November update

Been having some issues with the insomnia and I have been working on managing it. So far with the day light savings time switch it has helped me a lot.
Also my new phone has come in and as this one is a flag ship device it should keep up with my heavy usage of gaming and VR which had been taxing my Nexus 5x to the point of freezing. The new phone is the Pixel XL and I'm loving it. It is slightly bigger but so much nicer. Let's see how 4GB does ;)

insomnia night

It is an odd occurrence but about once a month I have an evening of insomnia and I will be so wired that I can sleep and yet still be as Unproductive as if I was sleeping any way.
I think what it comes down to is my body trying to reset the sleep cycle that is all out of balance because of the hours that I work which pushed my whole day back. Hopefully I will be able to get some more normal shift hours and have a bit of a social life too.
Till next time,
Stay classy my friends.

Gardening again

Since this is the first year in almost a decade that I am not working at the summer camp and my roommate didn't have a garden in his yard I decided to install one in the dead corner or the yard. He thinks that the corner was were the previous owner had a swimming pool which would probably explain why nothing seemed to have been growing there.

Unfortunately I didn't take a pic of the yard before I put in the edgeing and the mulch but oops, some things should be left forgotten.

Why Do We Need a Livingroom, Conservatory, or Lounge?

     Recently my housemate had gotten around with a friend to firm up the ceiling in the living room as there was something wrong with it that made the floor upstairs creek more than is expected in an older house. They did some nice work with adding new beams but in order to work in there properly they had to remove all the furniture and place it all in the dining room.

For the love of god get this person a lecture tour

“Being tired isn’t a badge of honor” @jasonfried https://m.signalvnoise.com/being-tired-isn-t-a-badge-of-honor-fa6d4c8cff4e

Blackberry Priv: the hunt for the physical keyboard

Recently i did a post about the Blackberry Classic which runs the Blackberry10 operating system and I do believe that the phone is utterly dead and a expensive paperweight. I have been looking at the Blackberry Priv which is currently the only modern Android cell phone that has a physical keyboard.

it is common knowledge that the Priv isn't selling that well and I think that the problem is brand recognition and that the company has not done anything to really inform the public that blackberry is still a primo and not obselete choice in the smart phone market.

Blackberry 10 One Month of Thoughts

As many have said before BB10 is essentially dead and gone just like Palms WebOS.

My roommate let me barrow his old work phone the BlackBerry Classic so that I didn't have to swap my Verizon sim from my families plan with my Project Fi sim in and out of my Nexus 5x. My first week with it I. Noticed that the bbworld app store looked a little sparse of official native apps from Google, facebook, instagram and other popular and commonly used apps. However there were tons of options to choose from for paid third party developers that looked sketchy at best. I will say is that I have never had any sort of BlackBerry before and the ecosystem of BlackBerry apps had much to be desired and was informed I could do other apk files from android on it. Only problem was the ones I needed such as Hangouts to access my project fi account were not supported due to the dependency on play services.

My only issue was app support on BlackBerry was and is dieing off. I did see in an article that the latest app to stop BlackBerry support is whatsapp messenger will be ending it's support later this month.

The one feature that I was excited to use again on any sort of device was the physical keyboard. It took me a long time to say goodbye to it when I had no more boarded options from the Verizon store at home and I needed a new phone. Typing on it is so much faster that using the swipe keyboard on the android though it took me a bit of time to retrain my hands to type again. The only drawback is that it is a two handed type on BlackBerry keyboard and I can't walk have a coffee and type on the same time #americanprobs. 

I do hope that the BlackBerry Priv takes off because I would love to have a phone with a physical keyboard again and who knows maybe there is a chance that other makers will go back to it. (I still try to use my old android phone with keyboard when I can).

PS on the crack berry forums I did find a pc program that allows you to patch any android app including hangouts, inbox and other play services dependant apps. It will take a bit to set up but getting apps are a breeze after.

http://forums.crackberry.com/android-apps-amazon-store-apk-files-f413/cobalts-official-google-apps-landing-page-965257/

Back in Black

As some of you may know I work at a Boy Scout summer camp in NH and this was my seventh season at the property. I am backc from that and have had a lot of character developing moments brought to many of the North East Region's youth and to myself. It is always a humbling experience to be apart of such a movement that has had a few character developing moments of its own with the change in membership policy but that is not what the post is about. I am sad that the summer is drawing to a close, Happy with how it went and nervous with the next chaper that is commonly reffered to a "Real Life"

I am more overwhelmed than any other emotion because of just how much stress there is to moving. I do not have any idea of what to start with. Do I go with apartment shopping first or complete the job hunt? Then there is the whole change of adress that is pretty spelled out by the state and DMV but it is the first part that is concerning me above all else. I'll be consulting my parents on the matter but till then I'll just have to hold my breath, sit on the couch with a bottle of wine and watch some 90's Brittish comedies on Netflix.

Galaxy Note 4 Release

I'm looking forward to October 17th when the new edition of the note is released into the US market. I am not going to be getting a new phone as I am not on a plan that allows me to get a new phone every year and I am perfectly happy with my current phone. What I am looking forward to is with my phone becoming outdated that means that the expensive accessories that I have been eyeing will now become much cheaper. So I will be able to justify the price of a S View Charging case. Yay $30 instead of $70 that's something that I would pay.

Sibling life.

There is always some kind of tension between siblings and when there isn't it usually doesn't take long for some to arise. My frustrations havent been aired out to her because when I do it is an all out fight between us and I don't feel like picking a fight today. Let me start out with what has been bothering me.
1) She never cleans out her messes in the bathroom : This is always a complaint that men have with women because it is just gross when it starts to clog the drain and when it gets all over the sink and onto your shaving stuff. Also when I ask her if she could clean out her hair and also why she needs 3 of the same shampoo on the bathtub shelf that I keep knocking over I am inconviencing her completely. If I have to put the seat down and also take out my PJs in the morning she can meet me half way.
2) Dishes: She rarely empties and cleans out the dishwasher. If the machiene is full and she needs something then she just pulls out the spoon or what ever and leaves the rest in it while the sink fills up. I always empty the thing thing cause i hate hearing dad yell about it.
3) The Car: The car broke down when I was driving it and that was the last thing that we needed to happen to it in order to justify buying a new one. Currently the family is in the market for a new one. We don't even own the thing and already she is claiming and committing our car to things that make it impossible for me to drive it. I can use my mothers car but that means that I have to drive to drop her off and pick her up. She already has the thing committed to a week long engagement when someone else could use a car that they don't share. She does not consider what the other half thinks or how it will affect them. This scares me because she is going into management.
I know that this sounds like a role reversal for  a brother and sister but she is older and way more dominating and I am younger and apparently according to her the spoiled younger one. When I try to confront her of be a little more dominant she goes all ballistic and uses her womanly issues on me. I liked it better when she went to a different school than me. She used to go to a school in Connecticut and I in Boston. It was great i could do things without her judgement on everything. She will say that she doesn't care but her tone says she does, as if how I act embarrasses her to be related to me. She should have thought of this crap before she came  here.
Oh and another thing she corrects my grammar and will do it in front of friends and other people. If it bothers her that much then she should become a teacher than an accountant. I usually say "yes Hiasynth" and that shuts her up.
There is no space between us and it's killing me.