Refactorings

So last night I upgraded my iphone to the new OS4. I have a 3gs.

I basically expected something to go wrong with the update, but it turned out to be a non-event.

Everything went perfectly smooth on the upgrade.

New Awesome Features

Really didn’t notice much here either. Now my wallpaper is visible all the time behind my phone icons and the icons “explode” outward when I suspend / initialize the screen. Apparently none of the apps I use support running in the background, so it’s pretty much same experience for me!

I’m in the cloud!!

New swing in the new backyard. I like watching the leaves fall, calming.

Unfortunately the iphone camera doesn’t do the colors of the leaves justice:

First of all I want to thank everyone who believed in me, I couldn’t have accomplished this unbelievable moment without your support.

If there is anything I’ve learned, it’s that you have to reach for the stars to make a lasting impact.

The reward is in the journey.

**edit: There seems to be a small amount of confusion. This is not a trophy, but a golf ball / golf T in a water globe puzzle.

I’ve been in a rut lately, and even more of a blogging rut. Did I ever even really get started?

A couple of key things happened yesterday that turned things around for me a bit. I went out to Art-a-Whirl yesterday with Jaime & Miles. In my neighborhood there’s a small warehouse district which houses hundreds of local small art studios. Every spring they hold Art-a-whirl and allow people to tour their studios and check out / purchase their art. I felt inspired walking around these great spaces, surrounded by all this creativity. I really wish I could work in this kind of environment. Despite that longing, I ended the day with a feeling of optimism.

That optimism was further bolstered by looking at all the greening trees on the way home.

Then something else happened. I came in the house & knocked over a stack of old cd’s I had unpacked from when we moved to our new place in March. These cd’s were all the old abused cd’s I didn’t have cases for, that I keep on an old cd spindle that you buy CD-R’s on. I managed to pick up all the cd’s with one hand, save one, which remained upside-down. I reached for that CD, flipped it over: Jawbreaker: Unfun.

Now it’s Spring, and now I’m fully optimistic.

Here’s why I moved away from AZ:

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I got lucky the other day. I jumped into my car to go grab a sandwich at Nelsons Cheese (the lexington is an amazing hot sandwich), and just happened to catch a radio broadcast of a great talk by Palagummi Sainath: Nero’s Guests: Globalization and the age of Inequality. I was lucky enough to catch the radio broadcast of his talk at the University of Minnesota. His speech (at least the part that I caught) was focused on equating “first world” countries with Nero’s guests who watched prisoners burned alive to light his parties at night.
Pulse interview

“It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely fortune — and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up this grim sign of the Thunder Cloud.”

–Herman Melville