Category Archives: Life in Motion

iPhone, Mobile Me and other things

Events, Life in Motion

You’ve noticed my tendency to pick a topic and then ramble off topic, right? Okay, then. Let’s carry on. :giggle:

So I have the iPhone 3G and I did the 3.0 upgrade yesterday. Everything went smoothly for me, with no glitches. I haven’t used the cut and paste feature yet, but my son did on his phone and said it’s slick. Yay! I did play with the Voice Memo’s app…haven’t sung into it yet, but trust me, I will. Maybe #2 son and I can do a duet. Wheee!.

What I did do was sign up for Mobile Me, which I’d been pondering but on the fence about, until the 3.0 upgrade included Find My iPhone for Mobile Me. Which means if you lose your phone or it’s stolen, you can use Find My iPhone and it will locate the phone via GPS for you, tell you exactly where it is. So if you’ve left your phone, say, at a restaurant, you can send the phone a message which will pop up on the screen. That way if someone finds it they’ll see “Hey, I left my phone at your restaurant. I’m on my way to pick it up.” Pretty cool huh? Another awesome feature is if your phone is stolen, you can send a remote wipe command and wipe all the data from your phone. Awesome! I have mad love for this feature.

The Mobile Me sync feature just rocks my world. If I type an event or a reminder into the calendar of my Mac, it automatically syncs to my iPhone. If I type a contact name and phone # or email into my iPhone, it automatically syncs to my Mac. I don’t have to manually sync anything. This is amazing because no matter where I am I have access to my calendar, my contacts, and all my email addresses. :boobie:

I haven’t used the Mobile Me email yet because I don’t really know what to do with it or what it’s for.

So onto things not Apple related….

So enjoying having #2 son visit. Especially enjoyed when #1 son and his family came over the other night. You can read my amusement at my blog post today over at Writeminded.

Temps here are in the high 90’s this week. Dude, it’s June,not August. Wtf? I can only imagine how brutal July and August are going to be. Just kill me now.

Hope you’re all having a wonderful week. 5 days until TAKEN BY SIN releases! Back to writing for me.

This That & The Other Thing Monday

Life in Motion, Writing & Publishing

#2 Son has descended from California with his dog and will be visiting for a couple weeks, always a great time of year for me because I love having him here. He’s a high school teacher so summer is the only time we get to see him. I can’t even begin to explain how enjoyable it is to have him around. Even though I have to work, he tosses his laptop on the table across from mine, does his thing while I do mine, and we work companionably together, occasionally stopping to talk to each other. He’s a great kid…okay, so he’ll be 28 this year and so not a kid anymore. :giggle:

Working on the new book. Found out something about my heroine that rocked me back on my heels and will force me to take my book in an unexpected direction. That’s always fun when that happens. And no, I don’t always know everything about my characters until I sit down and start writing them. As I do, they reveal bits and pieces of their backgrounds to me. This was a big one and will provide a huge twist in this book that I hadn’t expected, but I think will deepen the emotional conflict between my characters. Yay!

In other news, TAKEN BY SIN releases next Tuesday, the 23rd! I’ll pop up an excerpt tomorrow. In the meantime, go read Greta’s review Thank you Greta!

This week, I’ll be visiting with the son, writing writing writing….and uh….writing.

Oh, and watching my usual way too much of reality tv. The Bachelorette and So You Think You Can Dance are my two favorites for this summer. Anyone else watching these?

What’s on tap for y’all this week?

This, That & Tuesday

Life in Motion

Howdy people! I hope you all had a nice weekend. Here in the US of A, it was a holiday weekend for Memorial Day.

Holiday weekends mess with my head. And long weekends exhaust me. Sure, lots of people love them because you get that extra day off, but to me it’s just extra days filled with lots of extra stuff to do, and a hell of a lot of running around. We did plenty of that this weekend.

Friday night we planted azaleas in one of the back yard gardens. Nine azaleas, to be specific. I love azaleas in the spring. They’re so pretty. Keep your fingers crossed these suckers don’t die on us. We had to put fence up around the flower bed because the idiot dogs out back like to run right through that particular patch, so we have to train them that area is off limits. The flower bed is right under our bedroom window, so last night we’re lying in bed and I hear a ‘donk’, followed by ‘boinnnnnng’. Yeah, one of the dogs banged right into the fence. Learning curve, ya know. :giggle:

Saturday, my daughter and I went to the Old Navy $1 flip flop sale. Good googly moogly, you would have thought Old Navy was giving away diamonds. First, the parking lot was full so I had to park in one of the other lots. Then when we walked in the store, we could. not. move. To say the place was packed with people was a serious understatement. But we muscled our way in, grabbed a bunch of flip flops and got in line. There were approximately 6 lines, all at the very back of the store and winding around. And around. And around. It was insane. We waited in line 2 hours. No, I’m not kidding. 2 Freakin hours for $1 flip flops. And it was hot as the 7th level of hell in there. One woman fainted and the EMT’s had to be called. Then the Fire Dept came and wouldn’t let anyone else in because the store was over capacity. Um, ya think? When they stopped packing people in like Sardines, it got a little cooler in there, but if I’d known going in that we were going to have to wait 2 hours in line, no way would I have stayed. Worse than any Black Friday shopping experience, ever. :gah:

Saturday night Biker Dude & I went to see Terminator Salvation. Yummy yummy movie. I loved it. I thought it was a great addition to the Terminator franchise, brought something new to the table, and I hope they do more. And the character of Marcus? Delicious. Great characterization. I highly recommend this movie. Biker Dude loved it too.

Sunday was race day. I was all set to park my ass on the sofa for the Indy 500 and the Coca Cola 600, in between a full day of cooking. The Indy 500 ran, the Coca Cola 600 was rained out. Bleh. Nothing like having your heart set on a full day of races. Mother Nature thwarts me again.

This week is all about editing the book from hell that I finished writing last week. It’s due June 1st, so my mission is to make it beautiful. I edited the first 8 pages a little while ago, and it made me all weepy. I suppose that’s a good enough start, huh? Let’s see if I can make the rest of the book sing.

Hope you all had a great weekend.