This was pretty much an all day volunteer day again. We went to a location I hadn’t been before and installed some new PCs, replacing the old ones and transferring some data over. The most important parts I’ve found are all that is necessary: desktop, favorites and the outlook folder containing the OST files. So it’s a pretty easy transfer. That and what ever custom software might have been installed. Luckily that wasn’t really an issue this time around.
So it was rather uneventful, just a normal for an IT guy. Could have been improved by a pay check. Pff.
I did start thinking for some reason about what I might start writing for the novel-in-a-month thing I sometimes do and sometimes merely start but never finish. Namely I would start a fictional blog set around the 2012 election and lasting for the entire four years to the 2016 elections.
The more I thought about it the more I liked the idea. There would be some entries from mid 2012, some entries around the party conventions, the debates, actual election day, the inauguration on the 20th of January 2013, and the whole series of events over the four years.
I kept getting distracted of course by the presumable red-fonted warnings I would have to put up all over saying this is not a real blog over and over. Because conceivably it could get SEO’d and start actually showing up when the real election starts and some gullible people might actually mistake it for a real chronicle of events. So I’d have to stick warnings on it stating it is fictional, imaginary, not based on actual events, so on and so forth.
Maybe I could even make fake pages that the blog links off to. Also covered in “this is not real” notes.
Maybe I should just set it in some far-flung future with imaginary candidates, issues about giving AI life forms the right to vote or have access to whatever, the rights of the moon colonists to govern themselves and stuff like that. There’s still something about a blog set in the near future that’s just imaginary enough it could almost be real. That’s just sounds like it could really be fun and interesting for some reason…
Maybe I should just start it anyway in the novel-in-a-month month of November or not. I probably need more excuses for creative expression. I mean sure there’s this blog but this isn’t really that creative.
One more thing I’ll talk about: I perhaps unwisely purchased a bluetooth headset for my new phone. It was only $42 and seemed to of a little higher quality of other headsets in the same price range. And actually it’s the PS3 bluetooth headset.
I’ve only talked on it a couple of times but the reviews from the people on the other end seem positive as far as how well they can understand me. The one complaint I have is that my ear hurts a lot after about 30 to 45 minutes. It’s pretty bad. When I got home I removed the rubber bumper that is wrapped around the speaker ear piece and tried it and it actually seemed a little more comfortable but there was still a level of irritation. I’m going to have to either dissect an old body glove 2.5mm jack phone headset and see if I can Frankenstein it to conform or just return it and find something else.
The documentation, which is probably more extensive if I went to look on the web site for it, didn’t really mention a lot about how to use it with a phone besides a few lines about how to pair it with a phone. I could probably find some better information if I looked.