oh it's gonna be just Grand

And the slow death of long distance calling charges begins... do you hear the call of change?
GrandCentral

BEFORE YOU TRY WARNING: once you pick a number, you can't change your mind and start over and get a new number-- yet? that's why you won't see my # on my blog yet. Plus eventually, there'll be a WebCall button on this page that calls you first, once you pick up, then calls me. So you may wanna think it over for a week/month/year, plus they're in beta (sigh jeez, "testing") and haven't finished making the service yet, so waiting may get ya more options. I know this because I got a number ... in the same area code I'm in. Duh. Stupid brain injury. Plus, at this point, it's only possible to pick your area code, but long distance charges are set by area code PLUS phone number prefix, so they may get around to that problem, until then, choose carefully.

It's cool stuff though...
1) if someone leaves you a voice-mail, you can access it later from ANY computer, and you can forward funny ones VIA EMAIL
2) you can route calls from certain people to certain phones (I suggested adding certain times of day 2 certain phones along with)
3) you will no longer have voice-mail at home, at work, on your cell, all in one place
For a better list of cool features, GrandCentral Features

They're in testing, so please speak up about any useful feedback. Cheers from Google Land!

my old sailboat's doing great!

So I found out today that Qwerty (sailboat, recently became ex-mine) is doing well, her mast gets to enjoy the luxury of staying up instead of going up & down every time, and... she's looking RIGHT AT No man is an... ... ... ... (island)!

the "information age"

So the internet was invented yesterday. At least, according to Wachovia (WalkAllOvahYah). I owe dad some money. We both have individual checking accounts at WalkAllOvahYah. Since we had to go to our local branch anyway to deposit a check, we asked there if we could transfer the money electronically. Their answer: "Well, ummm... you could... maybe-- hey Billy-Bob, stay AWAY from the livestock-- sorry, maybe er, do BillPay?" So I came home & tested that first, added my parents as a biller, then added and paid a $2 bill. And dad just got a printed check in the mail (physical mail, not email) for $2!!! Hellooooo? What complete nonsense! And I just called their "Online Services" department, thinking that there was something I'd missed. No. They're too busy dealing with Billy-Bob. Since WalkAllOvahYah is our ONLY local bank, I can't wait to move to a bigger town-- sorry, scratch that-- a town at all. At least, a town without Billy-Bob.

Give me a brake

So driving therapy took a big step forward this morning: WE GOT A BRAKE INSTALLED IN MY CAR FOR THE PASSENGER SEAT! And since I felt so confident in it... we went for a sail. Not being one to take things at the face value folks claim they're at (I do play poker), we tested it. It appears to work! So if I'm ever in a car wreck, you'll know it's not my fault! ;-)

NOW I'VE (RE-)MET MY WHOLE AMBULANCE!

So tonight I met (or re-met, from her point of view) THE OTHER MEMBER OF MY AMBULANCE CREW!!! (See this post for when I met the first) And when we left the scene of the crime, SHE THOUGHT I WAS DEAD!!! And she came to work on her day OFF just to meet me! It was just simply AWESOME to be able to look her in the eye and shake her hand. And I also got to drop off invitations to share in my joy with me at my many free-ish hobbies/activities with either/both of them! THIS IS A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO BOTH OF YOU!

WOO

HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Independance day!

Merry July 4th, all. It was special for us for two reasons: 1) last year, we were all in my hospital, 2) it was the first ever time we saw the fireworks from the water, on the pontoon boat! It was cool! There were like 6 shows going on at once, so it was spin-around-o-rama, and cool all around. Okay since you asked, the third reason: with my double vision, I saw TWO shows! How cool is that? And with the reflection in the water... yeah. I'm just glad we made it back safe from drunk-boating extravaganza. (and earlier tonight I asked "Okay, we get it. We're independent of Britain. Can we just move on now?")

I'm 1 re-year old today!

I'M 1 RE-YEAR OLD TODAY!!! (7/1) It's my first ever Rebirthday! My Rebirthday occurred when I WAS comatose and it was the first time I followed a command. ("Hand the bottle of water to G----- over there.") That's the first time I showed any signs of being alive (yes, I had breathing and feeding tubes) So we rejoiced by sailing on Rebooted! It was the first ever time that we rigged her and did the entire show ourselves! And after rigging her, we don't hate each other!

Two roof antennas decided to get married. The wedding wasn't that good, but the reception was awesome.