Mixed bag

[mdlbear]

Colleen's TPN is getting more routine, but it's still nerve-wracking. My energy level is low, and even a walk this afternoon didn't help much. Working from home helps a lot, but my entire afternoon was burned up running errands. Mostly dealing with AT&T.

Last month's cell phone bill was astronomical, due to Colleen's being in the hospital. They couldn't fix that in the store -- it'll require a call to customer service. They could sell me a new phone to replace the ancient one that believes it has a headset attached.

The new phone is one of their cheapest: a Samsung SGH-a737 slider. I don't like the icon-based menu system as well as I liked the Nokia's text-based one, and it doesn't have a standard USB port or charge from USB. No headphone jack either -- you have to use bluetooth. It does have a micro-SD card, but no documentation on how to use it except with their own USB cable and Windows app. :-P

There are a couple of choices: I can take it back and trade up to something like a Motorola, or I can treat it as a stopgap until somebody -- probably Moto, since they've announced it -- comes out with an Android phone for AT&T and pass the Samsung on to Colleen.

I also signed up for fiber for TV and internet. A bit over $100/month for 100 channels of video and 10/1.5 Mb/sec networking. That's almost double my current download speed, and triple the upload (which is what I'm really after).

After that gets installed, early February, I'll cancel the old second line and its associated, ancient DSL, drop or vastly decrease the ISP service I'm getting from rahul.net (and which I haven't used for a year except for being too lazy to move my email), and then drop my newer DSL service from Sonic.net. I think it comes to a net gain of about $50/month.

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[sweetmusic-27.livejournal.com]

I find my micro-SD card really handy; the one I got came with an 'adapter' which is basically a dummy ordinary-size SD card with a hole in it, and I slot the micro in and put the whole shebang into my SD card-reader (I have a multi-card reader I got for cheap at the drugstore), and then I can pull it up just like any other drive and put things into/copy things from the folders (it has separate folders, preset, for audio, images, and other stuff like applications and data files you might want to store) - so maybe you could look into getting an adapter, 'cause I had no problem with not having any Micro-SD-specific application.

There is the pesky business of getting that eensyweensy thing out of and into my phone whenever I transfer files, but I got the hang of it.

[mdlbear]

I have a micro-SD reader that looks basically like the business end of a USB cable without the cable. I keep it in my pocket attached to my nail clippers.

The only question, really, is what the file layout on the card is supposed to look like -- Samsung doesn't document it in their manual.