Well that time has come again. That time of year where all I can think about is a little device that fits so nicely into my pocket. Yes, a cell phone. I have this issue with cell phones that most people would call crazy. I can’t stand to have a cell phone for more than a year. This is why I don’t use Verizon or Sprint anymore. Not only do their phones suck. You can’t just switch your phone any time you want. You have to go into the store argue with the sales rep and pay a huge amount of money for a phone, then have the IMEI number switched.

Now I’m not saying that the phones i buy are cheep. But when you buy from your provider they are only looking to secure new customers. And this is why they only give the discount to new contracts and charge a butt load amount to an existing one. So what I do is look around on ebay for a while and make a purchace there. You can get a phone that is normally $299.99 from your provider for a low cost of $250.00 and that includes shipping.

But its only a phone, people say to me. Yeah its a phone, but when you carry it around it gets scratched and banged up. Sometimes they even fall out of fasion. Yes I said fashion. If your going to use a cell phone you might as well make it so it matches your style.

So there are a couple of phones Im looking at. Really two. One is the famous Motorola V3 Razr. The other is also a Motorola but its a V635. I really like both but the V3 is starting to saturate the market and the V635 isn’t really in it yet. The thing that the V635 has over the V3 is it has a 1.3MP camera with flash and 8x digi zoom. But it lacks one thing that the V3 has, and that is damn good looks. Whichever phone I go with, Motorola or not, it must have bluetooth and a fast data connection. I can’t have nothing keeping me from listening to 97x on my drive home.

So my question to you my only reader. What kind of cell phone do you have. Let me know if you like it or if it sucks balls like my V551 does now. You want to know about horrible battery life, that has it.

Out of all the seasons Fall is the best. I love when the air turns cold and the leaves change to fiery reds and yellows. One of the best things is you don’t need a coat but would look good in one. Hooded sweat shirts become a normal clothing item and no one seems to mind.

The only problem with Fall is it leads to winter. Which, if you know me personally you would know i hate winter. I don’t mean I don’t like it but its cool. No, I loath it. I hate the white snow that falls from the sky. Blanketing the earth like a white shroud of death. I hate the ice that hangs off your house like some death spike waiting to fall on your head. I would rather spend a year in my house with no outside contact then to be around for winter. But, that is not possible so I have to deal with it.

But once the wretched snow is gone spring comes. With spring you get flowers and grass and warmer weather where you can wear your hoodie again. Spring leads to Summer and the whole thing repeats.

And this ends a crappy entry to my blog at lunch. I hope you enjoyed your wasted few minutes with me. Bye!

Well the upgrading to my iBook has come to a close. This saturday after what seemed like forever I received my hard drive. The reason it felt like forever is because I bought the drive on a Thursday and the person that sold it to me didn’t ship until a week later. Even after telling me that the drive would be shipped that saturday after I paid for it. I was quite upset about this when I got the email. But at least the person told me and didn’t leave me hanging.

One thing I have to say about upgrading you book to a larger HD is the pure knowing that you don’t have to pick and choose the stuff you keep on it. I went from a 20GB hard drive to a 60. Well the actual size is about 55.3, but still! So much room to play with now.

And what would would have made the day even better? Playing a couple rounds of Socom 3 online, thats what would have made the day better. But no! my router went down and will not power on. I plugged and unplugged it and no go. I tried a different power adapter and behold! it works! But the power adapter goes to my modem and not to the router so I can either have online for my ibook, or a network that goes no place. And what makes matters worse is that I cant even connect to the internet with my PS2, or anything else for that matter. The only thing I can connect with is my iBook. Not my iMac(which is weird), laptop, ps2, xbox. Nothing!

So in attempts to buy a power adapter I go to Radio Shack. This crap of a place has a whole wall of power adapters. But none are 5 Volts, 2 Amps. What the shit is that about! I thought Radio Shack had anything you needed like that. I guess they are to busy selling re-branded stereo equipment to care about the more obscure products out there.

So after being shot down at the good’ol Radio Crap I jumped online. I found the same wireless router that I already have on eBay for $2.29 with shipping just above $18. What a bargain! A new power adapter if they had it would have cost about the same thing. So now I just have to find another power cord and I can have my game machines connect wirelessly. sweet!

Today I tore into my iBook. I have been watching eBay for a few weeks looking for a new optical drive for my iBook. It came to me with only a CD-ROM and I really missed having a burner and DVD player. My old Compaq had both and I got really used to having it. So on ebay I found a CD-R-RW/DVD-Rom for a measly hundred bucks. Normally you cant get one on ebay no lower than one fifty. And at apple for a new one they want close to two hundred and fifty. So when I found this one I jumped on it quick.

So today I came to work and ripped right into it. You want to talk about scary. This isn’t like upgrading a tower where you can just take a door of and whammy it’s done. No, there is a few steps you have to do. first, take off the bottom case, then the shield, then the top case then the top shield. Then you have to remove the drive itself, change the mount bracket to the new and reverse process. You also have to keep all the screws in order because there are so many and they all are very, very similar.

After a good 2 hour tear down and rebuild I now have a new optical drive. I tested and made sure that the drive could burn cd’s and play DVDs and sure enough, it does. This isn’t for the faint of heart when it comes to upgrades and repairs. You can screw up your book and be hosed, so attempt at your own risk.

Next, upgrade the hard drive from a 20gb to a 60gb. And it looks like the airport cable antenna will need to be replaced. It is starting to fray at the connector.

No I’m not going to preach to you about my feelings about the war in iraq. Im going to tell you today about something much more important. Socom 3. Socom has got to be the best damn war game there is. I never really got into it before because I was a late comer to the world. When your a late comer to a online war game your pretty much a easy target. You don’t know the maps. You don’t know the little hiding places people can sit in wait at. It’s just harder for you because you just don’t know. Well Socom 3 is out and now the maps are new and everyone has to go thru the search and destroy ranks all the same now.

While playing this game you hear in your head mic your team mates. Now I’m a shy person when it comes to talking to people i can’t see. Figure that, I will chat a person up all day in the line at the grocery. But get me in a chat room or online gaming and I barely talk. Well regardless, Its a kick ass game that if your not playing you should. So keep an eye out for me. Im usually the guy laying on the ground dead.

Last night I would have to say I played some of the best game I have ever have. You get scored on how many kills you make and against how many deaths you have and if you do any stupid shit like kill a team mate or kill yourself with a grenade. Which, oddly enough i have done many times. Well last night i made 7 kills and only died 4 times. This means nothing because my team lost. But its the best I have done ever. And this only makes me want to keep playing.

I think I’m having Socom withdrawal