Mile club
Originally uploaded by markandarin
Maggie and I went to Arin's school at lunch today and helped her class earn tickets for their school "Mileage club". The class that does the most laps gets the banner for the next week. It was nice to get out and see Mommy at school and meet some of her kids. they all made sure they said goodbye to Maggie, but I must have been invisible. It was fun. I hope we win!!
Friday date.
Originally uploaded by markandarin
I got the idea from one of our friends at church, that on my day off to take Maggie out for a morning 'date'. We had some errands to do this morning, and hey... We were by the starbucks on
summitview. So we needed to take a little break from the day and got some chocolate milk and pumpkin bread. I love the days that we get to spend together. I really hope that i never get too busy or
she never gets too old for dates like this.
With enough searching and trying I knew I could do it. I found out that I can send a picture to flickr, then they have an "auto-blog address" that will automatically send that picture and text to blogger.
You need to sign up with flickr (it's free) and then click this link
http://www.flickr.com/help/blogging/
It will walk you through setting up an email address so you can send straight to flickr. Then you can also set up an auto blogging feature that you choose your blog and it will give you a second address that will let you send it to flickr and then it posts it in the right format to Blogger. It SOUNDS kind of complicated, but theflickr site walks you through it really easily.
Once you set it up right, you will get TWO addresses. One that is for posting straight to flickr words##words@photos.flickr.com, and one that will post the picture to flickr AND auto post it to your blog words##words2blog@photos.flickr.com. (you will receive your personalized address. They will both be the same except that the blogging one will have 2blog included in it.) I added the second one to my phone contacts with just the second email address. That way I don't need to remember the address, I just pick dadspov in my contacts, hit send and it is done!!
It creates a link to the picture on flickr, so as long as you don't delete it from flickr you will be fine.
Now when I take a picture the subject becomes the title and then the body is the text. I KNEW I COULD DO IT!! It should work with any phone and any service. you will just need to pay for sending a picture if your plan doesn't include it.
Biker chick
Originally uploaded by markandarin
Maggie was very excited to have a chilly day to go out and ride her bike.
Arin and I were able to upgrade our phones this weekend, and Arin decided to go with the LG Rumor. When I went in to replace her phone that was stolen I was told that they would honor the buy one get one free offer that they are offering to new customers. so now Arin and I are both playing with our semi-matching blue and green Rumors. Well it has a slide out full keyboard with a camera and camcorder. so I thought "SWEET!!" i can take a picture out somewhere that i don't have a regular camera and then add it to my blog. Maybe be a little bit more updated and random with my postings. well I found out that i can text message a post just fine, but if I try to send a "Picture Mail" from sprint, it gets hosed. I don't even get a response. so now I am like a man possessed trying to find a work around, or able to add my picture mail address so I can post from my phone. I will spend the next few weeks scouring the Internet to find a definitive answer and then never use it. it is the principle. I know the technology is out there, and I want to be able to use it the way I want to use it. once I figure it out, I will lose interest, and never visit it again.
But hey, everyone needs to have a vision right? I guess mine could be worse, and there are probably SO MANY better ways to try and focus this energy, but for now I will be all consumed with it until I get to the bottom of it. then I will be done with it. until then... GAME ON BLOGGER AND SPRINT!!
