As much as I hate to admit it, it may be time to sell my Clie and use the money for something a bit more useful to me, be it a “Digital Wallet” for archiving memory cards on the road or just something simpler for my dayplanning. I love this thing, but it’s gotten to a place where I never use it as a dayplanner, just a notepad. I just don’t carry it around like I used to.
So I learned to do something new with BuzzNet. There’s a “BlogThis” button on the buzznet page that will autmatically add a BuzzNet entry to my Livejournal. You no longer need to join pelm0blog to get my photo posts, but you’re welcome to do so if you wish.
Someone tell me where the $400 for this baby is coming from, cause I sure don’t know, but I know it needs to come from somewhere. She will be mine, oh yes, she will be.
I downloaded a new peice of software to try out on my PDA. It’s called Ultrasoft Money and it’s basically a portable version of Microsoft Money which is what Heather and I use to keep track of all our banking. I get really bad about keeping receipts in my wallet and such, so I thought, since I keep my receipts in my pocket for so long and don’t ever enter them into the “checkbook” I shoudl carry the checkbook with me and enter them in right away. This Ultrasoft Money think is awesome. It does everything Money needs to do in your pocket, including auto entering data and such. It makes entering receipts a piece of cake. So not only do I know exactly how much money I have, but then I can take it home and sync the PDA and it will enter all that stuff into Microsoft Money on the computer.
The only problem is that it’s $40 and I don’t have that kind of money, even though, technically, it will save my hundreds in bank fees since I’ll be more on top of my finances. Like, I last looked at my account information at home on like Saturday morning and I had $47 dollars. Since then I’ve bought two things and now have only $41, but if I wasn’t entering the data in immediately, I’d only be guessing at ammounts rather than being able to say for certain. Now when I estimate how much money I have, I often get off by $4-5 which can mean the difference between being okay or being overdrawn. When I get overdrawn, because of the delays in posting with the check card, I can often buy two or three things, thinking I’m still okay, but actually being overdrawn before the bank and I realize. Then they charge me $33 an item for being overdrawn. So really, if this software even keeps me from being overdrawn once, it’s almost paid for itself.
I’m also trying to make more and more reasons to carry my PDA with me at all times because often it would be really helpful to have it, even though I tend to forget it a lot. By finding more and more ways it can save my life, I’ll be more likely to pick it up and slip it in my pocket when I leave the house. Oh well. I guess I really should find something to do rather than just writing journal entries.
I’ve actually posted a bunch of backdated entries, stuff I got off of my old PDA. I decided since I got a new PDA, that I didn’t need to bring all my old journal entries over from the old PDA to the new one, I could just post them here for posterity. This way I still have them and they don’t have to take up space on the limited RAM on the Clié
I really should write more. It’s the only way others would feel obligated to write, isn’t it? Not a lot has been going on, but then again, maybe that’s just because of my perspective.
It seems that sometimes I just can’t win with Journals. I wrote a literal shitload of stuff over the last three days in my Clié and when I turned it on a few minutes ago (or at least tried), I found the battery completely drained and everything gone. It’s too late to try and make up for it now. I’ll try to see if I can at least recapture some of my thoughts while I’m on the plane tomorrow.
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.
12:55 am
It’s late and I’m tired, but I just want to make a quick note in here. I spent too much money and bought the new NR70V. I’m not sure how I like it yet, it’s got all new features, but I’m not sure if they’re worth the extra cash. Honestly, I was doing fine with my old Clie; I think I just wanted something new. I may still take it back at the end of 30 days, there are some shortcomings that may make it undesireable to me in the long run. But for now its fun to play with!