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i don’t own an iphone. blackberry is my thing. however. my boss does. he has been trying to figure out a way to hook it up in his car to make it hands free, and play tunes through the stereo. a while ago, i bought michele a motorola t505 bluetooth adapter. never even noticed that it was capable of playing music through it, so imagine my surprise when i went searching for a solution to his problem and found out that what i owned should do what he wants to do?!?!

so. today i took it to work so he (we) could try it out. an important option was the ability to also play xm radio through it since he has a subscription to the iphone version. well. let me tell you. it works like a charm. pair the phone to the t505. turn um on. go to xm. start the station. tune the radio. all is good! pretty neat if you ask me!

totally hooked on it. i like it more than anything i have tried. there is a great article on lifehacker about it. i don’t know that i agree with their cons. i don’t actually care if i can port a number. i have been using it since it was grand central, and just give everyone my gv number and tell them to use that. so far, no problems. people use it and they get a hold of me. it works. and very well.

jonathan made it to the high level by achieving this award. way to go jon!

well. the dogs went out and something caught their interest. it was a baby robin that had fallen out of it’s nest. i remember hearing somewhere, that human scent is bad and the parents will avoid the bird, so after michele scouted around and found me a shovel, i grabbed the step ladder and tried to place the baby back in the nest. it wasn’t without its problems. he didn’t like the ride up, and the father was not overly happy with me either. but after 2 attempts, he made it back there. later, we checked and the parents were still taking care of the little fella (or fellette). alls well that ends well.

and.

as the header picture above shows, there is a duck. that duck was in the pool. yep. in my pool. silly girl. she’s gone now, but i bet she comes back.

kids are in arizona, and tomorrow michele will be headed there too! just me and dad at the house. will be kind of quiet. not really looking forward to it much. guess i need the distractions.

with my wife’s toe being broken, i have relegated myself to my office, and into my reclining office chair. tonight, after one of the greatest 24 seasons came to an end, i said good night to my far better half and headed down with the doggies to the temporary bedroom. quick check of email, and off i was to go. stopping, only for a second on itunes, i snapped up this album.

it’s great! don’t waste time. go get it!

shopping today. i made a decision to try out the dominicks, again. bad move. we have been normally shopping back at the walmart store. brands sometimes are a problem. but the prices are good.

heading into dominicks, jon and i started our chore. it didn’t take long to determine that the prices, were, well, higher. we were shopping with coupons, and a limited list. but even so, when everything is all said and done, the money i svaed would have been better served at the walmart. see the prices were high enough that i lost the coupon savings against walmart. bummer. and here is an observation. the shelves were no where near as full of options and choices as they had been before. nor wee there as many people there, as i remember. anyway. lesson learned. back to the walmart.

driving while texting is dangerous. so is eating a big mac. applying makeup. driving with kids. talking on the phone. driving into the sun. now i know that these are all dangerous things. or can be. but. they are easily solved by folks just using something that most all of us have. common sense. i only say this because i have found that having a blackberry makes it really really hard to sms while driving. but. i think that the lady in front of me today, finishing her make-up work, at speed, was much more dangerous. common sense people. it’s just that simple. no laws. no other discussion. just use common sense.

i watched a couple reality shows this last season. survivor was one of the best ever, and the more deserving person won. way to go jt!

on amazing race, there were these 2 girls. both ex-cheerleaders and one if not both, were probably the rudest people that i have ever seen. it really strikes me that people in foreign lands believe that we are rude, based on folks like these two. they were hideous. i was so glad that they didn’t win the cash.

my wife’s taking time off from school, as her foot is in pain, and the doctor said to stay off of it. don’t know for how long, but, she deserves the rest. well, except for homework.

i’m tired and sick. all started on thursday. and though the fever is gone, it’s hard to keep going all day… and keep the house going. much easier when it is the both of us. i forget sometimes, just how much my better half does. has made me a little cranky.

i still think that our president is doing a fine job, with what he was left with. honestly, i don’t understand why anyone would want the job. brian will understand this. i would rather do that job that he found online than be president. safer. less trouble.

really. she’s not. however, in her haste to get something done, she jammed her foot into a curb at a gas station, and took a fall. in the fray, she also put a hole in her knee, and wasted a pair of slacks. after a day, her toe had morphed into something far more colorful. calling the doctors office, they suggested she come on in. the after hours care place didn’t have their x-ray room open so we headed to edwards. there, after a couple hours waiting, an x-ray revealed that indeed, there was a fracture of the large, or big toe. as seen below

the whole hospital thing is pretty cool. since she now has to go to an orthopedist, we received a disk containing the x-rays, which allowed me to bring this shot to you. it really is cool to see technology used. just not enjoying the idea of how much those 3 pictures are going to cost, insurance or not.

the kids and i will be the hand maidens for the weekend, serving her needs, hand and foot, as it were.