Imablog

Tomorrow my friend Rick arrives (hopefully).

Aside from going in to class, I have the next week off. Then Thursday it's off to Dragon*Con!

Time to start planning out what I want to do.

woohoo!

Rocket corn dog, chili dog and fries from Jack's Cosmic Dogs on James Island

Wow, almost 8 months with this thing now.

If I think hard enough, I can mostly remember the phone number for it. Usually it's just easier for me to look it up in my T3.

Now that a few more people seem to have ended up with the number, I've discovered another mildly annoying problem with the phone. Sometimes when I make calls or get calls, I can always hear the person on the other end, but they can't hear me. It's like the microphone has been muted or something. The only way I've found to fix it is to reboot the phone. Sometimes.

Oddly enough, if I switch to speaker phone mode, the person on the other side can hear me. Of course that means I'm broadcasting my call to the world.

A while back I ran into another annoying bug where the speaker would cut out while listening to music or podcasts if I used the camera while something was playing. It's another thing that requires rebooting to fix. Since I don't have enough people calling me on a regular basis, I don't know if this muted mic problem is related to the camera thing as well or if something else is causing the problem.

On another less complain-y note, I've been using Swiftkey for a little while and am really enjoying it. Its predictive text actually makes using the screen keyboard a lot less painful. It takes a little bit of getting used to at first, but after a while it becomes pretty good at anticipating what you want to type next. It beats the pants off the built-in predictive text. It'll be an app worth paying for (once it gets out of beta).

First planning session for BarcampCHS went off reasonably well at Coast Brewery (although it was a little hot and noisy). The big items right now are finding a venue, getting some sponsors and getting the word out.

Thanks to Collecta.com for being a BarcampCHS sponsor again this year!

One location that might be a possibility is the Education Center at College of Charleston. It offers a reasonably big atrium and classrooms for the sessions. Parking would be a bit of a pain though.

Interested in helping with the BarcampCHS planning? We'll be having meetings every other Thursday at 5PM (next one on September 9) most likely at Coast, but stay tuned to the BarcampCHS twitter account for the latest on the meeting location. The meetings at Coast just happen to coincide with one of their beer tasting days. Come help us plan for another successful BarcampCHS, try some of Coast's latest offerings and bring home a growler of your favourite!

Missy, foster dog #5, is at her new home today! She went home with an older retired couple this afternoon and it sounds like she's doing well there.

Missy was a great dog, but it's nice to be back down to a two dog household.

Finally made it out to Closed for Business again for two things: Coast beer night and to try the poutine (fries with cheese curds and gravy).

This is what I got.

There were the fries, and the cheese curds but instead of the gravy I was expecting (which melts the cheese curds in to a delicious ooey gooey mess), the plate was topped with shredded beef (which melted the cheese curds into a nice ooey gooey mess). Not quite the poutine I was expecting, but very tasty nonetheless.

Went pretty well with the Coast HopArt IPA too.

Planning for the second BarcampCHS is starting to kick off. Stay tuned to the BarcampCHS website or follow BarcampCHS on Twitter for the latest info.

Getting these shots required much patience.

f3.6 at 1/400 s exposure