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11/20 Journal

At the rate I’m going, I won’t actually be on the road till at least 1 pm, which means (sadly) that I won’t get there till probably 2 am. :( I really should have left yesterday. Oh well. I’ve got the housesitter set up. I’ve loaded a ton of food into the trunk. Some of the stuff is frozen fairly solid, so it should stay well chilled. All that’s left to go out there is my hair dryer and such (I really need to go dry my hair). That, and this computer, which means it’s time for me to log off. I hope to post from the road, but if that doesn’t work, I won’t be back till tomorrow.

Rabblerousers

So in my pissed-off mood, I looked about for an alternative that would not include the evil Verizon paragraph on moblog posts. I found rabble, which claims to manage such things. It is posting without garbage in the text. The downside is that I have to upload the photo and then separately post it to the site—and all that uses much more airtime. And there’s a monthly fee of $2.95 (unless I read something wrong). And, another sigh, the images go to the rabble server rather than being posted on my server. Maybe I’m better off with paragraphs of spam to delete :(

I’ll need to test it more tomorrow. I’m not sure that I have all the settings correct; but it seems like a possibility at least for this trip. Now, it’s time for bed.

11/18 Journal

This sugar cookie with party sugar sprinkles is for demonstration purposes only. Yes, I am finishing up the cookie baking for the trip to Virginia; but really the cookie was just one of the few things in the house that I could take a picture of without having to tidy first. The cookie baking area was already quite tidy.

But why did I need a demonstration image? I found out when I got home and checked the image of the cute Vue that I sent from the Saturn dealer that Verizon is now tacking on crap when I upload an image to my blog. A full, freaking paragraph of garbage that looks like this:

This message was sent using PIX-FLIX Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!
To learn how you can snap pictures with your wireless phone visit
www.verizonwireless.com/getitnow/getpix.

To learn how you can record videos with your wireless phone visit www.verizonwireless.com/getitnow/getflix.

To play video messages sent to email, QuickTime 6.5 or higher is required. Visit www.apple.com/quicktime/download to download the free player or upgrade your existing QuickTime Player. Note: During the download
process when asked to choose an installation type (Minimum, Recommended or Custom), select Minimum for faster download.

What has been up until this point a nice simple upload is now spam upload. Here I was thinking I could take pictures during my road trip, and now I have this spam. GAH! I deleted the spam from the Saturn image, but it’s really got me ticked off. If I have to publish that paragraph of crap with every image I upload on the road, the blog will just look stupid until I can get online and delete it all. They’ve essentially fixed it so that I hesitate to send the images at all. As I said, GAH!