Here I Am

Since my last post, a lot has gone on, of course. I've been terrible about updating; been so busy and haven't really had the energy...

The weekend after I last posted, on Saturday, the 19th, Patrick rented a limo and Robert and he picked Shane and I up at Justin's house. We were also with two other people who went home after the first stop. We drove around, listened to music, oh, and drank. A lot... We went to Z109, but it had apparently been closed down. So we went to Grand Central, then Alibi, and then we went to the Male Room. I barely remember being at the Male Room at all. It was a blast though. I had such a great time. The only bad thing that happened was that I broke my digital camera...

On Sunday I slept. On Monday, I felt sooo tired, when I came home from work, I slept some more. lol. On Thursday I went to Alibi on a date. I went out with a guy I had started talking to online. Meeting him in person, I realized that I had actually seen him out before and thought he was really cute, but was too shy to talk to him.

On Friday evening, Austin convinced me to come pick him up and take him out. I really didn't feel like going out, spending money, etc. Mostly I was just tired and lazy, didn't feel like leaving the house. So I went to pick him up. We had a drink at Grand Central, then drove to Alibi. Kevin called and said he was there while we were on our way. When we got there, he was nowhere to be seen, which was kind of strange. lol

After Alibi, we headed over to Tampa. I had called to see what Mark was up to and he said that he was at Baxter's. He met us at Cityside. Cityside was pretty dead. We were only there for a brief time. Robert was on his way home from a dance competition in Naples. We had talked about possibly hanging out when he got in.

Robert called around 3 to say that he was tired after all, and was just gonna go home, but that we'd have to hang out later on in the weekend. I said goodbye to Mark and his friend and took Austin home, then drove all the way back to my house and went to sleep. I woke up the next morning with missed calls from Robert and a text message saying he had something to tell me...

Next week I'll begin the process of looking for a new car. I've been thinking about what I want in a car, or some models that I think I would like.

	Hyundai Tiburon
	Honda Civic
	Toyota Solara
	Volkswagon Passat
	Nissan Maxima

So, I've had my new phone for a couple weeks now. I'm completely enamored by it.

For the most part, it does everything I want it to smoothly. The internet runs quickly and the chat program I downloaded works really well. My favorite feature of Agile Messenger is that you can use it to take a picture and send it to one of your online buddies. Or you can send a file from the phone's memory.

Memory is a slight issue though. I haven't yet received a 2GB miniSD card that I ordered from ebay. If you plan on installing games, videos, music, etc., plan on upgrading memory. I got a pretty good deal on the memory card. After conversion to GBP I believe it was around 60 USD. Not bad at all for a chip that's not even 1" x 1" and holds 2GB.

I had to, unfortunately, perform a hard reset on my device several days ago. While installing a program, something went wrong. Horribly wrong... My phone would no longer sync with any PC, nor would it let me install or remove any programs using Microsoft ActiveSync.

Resetting my phone to factory settings fixed the problem when nothing else would. Fortunately, everything was backed up... Except for my contacts. Yes, they were on the SIM card, but SIM cards only hold name/number combinations, not multiple phone numbers for contacts (home, work, cell, etc.), email addresses, pictures, etc. So I sent part of my contacts to myself via email as vcards (.vcf). This preserved everything except for the user picture.

I think in the future I'm going to export my contacts as vcards and store them in my ipod's contacts folder. I don't yet know of a program that will mass export an entire address book. It's kind of a pain to do these individually...

Also, I later found that on the HTC Wizard phone, the contacts, calendars, notes and tasks are stored in a file on the root of the file system called pim.vol. So copying that file before performing a hard reset would theoretically save your contact information. You need to rename the pim.vol file before you are able to move it. For some reason it allows you to rename it but not copy it from the phone to the PC...

Shit! I haven't posted in forever...

I've been busy lately, I suppose that's as good an excuse as any. I'm saving up for a new car, a trip to Pennsylvania... Hanging out with friends... Yeah, lots of exciting stuff.

Anyways, some friends of mine moved to Clearwater from Ohio 2 weeks ago. Well, I only knew Austin, but his roommates are cool. Shane and I have been spending a lot of time down there. 2 weekends ago we took them to Flirt. Flirt was a good time, but the night ended kinda badly... Kevin will be coming back this weekend, I'm kind of excited to see him again.

Other than the night going to Flirt, I really haven't done too much, I'm trying to be extremely frugal... I don't like it one bit. But I need to stop spending so much money! Joe and I did go to the outlet mall once last weekend, and I managed to only buy one item, a belt from Banana Republic.

Yesterday I had tickets for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays v. Toronto Blue Jays game. Having never been to a baseball game, I was pretty excited to go. Though I didn't know a thing about baseball, I figured it out pretty quick.

Last night I went to Georgie's Alibi, and met Robert there. He was with a friend, Patrick, who I'd met before, but couldn't remember exactly where... I had a really good time hanging out at Alibi. I hardly ever go there on Thursdays anymore, but I'm glad I did last night. They played some really good music, stuff I've never heard before.