I think I feel bad?

I really love 3rd shift. It probably sounds weird to most, but I enjoy it so much. It fits me like a smedium polo shirt...perfectly.

But wouldn't ya know I got pulled off of it and am now on 1st. I despise 1st shift.

Here's how it works. On 1st shift work starts at 6am. Yeah, that's too early for me. It's also way too hot for any sane person.

3rd shift starts at 10pm. I get to sleep in and I have all day for any appointments or anything important I need to get done. It is so much cooler at night and I don't have to wear a stupid safari hat.

Ok so I love the safari hat but it seems like people think I should feel bad for not being grateful. It's not like this is an opportunity to learn more. I'm not at all grateful, I'm the one guy who didn't want to go on 1st.

Bah, bring me back to 3rd as quickly as possible. The night shift is perfect for me and I can still walk in there like a boss and wear the hell out of that hat, even if it's dark out.

Kick It

So my wife's big thing lately has been blogging. By a big thing I mean she gave herself a 30 day blog challenge wherein she wrote something every day.

By now we all know I'm way too lazy to do anything like that...but it got me thinking. I thought to myself
"Well if I even tried to do that I wouldn't be able to keep doing it in my phone. Unless of course there was a user friendly app that made it easy."
"That's what I'll do, I'll write an app for people like me. And then I can blog about that."
"Huh? There already is one? Well surely it can't be as good as- oh, it works perfectly well I see."
"Ok, guess I can just write about the app I guess." :(

So after that inner dialogue here we are. The app is called Blogpress and it actually works pretty well. You can easily add links, pictures, and even videos.

Is it worth the couple bucks in the app store? I don't know if I would have bought it, but then again the first thing I did with my phone was jailbreak it when I got home.

I'll throw up a pic so everybody can see that it works.





Yes that's a man preparing sushi with a big slice of pizza behind him, so what?

Me Me Me

I enjoy links. Well I guess it's better said that I enjoy the ability to post links in my blog. With my current method this is sadly impossible, or at least requires a minuscule amount of research and effort on my part, let's not get ridiculous.

It's so much easier to just complain about it to the world and share my frustration with people, hopefully not long enough for you to realize reading my blog is probably a waste of time, not even the valuable kind. I mean the kind of time spent looking busy in the office but playing Angry Birds. I'm even wasting that kind of time.

Oh well, such is the way of blogs. They feed the narcissistic nature in all of us, no matter how much we tell ourselves it's important it is to stay in touch with other people and there interests.

That's ok though. It's my completely uneducated and unresearched belief that venting this narcissism online helps us better listen to and appreciate what other people are doing or saying in person.

Maybe some online selfishness helps us be more real life selfless, comment below and make me feel special.

LIES!!!!

So Blogger doesn't work so well on the iPhone. I've come up with a plane though, the wonder of copy and paste.

So I'll be trying this method instead, typing in Notes and copying and pasting into blogger. This could be a huge failure or it could be my greatest accomplishment. Probably failure :(

As the title suggests I was 100% lying about posting frequently. I'm sure it happens to most people but I just lost the motivation. And screw using Windows Dictation, that's a pain in the ass.

So we'll see if this turns out to be easier and therefore keeps my interest longer.

Now to post this and hopefully have it be the first of many.

First of Many

OK… Here we go.

Hello everyone, this is the first entry of what will hopefully be a long journey. I am entering the new world of windows 7 dictation. I would encourage new readers to go into this with a light heart. It’s difficult to have correct sentence structure when using dictation over typing. You may notice some sentences that seem to run on or perhaps incomplete thoughts. I’ve left these errors in on purpose.

With this first blog you may notice that it’s a little bit longer than most. You may also notice that future entries are going to get progressively worse as I trust the microphone and dictation software more. This first entry is also going to seem far more serious than humorous or entertaining. After all it is my first one and I really am just trying to get used to the software.

It is at this point they would also like to note the ease of using dictation with Microsoft word. The dictation software was clearly built to be used with programs like Microsoft word. However I do have to point out that I am using Microsoft word because the dictation software does not seem to be compatible with Googles Blogger. This is slightly frustrating but I think over time and I’m going to get used to copying and pasting

I have read a few articles on how to build a successful web log and I’m going to throw all of that knowledge away. The problem is that they all talked about having basic guidelines and a general goal to achieve with what you’re trying to bring across to the community. Although none of them suggested using dictation. So I’m going to try going into this heavily using dictation on making only minor adjustments with the keyboard and mouse and so on.

I can tell you right now that this is definitely not easy. Windows 7 comes with its own dictation software. This software also comes with a fairly robust training school for the computer to get used to your voice and how you pronounce certain words and phrases. I would encourage you to try and train your own computer to see some of the interesting things that it can learn.

Even while writing this I have already had to correct a few bugs that I’ve come across. One recurring instance is that whenever I say windows 7 it will automatically try to spell out seven instead of using the number. I understand why the software would want to do this but it definitely poses a few roadblocks while I’m writing this blog. Even while trying to say the word blog it constantly wants to correct the word blog. It’s replacing it with either block or a log or similar words I’m not sure if this is because it’s a rarely used or simply because it sounds very similar other words. I’m still not quite sure how to put in various characters such as quotations. I guess it will all come with time and and with the more research I do into dictation.

So with all that being said I’m going to be people’s feedback. If this somehow becomes wildly popular I’m going to want suggestions from the community on interesting things you may notice and see that you want me to comment on.

I’ll start the ball rolling with a list of things that I’m going to try and add at the end of each entry that might interest every one. Some of the ideas that have floating around would be me telling you what issues I may have had in dictating that particular entry, specifically the technical issues not in my own writer’s block. I am also thinking of all keeping time so people can see how long it takes to dictate an entry compared to how long it would take to type an entry.

So here we are at the end of my first entry. I can’t say that it was terribly easy, but I would have to attribute that more to my lack of preparedness than to the software itself.