Rayados (stripes), they are actually just called Monterrey. There are 2 soccer teams in Monterrey. The other team is called the Tigres. The Tigres are the larger and probably more popular team. The Tigres are in the Copa Libertadores tournament this year.

I will be working quite a bit while I am down there, but I am looking forward to it. Myself and the lead developer for the company that we are working with need to go through the system as much as possible. We have a lot in common, both geeks, both like coding and doing a good job etc. etc. So, we will be working our asses off, eating tortas and tacos and drinking large amounts of caffeinated beverages, with few distractions. Should be a good time.

Last night I tried to edit my blogs index.html directly. When I looked at the blog today all of my changes were gone. I didn’t realize that you had to edit the template instead. And, you also need to rebuild the template after you save your edits to it before the changes will show up on your blog.

Editing the template is a pretty straightforward thing. There are some MT tags in there, but it is mostly just html with css.

I got the mt-static stuff to work finally. The stuff that you put into mt-static needs to be a web accessible path. I had

WRONG! DON’T DO THIS StaticWebPath /home/billy/public_html/mt-static

When it should have been

StaticWebPath http://www.billybryant.net/mt-static

Now, all of the icons and everything work. It looks pretty nice. The interface is much better withall of the buttons. All of the buttons work now also.

Woke up at 0200 again last night. I seem to do that at least once a week and it really messes up the week. I will be tired for the rest of the week now. When I finally did get back to sleep, I really had some wild dreams. I never got back to sleep totally, so they were those dreams where you are half awake and half asleep. But, I didn’t have much control over the dream unfortunately, it could have been fun.

Somehow I managed to get up at 0500 and work out. Doing squats at 0500 really sucks. But if I don’t do it in the morning, it will never happen.

Looks like I am going to Mexico again. I will probably be down there about a week this time. This will be my 3rd time in Monterrey. We usually stay at the Presidente’ hotel. It is very nice. I don’t feel like I have taken enough pictures when I have been down there the last 2 times, so I will try to rectify that on this trip. If things work out, we may be able to catch a soccer match. That would be so excellent.

Thinking about eating tortas and tacos is making me hungry already.

Another weekend went by in a flash. I was able to get a few things done this weekend. I finihsed the octagon table. I finally got the porch windows painted. I read a couple chapters out of David Allen’s Getting Things Done. It was really hot again. I should have taken a picture of the thermometer. It was ridiculous, like 105, and humid. I came back to the Mid-West to escape the heat of phoenix.

Back to work tomorrow. Bummer.

I finally finished the octagon table. It looks nice. I will try to get some pictures posted on here. I am new to movable type, so it may take a little while.

I seriously underestimated how long this would take. The project got off to a bad start because I didn’t have a planer or a mortising machine. Once things were off a little bit, it made evrything about 50% harder than it needed to be.

I finished it using Minwax Red Oak stain. I put 2 coats on it to make it a little darker. The problem is that the weather here in Iowa has been miserably hot and humid for about the last month. I was trying to let the table dry on the porch, but the humidity was not helping it at all. I finally moved it inside. It seems like it is starting to dry now.

The wife says that she likes it and probably wants another one. It may be a little while before that happens. I need to build a couch for the porch first.