{"id":283,"date":"2008-07-18T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2010-08-22T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T23:48:10","slug":"when-you-walk-down-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/when-you-walk-down-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"when you walk down the street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Summer Fridays. The days I’ve scheduled for publication-related activities. Last week I had a good workday, but today I am far less motivated. I’m still not 100% recovered from my surprisingly evil head cold. And I feel like I didn’t get enough done this week, what with the 2 sick days. I guess I did finish two books while convalescing (one of which had been moldering on a shelf, half-read, since the spring!). But I’d like to have gotten more done at work, run some errands, cleared out some Coop work, etc.<\/p>\n

(Yes, I know it’s not healthy to regret time lost to illness. I’m working on it.)<\/p>\n

So, today I would much rather be doing non-publication-related things. But there’s not an infinite number of Summer Fridays, so instead I’ve planned procrastination until 10am (hence this post!) and work after that.<\/p>\n

(So here’s the real post now, that was all just explanatory blathering that you’re free to ignore. Oops, too late.)<\/p>\n

Two shiny new gadgets arrived in our house this week.<\/p>\n

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I know, I know, I’ve claimed at least<\/a> twice<\/a> that I would not be getting one. BUT, someone in the house joined the iphone developer’s program and needed a testing platform. Also, our old cellphones were really bad, practically unusable, and since our contract was up we would have needed to pay for new phones AND get a more expensive contract anyway since they no longer offer our old plan. And it’s not fair for just ONE person in the house to have an iphone, now, is it?<\/p>\n

Admittedly, it still makes me a bit nervous to carry it around. I did bring my old ipod shuffle to work the other day because it seemed conspicuous to be listening to music on the iphone in the subway. But I have to admit that it’s pretty sweet. I stitched up a quickie cozy for it out of some felt I had lying around, but I’ve plans to sew a real case sometime soon. And the headphones fit perfectly into the little knitted cozy that Anne<\/a> made for me ages ago (thanks Anne!).<\/p>\n

I haven’t paid for any software for it yet, but I downloaded a free Othello, because I am a nerd. Now if someone could just make a (GOOD!) listmaking app and Tesserae<\/a>, I’ll be all set!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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