Had lunch with my old college friends, Steve and Delfin at an Irish Pub around the corner. It was Steve (Scan-man)’s birthday yesterday. Great catching up with them, the last time we saw each other was at Miguel and Jennifer’s Wedding a few weeks ago.

So I feel like I could write random stuff in my blog, every day/week/whatever, just so I get in the regular habit of writing. But it just seems like such a waste and not very fulfilling or encouraging for me, not having any way of getting images into the site easier. As it is, I have to use my scrappy little all-in-one HP office office printer to scan all my images into the machine at home, and then upload them to an FTP location where I can access them anywhere I have a connection. The all-in-one reliable, but really old. (“Dad, why don’t we get a wireless printer?” my son says)

Without a camera or some sort of portable scanner on me all the time, it’s hard to post pictures on the blog unless I’m at home. And I don’t get to get on the computer at home very much because of chores and time with the family. Of course, I’d love it if I could get pictures off my camera-phone and onto the web painlessly, but Verizon crippled it, so that it’s not a simple file download from memory to another device. Verizon forces you to have a data plan, because that’s the only way to send your picture OUT of your camera, (via MMS).

Sophia’s convinced Apple is going to come out with a Verizon iPhone, so she’s waiting for that to come out. Now if that baby worked the way I hope it can, there’s a device that would be great to get all sorts of pictures into the blog. Ian’s iPod Touch is great, but without a camera or a cellular connection, it’s not that useful outside of the home, which is where I’d want/need to use it.

Which reminds me, SHAME on Weatherproof for using a picture of President Obama on a recent trip wearing one of their jackets to hawk the brand. Just so that Weatherproof does not benefit from any of my inadvertent SEO goodness, here are links to some of their competitors: North Face, L.L. Bean, Eddie Bauer, Land’s End, Patagonia, American Eagle,