IMing Vs. Text Messaging...

I thought this was great article to follow-up to my IMing post (see below) Whoa, We Got To Much Time On Our Hands!

Now I can't, for the life of me, text message in less then a minute. Shoot, it takes me 5-7 minutes to text my sister 5 words! I think I'm getting better, I just need more people to text message.

:)

You gotta love IM....

I was just talking to my sister Yoly about IM and how wonderful it is. It's not a like an phone call. It's unique.

For example with IM you ever notice those long delays in either writing to someone or replying to someone?

You see your buddy's online, do you HAVE to talk to him? Nah you don't have to. How about when you are talking to buddy and you have to get up go the bathroom. Does your buddy feel uncomfortable because he hasn't gotten a reply from you? Nah I bet he doesn't. Especially if you told him "brb I gotta go to the bathroom".

Ever tried that on the phone? Now THAT should be on your To Do list. You just can't have the long delayed replies on the phone, because it just gets awkward.

Let's compare:

IM: Buddy comes Online

You have two choices: IM him or just ignore him for now and talk to him later.

Phone: Your buddy calls you.

Do you have two choice? Unless you have caller id, you gotta answer the phone even if you don't want to talk to him right now.

IM: You and your buddy are chatting online and he says something like "Ya so that's what happened man" to which you reply "cool".

10-15 minutes can go by and neither one of you cares that the other hasn't written back to you.

Phone: You and your buddy are talking on the phone and he says something like "Ya so that's what happened man" to which you reply "cool".

Can you have the 10-15 minute delay? No way! I bet you 30 seconds would go by and one of you feels you have to say something!

Ahhh the joys of IM. You just gotta love it!

Ode To My Mac....

As much as I love computers, especially if they are my own, I have no problem fixing it. I mean it's your computer?? And if something's not working correctly, well you want to fix it and continue working it right?

Well that's me at least, but I can't stand working on the computers at work. I only know so much and I really really hate when they go down. When they do, people can't work and that means I can't work and that means nothing gets done. Then I'm getting "yelled" at about not getting my work done.

Grrr!

Why must I fix them, why why why!!

I'll just take some dirt from here...

I have to say Aaron does the cutest things. Yesterday he was determined to help me around the house. He finally understood the concept of a dustpan and nothing was going to stop him from using it.

So here I am sweeping around the house with Aaron running around with the dustpan. I swept around the plant I had and let Aaron pick up the dirt with the dustpan and watch him carefully carry the dustpan to the trash. Bravo!

However, after we were done, I'm plop myself on the sofa to watch tv. After about 6-7 minutes I don't hear a peep from Aaron. It's too quiet. And let me tell you, when a 2.5 year old isn't making SOME KINDA noise, he's up to something.

So I get up off the sofa and find him when I hear *crash* and some little feet scatter. As it turns out the "crash" was Aaron throwing the dust pan to the side because he heard me coming. Nice (note to self, get quieter slippers). While he's running to hide in the bedroom.... I turn the corner and see dirt from my house plant all over ther floor.

Turns out Aaron wanted to continue picking up the dirt with the dustpan.......and found that the plant had more then enough dirt in its pot, so it needed to share. :-|

Do you want me to whip out my third arm?

Man I swear today hasn't not been a good day. I'm just trying not to let things frustrate me. Anyway, I want to look forward to tonight. I'm hanging out with my sister Yoly and I'm really craving a pizza!

On the road again....

I tell you that was probably the best vacation I ever had. Of course I will never drive to Mexico again. Especially not with a 2.5 year old. For the most part it was a lot of fun. I tell ya, you can never get too excited about seeing a rest area! And if it's a clean rest area .... Hot Dog! ..... You just hit the jackpot.

That reminds me, I was dying for 2 hours and I wanted to get my parents (who came along with me) to stop at the next rest area. After finally getting to one, I literally ran out of the car to the toilet. But alas, the door was locked and occupied.

5 - 10 minutes dangnabit what is the deal! Finally a lady comes out and says "it's literally an outhouse in there". Bwah? Then she says there was no toilet paper. Lady, you're killing me. So I run back to car to get toilet paper and back the bathroom and low and behold it was "literally an outhouse". :(

Nahsty.

It's kinda like a port-o-potty but at least you know that eventually those get cleaned. So I thought how the heck do they clean this one. I don't even know how to describe it. I don't think I want to.

Geez, I can't even keep up my blog...

Back again. Just wanted to let know where things stood at this time. So far Eduardo has been in Mexico for a little over 5 months. Things are going well with him and to be honest he looks great. I'm happy to see that, I was afraid he was going to look like he was starving.

I just got back from a nice vacation over there. Two whole weeks, while the trip down there was a half a nightmare. Just like leaving Mexico was half a nightmare. I don't think I've ever been search by INS that many times in my life.

Good thing I had Aaron's birth certificate...more to follow.