sleep

i dont understand why, on the days i dont have anywhere to be until late, do i wake up at 5am but the days that i have somewhere to be at 7am i can barely roll out of bed at 630...whats the deal???

anyway, here it is, my first (even though long time coming) impressions on the iphone 4... the device i have been more excited about since gizmodo acquired theirs, the phone that people said would "revolutionize the mobile phone industry.. again," the phone that crashed both apples and at&ts servers. i would like to say that i do like my new phone but... there are things that i can not stand!!!

first things first, the following is a checklist of the main features of this phone:
retina display - love
5mp camera - love
720p vid cam - love
apples a4 processor - wow... love!!!
gyro + accelerametor - love
led flash - meh
multitasking - HATE WITH A PURPLE PASSION ON A HOT FREAKING DAY!!!
external antenna - meh... lets start there

i must say that i have had problems with phone reception like this before, in fact this is not the worse reception problem i have had. my next to last sprint phone i had to hold the phone at the top while raising the bottom of the phone almost straight up to talk at times, even when the phone was registering full bars. i hate talking on the phone anyway.

led flash, as you may know i am a shutter bug, i am rarely with out my camera so i dont use my iphones cam very much for stills. in other words i dont use the led flash very much so that feature is kind of wasted on me. but the video cam, man i love that. i dont use it as often as i would like (i kind of forget about it) but when i do, well... ITS SO AWESOME!!! in fact i bought a dock thing that i velcroed to my dash so i can start a car vlog... hope i update more often than i update this blog (;

speaking of flash, lets talk about apples conflicts with adobe and their "powerful" web enhancement, flash. i pretty much hate flash. it is pretty annoying most of the time. i have never missed flash abilities on my phone and if a website does not have a non flash version, it is pretty obvious to me that i dont need to visit it anyway.

ok so lets talk about that sore thumb thats sticking out of my list, multi tasking. when we used windows mobile phones you had to close every program twice, once to initially close the interface and again in task manager because if you didnt it would clog processing there by slowing the phone and eventually causing your phone to lock up. im not saying that the iphones processor will not handle all the processes (apple put a cap on the number of processes that can be open at one time) but if you only use an app once in a while, like i use the clock app on average once every few weeks, i hate that i have close the app then reclose it... THATS COMPLETELY REDUNDANT!!! i wish they would include a switch in settings to turn it off, that would be awesome but will probably never happen.

so over all i love my iphone 4, although i dont love it that much more than my 3g. it is better and much MUCH nicer looking, i cant say that i feel like i am on it as much as when i first got my 3g. i am on it a lot but i am not as enammered with it like i was with my 3g. im glad i did it though. anyway, i hope this was enjoyable as well as informative.

boredom

so i am sitting here at the tavern, kind of bored... im not much of a socialite. kirk is playing and last has just been called. i was just able to be proud of my marriage in public (not that i am never proud of my marriage in public but this time i guess i got to brag). one of our friends just announced she was super excited about our up coming anniversary party this weekend. the guy she was talking with across the table from me just asked how long we have been married. i said "ten years, in fact we are the only people in our core group of friends at the time we got married to stay married at all." i guess i kind of blabbed that before thinking, since i dont really know this cat, but it made me proud... sorry to those reading this who are no longer married or have never been married... we love you (;

anyway, the person who proclaimed her excitement about our party will be leaving us soon. her and her husband are moving to alaska. he is from there and misses it a lot. monday they go to austin so she can try out for american idol with another friend of ours. if she doesnt make it to hollywood they are splitting that friday (i think) for washington state to stay with his dad for a few weeks. then they make to trek to alaska. they decided last week to go so they put in their 2 weeks notice at their jobs and started packing. what faith, i mean, they dont have jobs or prospects for jobs or any ideas about how they will make a living there but they are jumping out on faith. i admire them for that. and i will miss them, we just started getting close. oh well, such as life. we will keep up with them through facebook and i guess they have phones there, seems unlikely though, HAHA.

so as a final thought i plan on adding another post next week, possibly on tuesday night whilst at the tavern, and the main subject will be a review of my precious... PRECIOUS!!! see you then!