Pro re nata.

Post of 2012, and already slacking. 6 days in. Just used the Starbucks app to register a Starbucks card and then pay for my short Caramel Macchiato by scanning it. Pretty cool. Rang in the first day of the new year with some food poisoning. Probably turned me off of prime rib for a bit. Shouldn't eat a medium rare leftover after a week in the fridge. Not pleasant at all. But only lasted a night/day. Had some miscommunication on New Year's Eve day, so had to bring Lucy with me when I had to come in to work on a Saturday. I don't think she liked that. Had to come in on Monday to finish up what I couldn't. Tracy came down and we got lunch on her day off. That was nice. She actually took a full day off and dropped Lucy off at my mom's. Good idea too as she's fighting off a cold. Started watching Greek again. Figured out how to get Sony Reader books unDRMed and into iBooks. So that's nice. Been reading a lot of comics, specifically, G.I. Joe from IDW. They actually blamed the subprime thing on a villain who gave the heroes a choice between stopping that financial crisis or a poison gas attack. Which one really is worse, in the long run? Finally taking down Christmas decorations this weekend. Yuck. Tempted to cut up the tree before sticking it in bags for removal from the premises. Not sure what's going on this weekend, but nothing too extravagant.

Fairly lazy first weekend of the year. Tracy took down decorations, I helped a little with the tree, bagging it, sawing some branches off, and lopping the top off. Probably easier to just hack it to pieces next year. Brought out the big Meile vacuum for all the needles. And finally got under the couch. Who knows how long that's been. Finally watched Captain America: The First Avenger during Lucy's nap on Saturday. She even caught the tail end of it. She even got some playground time this weekend, weather was nice enough. Dinner out on Saturday night at Forno Diablo, but simple rustic italian fare. Tracy had a craving. Plowed through some How I Met Your Mother's that had backed up. Kind of a downer of a season. Church and stuff on Sunday, another playground, got some Five Guys, the girls had Chipotle. Jailbroke my iPad for pretty much a single reason: F.lux. Except now I just realized that iBooks no longer works on a jailbroken device. Stupid. So now I've got to restore. I really really liked f.lux too. Poop.

Nuke and Pave. Both iPhone 4S and iPad. DFU restores. Starting from scratch. No restores from backup. Installing apps as I go. Foregoing lurking on Facebook as well. First apps: iBooks, Twitteriffic, Reeder. Also trying to keep iPhone/iPad in sync, not installing non-universal apps as much as possible. Exceptions: foursquare, Buster. Only have 2 home screens on the iPhone so far. Just a couple apps over into the 2nd home screen on the iPad. Curious how this is going to work out. Also trying to limit myself to syncing apps, that aren't data black holes. Wish there was an iOS universal RDP client that kept your connection list synced between devices. Oh well. But just want to keep apps that I use. Lucy's been crying at bedtime the last couple of nights. Strange. She was so good at sleeping before. Hoping it's a short phase. With the Christmas decorations down, and Tracy's plants not up yet, the living room is strangely empty. Getting that urge to nuke and pave the AV Rack. All those wires are pretty annoying. Tempting.