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Although I had plans for writing about and completely focusing on Twitter, I am instead blogging about a Gadget that I found this morning while half asleep on my laptop.
To completely throw my systems out there and paint a better picture, my main PC is a Dell XPS [Windows XP] & I use a 22 inch monitor. I use TweetDeck (it is wonderful!), and occasionally use the actual Twitter site for updating and getting friend updates. My laptop is a Dell XPS 1530 [Windows Vista] with a 15.4 inch monitor. I use Blu for Twitter, which is specifically for Vista (... oh how I wish it was on XP!) || Anyhow, you do see the monitor size difference right? =( Yes, it makes a difference in the canvas I call my desktop/creative/interface/personal space. I love Blu, but it wasn't tiny enough for when I just wanted Twitter updates running around in the background.
It truly pained me to not have a Twitter application that would fit in the narrow space called, the Windows Sidebar. So, I went hunting! There seemed to be a few graphically or application failing gadgets, but Chirpr was not one of them. It was most appealing, and I wanted to share that.
- Gadget: For Windows Vista Sidebar
[ Chirpr - http://chirpr.codeplex.com ] - When Twitter isn't my main priority during certain times of the day, this fits! It is discrete to the point that there are 3 different sizes for elongating it for viewing more tweets and you can scroll. Since it is a gadget, it won't overlap anything you are working on. You can also set the widget for sound notifications. It doesn't distract me while I browsing in other windows because it doesn't blink or flash either. Helpful, resourceful, and it works for me!
:: Image from Chirpr site. (My laptop is dead!)
So, I was completely bored last night. I was up readin a bunch of strange stuff. Mind you in the past few weeks I had just watched Déjà Vu & The Da Vinci Code.
Here was my thought process lol --
Last night was supposed to have been the largest Full Moon of the year. It was snowing, so I didn't remember to look. (& no one reminded me)
I then looked up Lunar calendars...
Then recalled needing to look at things like Online Group Calendars, SharePoint and other random community/business organization planner type of things to try scheduling far future events. Costs $, but I found one that was under $20/yr- I can't recall if it was per person though. I might have to come up with something.
Mayan Calendar, lol. Coincidental weirdness... End of the world is supposed to be 12/21/12 at 11:11 GMT?!
Digits of 111+222 = symbols of 444
That is the symbol for Jupiter.
Astronomical/Astrological alignments. Odd things in coincidence with crop circles depicting predictions of the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on planet Jupiter. (...curious? "The Scorpius Hour")
More crop circles showing other predictions of exploding stars, comets and planetary alignments. There are many numerical figures and calculations involved in some of these theories... nuts! There are some interesting things about some circles that match building 'blueprints' of religious facilities.
This ends up leading into Nostradamus predictions and Biblical revelations.
Now I'm reading about Stonehenge. lol
So, its been one month since the burglary... lol why was there someone outside with a ladder again??... I think they were on the roof though. ..... Anyway, regardless of how paranoid I was, I went out to pick up Apy... driving fast so I could hurry up and get back before someone plotted on stealing anything again.
I was up, unable to sleep. Mindlessly and repetitively playing Solitaire on my phone did not work. I couldn't stop thinking last night on how badly the burglary affected me in the past month. I became even more worried about the fact that I'm hiding everything before I leave and how sometimes I JUST don't want to leave at all. Repeatedly looking over my shoulders.... this SUCKS. I then remembered how I felt when I was only a town away for the holiday festivities, and in the back of my mind wondered if the apartment was safe. I still expect the worst; alarm and all. NOT FUN! :(
As for more stupid crap-- getting screwed out of money for being completely honest; Allstate wanted to cover only most of the stuff (sans $300 of items that did not "belong" to Lee - my jewelry and purses), charge a $500 deductible and deduct more for depreciation. So out of the $1200, we got like $350 back. They said they would refund the GameCube depreciation amount if we bought a Wii. So, that would be us spending all that we got back, pretty much. They would refund the depreciation for other items as well... (What?! That's like $1 and yay... its like 42(?) cents per stamp just to mail the receipt...) How rude is that though? Depreciation?? F- that. Good job Allstate, way to kick someone while they're down. We paid full price for these items, and we get hit with depreciation!?... It's not like I am trading in a car as compensation for anything... this burglary was clearly NOT for my benefit. I got my stuff stolen. I want it back. Replacement is only materialistically sufficient.
