Day In The Life of Baz

Guess what new toy Google’s got under their belt. Well if you can read the huge title above, you know what I’m talking about. Google has purchased GrandCentral.com

What Is GrandCentral?

If you aren’t familiar with this wonderful service, GrandCentral proclaims the whole “One number to rule them all” premise. It really is a nice service. You have one, that’s it. It’s meant primarily for those of use with multiple phones (Home, cell, work, friend’s house, etc). The idea is that someone calls your GrandCentral number and all your phones ring at the same time. It’s not as bad as it sounds people, it’s not like all the phones are in the same room, remember? If you’re home you don’t have to kill your cell phone minutes, if you ran to the store, but you’re still waiting for an important call, you wont’ miss it. If any of your numbers change, you go to the accounts section and change the number there.

I meant to mention this some time back, but I lost track of it. Washington is now the first state to ban text messaging while driving. While I understand the premise of this, I have to wonder, why do we need another unenforceable law? Really a cop pulls me over for texting? How does he prove this? Talking on the cell phone is hard enough to enforce, but at least a cop can see the phone. How is a cop, minding his own business, going to see someone texting under his steering wheel?

And when you do get pulled over, you say you were turning the phone off, or your were looking for a number. Oh well, I guess it’s time to think up some excuses.

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Today I got tagged by Lava for 8 random things about me. Here’s how it goes: You spit eight (8) personal facts about yourself and you tag eight (8) other bloggers with it. Here we go:

1. Like Lava, I like dolphins too, but on a plate next to some rice and potatoes. Yumm
2. I thought I would like a job doing something I like, but I realized that I just don’t like work period.
3. I have absolutely no furniture in my apartment. I really don’t see the need right now.
4. I’m in love with the color blue. Almost any shade and I’m there, but if I had to pick, it would be navy.
5. I just fell in love with AutoHotKey. Excellent tool. I guess I love it because I’m lazy.
6. I’m lazy. Yes, I really am. Actually, I just like the quick, short, efficeint way around things. I’ve never been one to reinvent the wheel.

Today at about 1:16 PM, don’t ask me where they got the time from, but today was officially the first day of summer. What’s special about today? It’s the longest day of the year. I was sitting in the break room at work, when one of our employees came out with some ice cream cones, syrup, whipped cream, and of course ice cream.

This was our “First Day of Summer” celebration. One good thing about the longest day of the year is that it’s all down hill from here. I can’t wait till the nice short days of fall come around. I hope they bring some cool weather with them. One good thing about today is that it was very cloudy out today and I think a lil’ bit rainy too, so it wasn’t hot. Right now, I’m not a big summer fan. Since I’ve graduated and work full time, I get ten (10) vacation days a year; that’s it. So no more summers off. All that happens during summer is that I see all the other happy folks that don’t have anything to do while I’m on my way home from work. And of course there’s the heat.

Why would Michael Weston get fired from the CIA? In the new USA Network show, Burn Notice, this guy gets fired from the CIA and then gets burned. Everyone is after him and he goes into hiding trying to escape.

But back to the matter at hand, why would one get fired from the CIA? There are real life CIA termination stories ranging from leaking information to blogging. But Michale Weston doesn’t seem like the type to sell secrets; I don’t know, he strikes me as a good guy. And in the ads I’ve seen, he definitely doesn’t look like he’s trying to rush home to get a post off.

But, Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) seems like the type to bend the rules not break them. And seeing Jeffrey Donovan in a few other roles (Hitch is the latest one I can remember) he strikes me as a “sleeping with the enemy” type of guy. Yep, I’d be willing to be that he bedded the wrong woman at the wrong time, and his bosses got involved. Now, we’re talking about the enemy here, so that’s like treason. You can’t just suspend someone for that; so he got burned for sleeping with a woman (pun very intended).