To start, the battery lasts a long time. I can go weeks at a time without charging it. It’s slim, fairly simple to use and easy on the eyes.

UPs:
- Charges your CC without having to login
- Group books together to reduce clutter on the home screen
- Copy PDFs/Books from the computer over to the Kindle
- Free 3G world wide (if you get the 3G version)
- Computer application if you want to read from your laptop/desktop
- Make notes / Bookmark
- Built in dictionary

Downs:
- A bit slow at times
- 3G is not the fastest where I am at.

Overall it was worth the $189 for the Wifi+3G version.

Cozumel, Mexico – 7-8 days on a scuba diving trip
Germany – 3 weeks on a work related trip
New York – 2 weeks on a work related trip
Colorado – 1 week vacation

2010 is no different.

March
Texas – SxSW Festival
Texas(again) – For MOSQ school
and a few other place(s) I won’t talk about at the moment.

Sometimes its necessary to start from scratch as your results will be much better. I am still a ways off of being done, but so far so good and I am really happy with how its turning out.

Anyways, I have been doing both the streaming to my Xbox 360 as well as getting the DVD’s in the mail. As for the 360, its a pretty good experience. There was only 1 day where it kept telling me it detected a slower connection so it would lower the quality to keep the movie going smoothly. Except for the fact it did this several times within 10 minutes and it got to the point where it was so grainy it wasn’t worth watching anymore. The next day I got an email from Netflix saying there was some trouble with their system and increased my trial date by a day. Awesome! I haven’t had that issue since.

Get your dvd’s in a day! I know I do. They have a shipping center in Lansing which is sweet! I dropped my DVD the other day in a mailbox just after 4:30. By 7:15 the next morning I had an email saying they received the dvd. Then just shortly ago, I got an email saying the next dvd will be here tomorrow. I picked it out late last night so I am happy. I do plan on keeping Netflix as it is cheaper than going to Blockbuster. There , I rented a DVD for like $4.00 ( I think it was $4 and change), and didn’t care for the DVD. Now I can pay less than $9 and watch a bunch of movies, and if I don’t like it, move on.

Oh yeah, they even have the IT Crowd. Gee Wilikers BATMAN!!!

In the terms of an ebay review

Would recommend A+++++++++++++++++!

New job so far has been good. Still working on getting access to everything I need.

Today I got approved for the apartment I was looking at. Tomorrow shortly after drill I am signing the lease. I will be moving in once I get back from Germany in ~3 weeks. It was also my last day working for the school district =(  . Seems odd that it was going on 5 years since I started working there.

Saturday I leave for Germany! Wooo! Hopefully I will have some fun. There are a few things I am not liking so far, but hopefully it will change.

(it will be the 3rd time this week I am in Charlotte.. peachy!)

Hopefully when things settle down I will write a decent blog post.

6 days after I get back from that trip I will be heading to Germany for just under 3 weeks for some National Guard training. I hear its going to be boring, however it will be a great expereince in my opinion. I had to get a Hep-A, Hep-B, and Flu shot as my records were out of date. Then they health department also gave me a tetnis shot because my state records didn’t show it even though the military records did. (bummer dude!)

I applied for an AGR (full time) job with my Guard unit as a Personell Services Delivery Redesign Clerk. Essentially I take work that would happen at the state level and do it here. After a few short weeks I found out I got the job. So I will be moving to Charlotte and starting that job shortly after I get back from Germany. I am really excited for this. Though I will have to reclass my MOS to a 42A (Human Resources). Though, I think this is a good thing so I have no problem doing it.

So, by law they must switch by June 12th and anytime before then.

To keep the page load time down I implemented a “javascript” way to do grab the last one. The page you are looking loads with all the content. Down at the bottom just before the </body> tag there is a div and inside it I load a PHP with javascript. That PHP file grabs the last post from Twitter and shows it. Thus, the only content not rendered right  away when waiting for Twitter is the last tweet.

=)

Not sure how much I will use it, but it was fun.