I am writing this as I sit waiting for my delayed flight to Boston from San Francisco. My younger sister decided to move from Boston to Portland and I am helping her move her car across the country. I’ve brought some toys to keep me connected and report my position along the way. Tomorrow there will be more photos of my setup as I get it installed in her car. My tracking site is located at the following URL: http://whereami.tomicles.com/ and if everything goes as planned it will update my position every 10 seconds or so while on the trip.

I’ve posted a new blog entry over at Abrevity which talkes about some of the new issues with the recently ammended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and how they might make your text messages and other types of web communications available for e-discovery if your company gets sued, you know, the ones that you sent while you were at work.   Check it out.

So after SHDH this last weekend, where I didnt give a rats ass about my phone since it was being replaced, I called LockLine to get my phone replaced.  They told me it would arrive tuesday and it would be $50 non-refundable deductable for the claim.  Today I called to figure out why I had not recieved my phone yet, and they said it was on its way and gave me a tracking number.  They then went on to say that there was a delay because the no longer have any MOTOROLA E815s and they were sending me a LG VX 8100 instead.  Not only will the 8100 NOT connect to my system via bluetooth the way I want it to, i.e. BluePhoneElite, but it also has a completely different interface.  I explicitly decided to go with the CHEAPER E815 instead of the LG 8100 when I purchased my phone, and still feel the same way.  So now the question is, what phone do I get?  I can go pick up a new E815 from Verizon for the Retail cost, and sell the LG VX 8100, or I can pick up something a little cooler, say a PDA phone or blackberry.  I dont know what to do.  Either way, I have a broke  ass phone that goes straigt to voicemail usually, and a brand new VX 8100 that I dont think I want to open, as well as an unused Treo650 for Sprint that I can sell.

What PDA Phone do I buy?

This afternoon I got my fourth phonecall from a strange number. The caller ID says the call is from ‘ 1 ‘ and when I answer, I can hear someone hang up the phone. The four calls have been coming in at random times during the past two weeks or so. I had a few entries in my phonebook that started with the number 1 as the contact name, and ive since changed them to something else, but I dont think they were in anyway related. I called Verizon to see if they could tell me that the phone number was actually ‘1′, but their systems are very lagged, and I have to check it on my next statement. The guy proceeded to tell me that I could ‘change my number’ if the problem persists. Like thats going to happen. Ive had my number since highschool and I’m not about to change it.