A long week. I finally got a part refund on this phone, ordered a replacement housing. An odd thing was, the seller did not do a factory reset on the phone before sending it. It had old text messages, accidental voice recordings, full address book, months of appointments in the calendar. I didn't find out about the reset option until I broke the built-in web browser and wondered what to do about that.
The violin sold for $417 minus $30 in fees, minus $30 in shipping. Someone offered to pay $420 early on - a price I had offered as a 'Buy it now' option, but the ebay system required waiting until the end or cancelling the auction against policy. The week-long auction stayed under $155 until the last minutes. Apparently and understandably there are moves toward having the fixed-price option available longer, or as the only option. Currently with most auctions Buy It Now disappears with the first bid, however low that might be.
Finances: when I get below $2000, I start to sweat a bit more about money. Thanks to the violin sale, assuming the buyer is happy with it, I should be good for a while longer.
Current deadline to leave the city again: Friday, June 20.
Tech: this phone can tether - my laptop can get internet through this - att prepaid$20 unlimited internet for a month.
I switched to bloglines for some feeds. I deleted many feeds from G reader - nearly all, except my own. No way to add or delete feeds easily from G reader using this device. Bloglines is more mobile friendly perhaps - and lets you have unlimited email addresses to turn any email list into a feed.
I had too many feeds and would mindlessly, endlessly read through them.
Browsers, email: many options on this phone, but except for sending email, doing everything through the web using Opera Mini seems the best. OM may load pages slower at first, but it can quickly go back - while every other browser needs a reload. OM is awesome in many ways, and better than the opera mobile you'd have to register eventually.
GPS/LBS: This phone does not have GPS, but with a new google maps app, you can get your location within 1200 meters (at least where I am now), map view, satellite view, no topo lines yet. It is amazingly fast to scroll the full-screen-sized map around.
Email: using Gmail IMAP access, you can maintain Gmail folders on the phone. But slow. Better just to use it for composing and sending.
Typing: Will I exacerbate RSI by typing on this? I have to press somewhat hard on the keys. Would be nice, and quicker, just to touch them.
It is very nice to have the option of using an always-on portable net connection.
Power consumption: still testing. Have to leave phone always on because slow to boot. But easy to set offline or on. So far it seems like it will work fine with the solar charger & good to have a limit to endless browsing.
no camera -
Ebooks: no replacement for the old grayscale Clie yet - that is still easier on eyes to read (by turning the backlight off & using external light), and uses less power. But the free Mobipocket reader can read straight html ebooks. So I can download new reading with this (at least if they are zipped). Adding stuff to the Clie needs a PC.
Cut and Paste: this phone has it, many others don't.
By going with this phone, not the blackjack, I avoid microsoft, though I hear some say the BJ is way better. But there are less things to fiddle with here. & while some BJs went for less than $100, more of these do.
I'd like to not buy another until Android phones are out, with paper-like, front-lit displays. If I get a used windows mobile phone then, well, at least I got to explore this too.
For blogging, though, more people might like to follow this if I could post photos from the forest.
What else besides the phone (never used as a phone)? (--except to manage account. You can do free voice chat on newer models if you have unlimited data, by the way.)
WHAT ELSE BESIDES THE PHONE?
All bamboo and cane is down, and neighbors who wanted it took it away!
I met a guy who grows tons of sunflowers out of a roundup-fried yard and makes card games about rabbits. The game has so many fans, he's got his own wikipedia page. A non-collectible game. (Enough info to find the page? I think so.) We went on a walk around the hood yesterday. Tomorrow maybe chess in the park or on the Mary Kay lady's glass treestump-inlaid front yard chessboard. May get Laurie to help. He's planted trees too, mulberry among them. And mulberries are in season! Check your neighborhood trees. My last tweet: apricots, not nectarines.
My leisurely life: I only actually make forward physical leaving progress every other day. The other day I exercise visualize meditate browse web eat. Today was that day. I stay and speak be with pool friends. Today met Brad in chronic pain from 1992 or so car crash. Seeing him you would not guess. Suicide level. But has year old daughter. Two massive Samoans, one diabetic? cared for by younger other. Huge tall huge, but friendly, shy and not so much english. And Art told me about a WIE.org essay - something (not) like 'resonation awakening' ["the resonance of awakening"]- he was telling me about cohen and wilber!
Now with the garden here, I may actually start some sweet potato vines to plant as ground cover. In my neglect-the-garden experiment, sweet potatoes have done well. Turnips and established chard and perennial lima, too.
But about sewing. Violin sold, equipment procured, bamboo down, there's little more besides the sewing (and comfort) to keep me here. And even that could be portable. So tomorrow I expect to begin. Jardine sold to me when he said, ~ ". . . too busy watching tv or browsing the Internet to sew . . . you could be making or preparing for something worthwhile."
We'll see. I love being lighter and lighter. Were I to die or disappear (no immediate plans), there is less and less anyone would have to do to pick up after me. No mark on the world. Or JIT (just in time)? But a greater freedom to be still with self, with others?
I hope I manage to sew. Things seem to be ever more wonderfully odd. My laziness, procrast (for tomorrow) ination, near lack of industrious function - either for earthcare or economic grubbing 'should' bite me. Will it? (Child of privilege, but only because I chose to/had to stop to live within the vast room that is the existing privilege ? I am unbearably lucky, but only because I seek so little and all that disturbs leaves on its own time? What to make of the non-manic joy? I am not in chonic pain and I can be. Brad smiles.)
( off-trail the room is vast. Off road, off city, off desire, off compulsion , at the edge of all accepted . And I am made of and with the broad currents too !)
Even I think I do not function well. I go to the forest as a way to limit the absolutely useless compulsions.
It all may be adding up though. Slowly a functioning being of some sort is emerging?
Jardine functioning?
Brad functioning?
Etc.
No direction here, my friends, but I've had more engagement composing now than in a long time. All that compares recently has been stillness and sensing on the days such as this one.
Peace,
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