Peter Mulvey concert

 Posted by (Visited 7423 times)  Music
Jun 172006
 

The Knuckleball SuiteLast night we went to a concert. This is unusual, because we haven’t gone to a concert since we lived in Austin. It’s been a few years. Between the move to San Diego, which seems to mostly lack a music scene of the sort we find comfortable, and the age of the kids (e.g., not concert-friendly), we have had to stay out of it.

But last week I noticed that Acoustic Music San Diego actually says on their site that they encourage kids attending. So off we went, with David’s Gameboy in tow in case he got bored. We did end up needing it, as he played Pokemon through much of the show; but he also got Peter to sign it, because he said “he plays good music.” Peter misidentified it as a PlayStation — alas, folksingers are not always up on the latest technologies.

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This happened to me

 Posted by (Visited 7734 times)  Misc
Jun 162006
 

Well, some of it, anyway, yesterday at the San Jose airport. I have T-Mobile for my phone, and the Total Internet Package. Only I couldn’t log in at the HotSpot at the airport, and none of the accessible website pages gave me an answer as to what my login should be. The one for my.t-mobile.com didn’t work.

Fortunately, today Google found the answer here, and I am going to reproduce it just so that anyone else stuck can learn it too.

She instantly shoots back the answer to the question I’ve been looking for almost 10 days for : Username is your 10 digit phone number, default password is the last 4 digits of your social security number. YES!!! That’s it. It works. So simple, I have to wonder why no one else in the company was able to understand my question, let alone answer it.

More recent reads

 Posted by (Visited 11274 times)  Reading
Jun 142006
 

I’ve noticed that I don’t read nearly as much science-fiction as I do fantasy, and much of the fantasy I read is not the giant endless series of hack n slash adventures. I am many volumes behind on the George R. R. Martin books, for example, and I have completely given up on the Robert Jordan ones. I often enjoy urban fantasy, stuff that draws from mythology, and stuff that crosses over a bit into magical realism.

So a lot of the recent books read are going to fall into that category, along with a few other oddballs from here and there. There’s also one massive swath of reading of one author.

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