diarist | punker | anarcho-minimalist
so now comes the brainstorm
or search, i should say. a search for a mobile hotspot/4G LTE device that i will use solely for home-use purposes. I am going to do a simple Google search and then go from there. I am sure i can find one that is affordable and on ATT. In fact, any service works. So time to search
desktops are so convenient
i mean don't get me wrong, i loved my three years of being mobile-only, but, after using this Pi desktop for the past....since Christmas, it has been a treat. I can do so much more stuff w/ it (e.g. classes, proper profile updates, web design, etc). But i am still a big fan of being a mobile user. Which makes me think: what phone should i really buy next month? I mean a phone is in the works, no doubt, but i sort of want a higher-end one instead of the straight BB Q10 like i was going to get. The Q10 has a lot of benefits (& i am still leaning that way) such as; BlackBerry I.D. sign-in (can ditch e-mail altogether), total security/privacy, the fucking epic QWERTY keyboard that i have used in the past and adore, HUB services built into the OS, affordable price. Other phones won't cut it because i am basically working with a $200 (-ish) budget and i would have to spend all of that were i to get a different phone. Not to mention the whole point of this is to get away from Android. Haha.
Question: is any of this necessary? I have a desktop now, and i can get a mobile hotspot deal for the apartment, and I don't really use my smartphone when i am out and about doing stuff so....why not just get a feature (flip) phone? I haven't ruled this out. Which one matters nothing to be so long as i have my same phone number, but, yeah. I may just opt for a feature phone in the future. Not there yet, but possibly soon. We'll see.
Be back in a bit!
tomorrow is a brighter day
today has been about conserving what little food i have left and conserving what few nicotine lozenges i have left as well. it has been a boring day and i slept through most of it.
tomorrow, i go grocery shopping in the AM & get a lot of killer food that is going to make me very happy. lol.
tonight will be a slow night & i guess i will try to get some sleep but tat doesn't seem v likely, tbh. chances are: i am going to sit around in the dead-silence of the night and wish it was morning. :/
my neighbors are fucktards, too, btw
the evening is juuuuust chilly enough to leave the window open and not freeze. anyway...
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on the second cup of coffee
also made arrangements w/ my sis to go grocery shopping tomorrow AM because i guess the mom is ignoring me, or is tired, or whateverthefuck. i am not going to take the blame because she enables my dad too much.
nevertheless, the coffee is delicious, & the weather is....bleh. Haha. Really overcast & cold so, nothing remarkable there.
New lessons begin on Wednesday. The Federalist Papers should be coming in sometime next week. I saved “Diplomacy” (the book) on Google Scholars Search (the whole thing is there for FREE!) and i am probably going to read that after The Federalist Papers.
good times
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Research Project
i have one in mind. a little vague atm, but i think i can do this project after i have the skills AT researching. i am p excited about this, but it is going to take some time before i go forward.
Abandoning E-Mail
Reasons to abandon e-mail:
-no one i know in real life uses is/contacts me with it (other than my therapist who can switch to text or phones calls)
-there is basically nothing secure about Gmail other than you can use 2FA with it, yet, that still doesn't protect you from Google reading you fucking e-mails in order to show you ads
-ProtonMail is only useful to the extent that it won't read your e-mails, it is secure, and has a nice layout, etc. Again, no one e-mails me, tho
-I use Gmail primarily (in fact only) for newsletter sign-ups. Nothing else. It may as well be a spam acct
-I thought ProtonMail would be somewhat useful by signing up for relevant services w/ that acct, only to find out that basically no e-mails i get from anyone/any service is useful.
So, since i was aware of these things before i wrote this blog post; i went ahead & deleted PM & i would delete Gmail from this phone, but that cannot be done as far as i know (it's Android).
Thing is: i am switching to the BB Q10 running BB10 OS, and when i do, it uses a BlackBerry ID format to sign into not only the phone itself, but also the app store, etc. So, again, any type of e-mail service is useless to me.
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i am attempting to calm down right now
i am not going to go into though bc fuck the people who pissed me off
anyway, i got shit to do next week, including therapy on Wednesday but i don't think i am going to be able to make it. oh well.
i am also not going grocery shopping on Monday
so i will just sit around and be hungry and have nothing to do but study. just studying actually sounds fun, but the “nothingness” that comes before and after it, coupled with hunger, is not welcome. But that's my gd plight.
fuck it
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about to dig into a longread
and i am officially putting down Fight Club bc that book is boring af. the movie is 1000x's better, i gotta say. have you seen the movie? OK, now imagine reading that movie. lame. lol. Instead i am going to wait until i get the book The Federalist Papers in at SLCL & walk down there and check that bad boy out for three weeks which is more than enough time to read all of it, i am sure. Gonna be a good read, i think. it just happened to be recommended to me on Goodreads (the website) right after reading about it and deciding that it sounded like something i would want to read. Karma? I don't think that is how karma works, but anyway...
Lesson 1&2 are done w/ the Writers Research Methodologies certificate program and another Lesson happens next Wednesday. So, good times :)
I got not much else to do today besides the article i am about to go through.
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nada damn thing to do tonight but...
...drink decaf and probably listen to some music. i have been listening to a lot of Paramore lately (AWKIF) and i am as smitten as a kitten in mittens with that decision. i fucking love their early stuff because it is so gd emo & that shit is fire. lol.
payday cannot roll around soon enough bc i need these doggone glasses bc the current pair are damn near useless as far as the prescription goes. always struggling to see. pain in the ass. other good things happen on payday, too, such as ordering the BlackBerry Q10 (w/ case) and finally have my OWN phone after borrow my brother-in-law's phone for X amount of months.
good times
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Lesson 2: DONE!
Lesson 3 starts next Wednesday.
I have no idea what the family is up to other than working miserably. I suppose i am going to see my dad tomorrow at the hospital, that is, unless someone backs out from taking me up there (bc half the time something “comes up”). Whatever.
Nevertheless, i am without any (GOOD) food, but i am going to get by on rice & veggies (again) & decaf coffee (which the latter isn't as bad as it sounds).
I am really enjoying this coursework. Great stuff.
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