DMGWeekend Notes
I got a Black, 8GB iPhone 3G on Saturday. It's still little more than a cool toy, but it is a very, very cool toy. I'm looking at productivity apps that support things like reminders, to-do lists, etc. For now, I'm sticking with my Moleskine day planner for to-do lists and reminders.
My hope is that I'll be able to keep more in touch with friends and relatives now that I have real email and a web browser in my pocket. We shall see. I'm probably going to end up using the iPhone for my personal organization (which is relatively lightweight), and leaving the paper notebook at work, where there's lots more to keep track of, and where losing data would be catastrophic.
Does anyone know of a way to auto-update my blog with what tunes my iPhone is playing? That would be pretty slick.
The downer is that getting the iPhone and getting it set up ate most of my Saturday. I spent two hours at the store, plus another hour at home. I really didn't want to leave the house for the day with two half-functional phones, so I ended up completely blowing plans to climb on Saturday. Meh.
I saw The X-Files: I Want to Believe on Sunday afternoon, and while I enjoyed it, I really can't recommend it. Might be a good rental. But the series clearly ended in a very different place than where it started, and the movie just didn't feel very distincly like The X-Files. The basis was good, but it was stretched out way too far, the creepy/sci-fi aspects got lost, and it turned into just another serial killer flick.
I did get to climb on Monday night, which was great. I'm waltzing overhung 5.9s again, and 10a is very doable, if sometimes challenging. I don't have the endurance I once did, but that's fine. It'll come with time, and I'm certainly leaving climbing in the "just for fun" category; so if I improve, great, but if not, I'm fine with that too. There's lots of great moderates out there.