I Want It All

My $10 Android phone (Moto E, 1st Gen) which has no voice, text or data plan is complaining about space, the final frontier. As in, I finally can't fit another app on it. Which sux, 'cause I've moved all the ones I can move to the SD card (16GB), and all my photos and videos are stored in the cloud, now. This may be why my pano shot at Lake Leland did not store... anywhere. And the one nice shot I got had a nasty horizontal line glitch in it.

Yes, Google Play Movies & TV... almost all of that is on the SD card, as its approximately 17 hours of television episodes (SD card) and the app (internal). Those episodes are of The Expanse (whole first season) and the last eight episodes of Breaking Bad. Those are my "go to sleep" entertainment for my battery-powered sleep cycle. Start one, I'm asleep in 15 minutes or less.

All of the Google shit seems to have to run from the internal storage, which really chaps my scrotum. 'Cause it's all so big and heavy!

This is all I can put on the SD card, so far. I'd love to install MyTracks again, to help Brother Bob with the cool map action, but I don't know a way to force it to install on the SD!  Any hints?
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Birthday Boy

Happy seventh, Nephew!
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Wednesday Weigh-In

© Wader via flikr. Used under Creative Commons license.

The holiday allowed me an excuse to behave foolishly (six Lagunitas IPAs, for example, and very little exercise), and so this week has been a bit of a plateau. Here's to next week.

Starting weight (6/2/2014): 218.0 lbs.
Current weight: 204.0 lbs.
Difference: 14.0 lbs.
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HBD2ME

LG G2 (or VS_980_4G as it identifies itself by default).

I have a check waiting for me in Murfreesboro. It's from the shitheads at Asurion through whom OfficeMax does their replacement insurance plans on stuff. It's just over $200, to cover the replacement of my broken Asus/Google Nexus 7 tablet -- my second, btw. Now, the Nexus 7 is not a defective product -- it's fookin' awesome in every respect. But it is a bit fragile.  :)  I broke my first one (which I still have, and it works... but sometimes completing the simplest thangs on it requires several orientation changes, due to the cracked display/touchscreen) by dropping it onto a tile floor. I put it under my arm to take a piss, and the rest is obvious. The second (covered by Asurion!), I broke when I put it in my back pocket while moving, and bent down to retrieve a LarryElvis who had jumped out of my arms. *CRACK!*  Yeah, that was three months ago, telling you how committed to customer satisfaction those fuckeyes at Asurion are!

The point is, the Nexus 7, as a concept, is deceptively-sized. It's small enough to fit in many back pockets, but otherwise too big to hold onto in one hand all the damned time. What I needed was a smaller tablet or a phone that could be a WiFi-only tablet with a kickass camera, Bluetooth capability and decent storage space. Something I could put in a front  pocket with little worry of breakage. The LG G2 fits these needs.

"I am not an animal phone!"

It boasts a 13MP camera, which is more than enough for cat pixels and oddly-placed backflow assemblies' serial number confirmations, which is damned handy for me. At work, we recently has a visit with a fellow from corporate IT named Chul, who lived for a time in the Nashville area. Chul though for the additional $80/month it would cost, combined, for me & my boss to upgrade to serious kickass smartphones from our current crappy flip phones made perfect sense. There are too many instances where photographic documentation, ability to edit MS-Word documents (like our inspection form!), GPS live turn-by-turn navigation and whatnot would end up saving the company a shit-ton more than the cost of getting contracts on these phones. So, that may happen. But this company said we badly needed a PC replacement two years ago, and still we wait. So, nice words are nice words.

Chul mentioned that we have a policy for BYOD -- that is, "Bring Your Own Device," where employees can receive a stipend on approved devices/data plans, using their own tablets/phones. The G2 is one of those approved & supported devices. :)  Another deciding factor.

So, I still have to get all the drivers an' shit straight -- as of now, I still can't Bluetooth files back and forth from my PC, but I'll keep working on it.
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Twelve Monkeys Years (Belated)

From a few years ago.

Curly turned 12, yesterday. I still love him, despite the extracurricular peeing. He's a big moosh.
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Hoppy Beer Day, Larry Flowers!

Meghan shows Flowers his 8th birthday card, from me. See, looks like Curly, with binoculars.

Megs read the inside to him, which was "Meow, meow. Meow-mraw!" etc.

Megs has a huggy buddy. Happy Eighth, meezer!

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Half Cent

46 years ago, today.
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Seventh

Hoppy Beer Day, Larry!
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Happy Tenth

B-day skritches.
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Six Years Of Catblogging

Yep. Huzzah.

And since the AudioSwap on the video with Curly (and only Curly) will not take, here's a truly horrible picture of a big cuddly guy with a beard, hugging a meezer.

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Solstice Meezer

Such a happy-go-lucky guy.

Maybe I'll get one tonight of Curly, who has taken to the dark, cool closet already this morning. Gonna be a hot an' stormy one.
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One More Of The Birthday Boy

Because it made me larf. :)
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Happy Ninth Birthday, Curly!

I love this kitteh. He's now about the same age I am.
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Happy Fifth, LarryElvis!

Lovey boy! Been with me a while, now.
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Eighth

Happy Eighth Birthday, Curly!
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Happy Birthday, Plum P!

This is also the third anniversary of LarryElvis joining Team Curly (and the above photo is the first one I ever took of him, in kitty jail). Some quick links to the days festivities:

Meeting LarryElvis
He's Home!
Video of L.E. in Dad's Face
Curly's Reaction

UPDATE: Live stream to plum p's radio show (m3u), from 8:30-??, tonight.
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They Wish Me A Hoppy B-Day

Thanks, guys.
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Seventh

Happy Birthday, Curly!

UPDATE: For thems what don't mind re-runs, here's one from three years ago, today.

UPDATE 2: d clarke sent Curly a birthday greeting.

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Birthday Boy

Three years old!

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Birthday Dreamin'

It blows my mind that Curly tolerates this. He must be deep in REM sleep.
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