Time is such a cruel mistress isn�t she? She gives you just a little taste, just enough to get by, but not so much that you can really enjoy any of it. Unless of course you enjoy being tortured like that. But yeah, I�m definitely starting to feel the crunch. Work has been fucking busy trying to get this side-project done on top of all the stuff I have to do normally. I�ll spare you all of the technical details, but I finally got something working and the fact that, for an extended period of time, couldn�t get it to work has been driving me fucking nuts. But now that hurdle has been jumped, hopefully things will let up a bit at work.

Naturally, I�ve been procrastinating with some of my school stuff too so now I�m getting a bit close to the edge. Nothing derrick can�t handle, but still if there�s one thing I should stay �point� on it�s school, especially considering I actually like the courses I�m taking (both are mobile design/development type courses), I mean I should be eating it for breakfast, lunch and dinner and not just casually snacking on it, being the mobile phone geek that I am.

But yeah, because of work and school, I haven�t had much time to indulge in one of my true loves, which is of course blogging. Unless of course you count my mobile blogging, which by the way I�ve taken up a few notches by adding a few voice blogs and even a poorly lit video blog. I discovered a free service called Jott, during my research for a class project to convert voice into an SMS text message. I got the idea when trying to text while driving. Even though I have mad texting skills and mad driving skills, combining the two is just fucking crazy. There has got to be a better fucking way, and apparently Jott has come up with a free solution.

Of course it wasn�t quite what I was hoping, because I wanted to code the program myself, but apparently there isn�t quite enough processing juice on mobile devices, at least not yet to do proper, speaker independent voice to text conversion. Supposedly, Windows Mobile 7 will be coming out with some voice command features and maybe the professor can get his hands on a beta. But until then, the voice recognition stuff must be performed on a computer or server outside of the device. That�s where Jott comes in. You log in to Jott.com, put your mobile information in there, program their toll-free number on your phone and pretty soon you can do stuff like record stuff with your voice and have it sent out as a text message. You can do other stuff like sending yourself voice to text reminders and even voice to blog, which I have setup to my blogger account, which also happens to be my photo blog. (Which is conveniently linked in the right navigation bar *wink-wink-nudge-nudge*)

It�s all pretty neat stuff, but all these short voice blogs, video blogs and picture blogs don�t quite replace the full-blown typewritten blogs that I do here in diaryland, so I�m pretty much here to stay, as time permits of course. I could of course just move all my operations to my blogger account, but I don�t have the time to figure out how to get my blogger as �pretty� as my diaryland blog. Plus, I like the idea of keeping my quickie mobile blogging stuff, separate from my more serious postings.

I am seriously considering finally setting up internet at the Bachelor pad though. Part of the reason I�ve been avoiding getting myself wired at my own place is because both work and school are at a convenient distance away and having a net connection at home would be yet another distraction to me. Its bad enough I have a PS3 that I�m addicted to, but give me the ability to actually download stuff and play online with it? Holy Fuck! Not to mention the late nights I�d be surfing all of the porn sites (one-handedly I might add), plus all the extracurricular blogging I�d likely be doing, it would be fucking madness I say!

But I think I�m just going to have to fold and get it. There�s no fucking downtime at work to use the net and the late nights I�ve been spending at the computer lab at school have been ridiculous especially when I still have to travel through the cold of winter. I just need a bit of fucking discipline that�s all. As for reclaiming some of my time, I�ve stopped playing Elder Scrolls Oblivion on my PS3 cold turkey, at least for now. There is no such thing as I�ll just play a quick level up set or do a quick quest thing with that game. If I�m on there, I�m on it for hours. I can�t afford that type of distraction right now. I�ve also been procrastinating on my laundry, big time, opting to dry clean most of my stuff and just washing my underwear and socks. Sometimes I even just buy new stuff to avoid the deed. But yeah I need to do some fucking laundry eventually.

But whatever, I�m getting a bit sleepy and I might as well take advantage of this net connection while I�m at my mom�s place to download some porn, Er *cough*, I mean educational material. Yeah, that�s the ticket. So until next time...