Andrew Underwood

Life Update

Haven’t blogged in like… 10 days. So yeah. I’m still living happily in Lethbridge with no money. I have a job roofing, again, hard work but enjoyable sometimes. There is something about working at the edge of a high and steep roof that gives me a thrill. I feel totally at home on a roof. When you are up there, the roof is your whole world, even though there is a slope everywhere, in your mind it is transformed into a 2D landscape of which your body navigates by a different coordinate system. I am also going for a job at RadioShack, but we shall see about that one because they are probably looking for a more permanent person (I’ll be gone in 3 months).

Radio shack pays $4/hr less than roofing does, but I think that the difference can be compensated by the experience it could provide with my ultimate goal of working in the field of robotics. There are servos, adapters, hobby parts and electric guitars there, yeah! In my mind there is a huge market for robotic guitar players in the future, and robotic musicians in general.

Now to the cooler news in my life (Geek warning). Yesterday I came across amazing deals. Future shop had 100 DVD-Rs on for $30, that’s 30 cents for 4.7 GB! I headed there right after work and got the last one, whew. What’s even cooler though, I was actually headed to XS Cargo that opened yesterday (Future Shop was just on the way) as soon as I could after work for the grand opening. I picked 100 CD-Rs for 20 bucks and a Palm VIIx PDA with a folding keyboard for $50. This is Canadian dollars for my international readers. I am incredibly happy with it, the only quirk being that all the documentation is in some Asian language that I can’t read. That didn’t stop me from getting everything I needed off the net and downloading cool things for it all day. I’ve wanted a PDA for so long, four years ago this PDA costed $600, but now I have one for a minute fraction of the cost. The folding keyboard is just a wee bit bigger than the PDA itself and is about the size of a red New Testament bible, it folds out to a laptop sized keyboard and is rigid which makes it uber cool. The PDA had a fold out antenna which is actually vestigial because the Palm.Net network doesn’t exist anymore, but I probably wouldn’t pay for it anyways. I’ll be looking for a hack that lets me use it for wireless Internet though. It has 8 MB of memory which is more than enough. I’ve downloaded a load of E-books into it so I’ll always have something to read. Be warned, I’m accumulating knowledge faster than you can.