Two weeks ago our group lost Linda Kresl to another company. Major bummer as she was my hope and savior for getting a BI environment for customer care reporting. Plus she is very intelligent and very driven and I was hoping she would be my mentor. Rats! Well guess what? Yesterday we found out that my manager, a senior director in the company, is moving to another company! Yes, the same one that said I should blog my VW vacation is LEAVING US! But hey, when a good opportunity comes along ya gotta take it so, like Linda, she will be really missed. She has been really good in getting me to communicate and work with my internal customers on prioritizing my workload -- and it's a full one! However, it's not all roses as there have been some folks let go and we don't know why. Pretty scary during these low economic times for sure. I learned from Intel that no one is irreplaceable, especially as long as India has cheap (in every sense of the word) labor so I do worry about my position.
Our silly two-year phone contract with ATT has finally expired...well, back in June. Two-year contracts are stupid, hate them!! So I've been looking for a replacement to my Moto Q 9H phone (don't like it) and have decided upon an Android OS phone. I've been reading and studying and comparing and with the plan I can get through my work I've decided to get an HTC EVO 4G through Sprint. Not crazy about Sprint since they screwed me over back when I was in the Navy but that was a LONG time ago so here's to hoping things are better. ATT and Verizon are the only other real choices out of the bazillion phones available at this minute. In a couple minutes I'm sure half of them will be replaced with another billion "different" units. Whatever. Verizon sucks monkey butt around here so Sprint is the lesser evil. I was considering the iPhone 4G but...meh...I dunno, I'm just not that enamored by it to pay such a ridiculous amount when I can get the same and more with another brand. I have to see about the family plan and what my baby can use since she doesn't want her BlackBerry -- she hardly even used 1/5 of its capabilities, she just needs a phone that can take a picture, text & do multi-media messages.
Huh, I remember when phones were all land-lines with rotary dials...we even had a party-line back when we lived out in the sticks...
Our silly two-year phone contract with ATT has finally expired...well, back in June. Two-year contracts are stupid, hate them!! So I've been looking for a replacement to my Moto Q 9H phone (don't like it) and have decided upon an Android OS phone. I've been reading and studying and comparing and with the plan I can get through my work I've decided to get an HTC EVO 4G through Sprint. Not crazy about Sprint since they screwed me over back when I was in the Navy but that was a LONG time ago so here's to hoping things are better. ATT and Verizon are the only other real choices out of the bazillion phones available at this minute. In a couple minutes I'm sure half of them will be replaced with another billion "different" units. Whatever. Verizon sucks monkey butt around here so Sprint is the lesser evil. I was considering the iPhone 4G but...meh...I dunno, I'm just not that enamored by it to pay such a ridiculous amount when I can get the same and more with another brand. I have to see about the family plan and what my baby can use since she doesn't want her BlackBerry -- she hardly even used 1/5 of its capabilities, she just needs a phone that can take a picture, text & do multi-media messages.
Huh, I remember when phones were all land-lines with rotary dials...we even had a party-line back when we lived out in the sticks...
