Yeah Risque Yeah

Alright, after a few days of futzing around with it I've managed to change quite a few things that Josh and the manual led me to believe weren't possible.

I've figured out how to change backgrounds and how to make custom backgrounds and themes. Which turns out to be ridiculously simple, IF YOU KNOW HOW, there appears to be no official assistance for that. I found it in a tricks section of a sidekick wiki that crassy linked me to. I figured out how to make the directional button actually work like a directional button in the phone's menus instead of the default: "OH HAI IMA PAGE DOWN/SIDE BUTTON THAT NEVER PAGES THE SAME NUMBER OF OPTIONS EVER". Found the font size and have changed it to the smallest, which I like. Because, let's face it, the Sidekick Slide's screen, while bigger than my previous Nokia, seems postage stamp sized next to modern slide/full querty phones.

And I figured out how to turn off the constant blinky light. But I've gotten used to it now so did not do so. Green for all systems go; battery is still good, red for OMG BATTERY LOW, and blue for O HAI U HAS MESSAGE YAY.

It's taking a bit to get used to qwerty, I've been a T9 wiz for so long. But I have used this sidekick once before in an emergency (Nokia took a diet mtn dew bath, and was drying out and I had places to go from which I had to call/text for a return ride), so I have had a tiny bit of practice before so this time is not as annoying as before. I still try to hit some keys twice for words like "no" and such.

I am happy to have it more configured to my liking and looking forward to being back on mobile internets with it once we get that reactivated, but I still stand by my belief that I shouldn't have had to learn how to use it or spend so much time searching and researching on how to change very simple options. I expect more from a phone OS than this and was a bit spoiled by Nokia's Symbian OS.

But regardless I feel better about this being MY phone for now since I have no clue when I'll be able to join the Android world.

Testing my mobile post settings.
I think I like the other fon user picture better, I don't know.
I wish it'd let me make a default subject and tag.
So I don't have to go back in later and add them.

Oh, and attaching a picture to test that also.
No I don't have a camera phone.

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble.


I can feel the devil walking next to me.

My backpack's got jets,
cause I'm Boba the Fett.

"The cab I had was a real old one that smelled like someone'd just tossed his cookies in it. I always get those vomity kind of cabs if I go anywhere late at night. What made it worse, it was so quiet and lonesome out, even though it was Saturday night. I didn't see hardly anybody on the street. Now and then you just saw a man and a girl crossing a street, with their arms around each other's waists and all, or a bunch of hoodlumy-looking guys and their dates, all of them laughing like hyenas at something you could bet wasn't funny. New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed. I kept wishing I could go home and shoot the bull for a while with old Phoebe. But finally, after I was riding a while, the cab driver and I sort of struck up a conversation. His name was Horwitz. He was a much better guy than the other driver I'd had. Anyway, I thought maybe he might know about the ducks."

Just finished watching tonight's Lost on ess42 about 15 minutes ago.
They're really setting us up for the mother of all season finale cliffhangers, methinks.

She can't get away from livejournal even in bed thanks to fon.

My socks were too tight, my feet have fallen off.
How am I going to sleep with these bloody stumps?
Can't stop here, it's bat country.

When I'm a stripper I'm going to strip to Livin on a prayer with big hair, fishnet stockings, high heel leather boots, fingerless gloves, lots of silver dangle bracelets, blue eyeshadow, and rip off a bon jovi band t-shirt.

It'll be THE hottest thing ever.

Woo! 515n to 215w and I found me!
Back in familiar territory. I think I was on a cloverleaf interchange, it's hard to tell when one's so close to it.
Just a buncha twisty onramps, not the pretty design as seen from above.
Methinks there's some sort of zen lesson there, too close to appreciate the pretty?

Whatever, or the thing is just a thing,
an onramp is an onramp is an onramp.
Nootch.