I’m babysitting a few compiles right now, so I’ve got a few minutes to kill.. This weekend Stephanie and I finally got around to watching the wedding video, which turned out pretty great. We did realize one thing that we might have changed: after The Important People had left the church (by which I mean the people who were either on stage or in the first row or two), the music just kinda stopped and there was an uneasy silence for a few minutes before everyone started talking. The other thing is that we made people wait way too long at the reception before we came out there. This was due to: 1) The photographer taking about fifty “one more shot” photos; 2) Stephanie’s dress needing to be rebustled (which ended up taking something like thirty minutes). So we’re sorry about all that. Otherwise, people seemed to have a good time, at least in front of the camera.
The compiler just spit out an error saying “1 future error(s) were detected and suppressed.” The compiler can tell the future!
In other news, I now have Vonage. Unlimited calls to the US and Canada for $25/month (came out to something like $27.xx with those stupid taxes). This means we no longer have to wait until after 9pm to make long distance calls. Which is good since pretty much all of our calls are long distance. If you’re thinking about getting it, you get a better deal if you do it at BestBuy. We were just there to buy a new phone, because we wanted a cordless phone one with two handsets but one base. You see, I can’t sleep without a phone in the bedroom. You have to have one in case there’s a phone call at four in the morning. And calls at 4am are never good news but never news that you want to delay till morning either. We also have nice features like Call Waiting, Call Return, Three-Way Call, and Caller ID, all for no extra cost.
So anyway, we’re looking at phones and the guy asks us who we have for phone service and I say “BellSouth” and he’s like “How much are you paying?” “Twenty-five dollars a month” “Really? That’s low” “We don’t have a long distance carrier, we use cell phones and calling cards for that”. Then he starts talking about Vonage, which I had already been looking into, and he says that we can get $20 off our phone if we sign up for Vonage (that’s $20 instantly, not a rebate). And you can transfer your existing number for free. There’s no BS “set up” fee for someone at Vonage to click on a button. The only thing is you have to buy the adapter, which is essentially a Linksys router with two phone jacks on the back of it. We decided to get the 802.11g wireless router instead of the regular one, because when I get a laptop it’ll be nice. And I can use my PDA with it right now. So if you’re curious, the router was $130 with a $10, $20, and $50 rebate (bringing the actual cost down to $50, which is pretty reasonable I thought).
My biggest concern is that if I’m maxing out my bandwidth I won’t get a very clear phone signal. I’m planning on testing that out soon. But so far it’s been very clear, definitely much better than any cell phone I’ve ever talked on.
Oh and I am soon ridding myself of my cell phone. I hate talking on it, and I have no real need for one now. We’re keeping Stephanie’s, and I live within walking distance of work (not that I do walk, but if I had car trouble I could). And otherwise I’ll either be with Stephanie, at the apartment or at work. If not, I’ll just take Stephanie’s phone with me. It’s a nice system.
Compiling on UNIX takes forever! I’m gonna get back to work, I thought after fifteen minutes these compiles would be done but I guess not.
