Fall at Hanging Rock v. 2009

Ko Olina Lagoon Umbrellas

Sunday Cycling

Around maybe a year ago, the reynolda house decided to forego the traditional fairway look of the great lawn, and allowed it to transition into a protected meadow. I didn't know there was such a thing, and I don't know if these black eyed susans were planned or a happy accident, but I am a big fan, and they were the highlight of todays bike ride.

Friday Thoughts:

Runner's world Daily Kick in the Butt:

Keeping my eye on today is about all I'm capable of. And today, I think I'll go for a run.

John Bingham, "Back to the Future," Runner's World

comfort food

I attempted dinner at the Carving Board earlier this week, only to be disappointed by the most confusing signs ever. It's hard to see them in this picture, but trust me.

Thankfully, when I stopped by this evening, the signs were gone, and the doors were open, and they happily served up some sesame chicken, macaroni, and parmesan green beans

YMMMMMMM

Woodward Trail: Montreat

Sunset at GPI

The great outdoors

Today we traversed trails: Woodward, Bryan, and graybeard. Saved
rattlesnake for another day

On Notice: my iphone 3g

it begins at lunch yesterday, when a helpful, well-meaning coworker who I am no longer speaking to suggested that I add my work email account to the email app on my iphone. I already synch my gmail account for mail, contacts and calendar, and thought surely that adding my work account while checking the "do not synch contacts" box was a no-brainer.

could. not. have. been. more. wrong.

first, in order to set this up, I had to take off the 'rigged' contacts/calendar synching from gmail, which I did temporarily to see if I could get this all to work, thinking I would just add it back later

in the process my work account apparently requires passcode-protecting the phone, which is annoying but no biggie, and I picked a super-easy to remember code (no it's not 9999) that I use for a couple other minor accounts.

lets be clear about this right from the start: I KNOW THE PASSCODE, HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN IT, DID NOT CONFUSE IT WITH ANOTHER PIN NUMBER OR CODE! okay, gotit?

everything seemed to work fine except for the small issue of WIPING OUT ALL MY EXISTING CONTACTS (thanks for not warning me this would happen, iphone. I didn't know "don't synch" actually meant "delete all")

but otherwise I thought I could survive for a day until I could get it straightened out.

then this morning I synched it to my laptop to get some new songs.
and plugged it into the car-charger on the way to work.

got to work, and MY PASSCODE, WHICH I DID NOT FORGET AND TYPED IN CORRECTLY did not work.

and locked me out of my phone

I know what you're thinking, I can see it on your face. just like it was on the face of the apple store employees who helpfully walked me through the "what to do when you forget your passcode" instructions.. I DIDN'T FORGET IT!

but clearly this process was my only option, so I got home, started the backup/restore process, which took about an hour total, started to download the new upgrade but since it also means upgrading itunes and probably my entire operating system while I'm at it, I decided to save that for later and get on the road

time to see if this thing worked and... low and behold, the VERY SAME PASSCODE that I tried before now unlocks the phone! just sayin.

so very relieved, I decided to hit the road and put off the 3hr upgrade saga til later; jumped in the car, plugged the phone into the car charger, tried to make a phone call, and OF COURSE! LOCKED OUT AGAIN!

really? really iphone?
are you really doing some sort of strange passcode reset when I try to car-charge you?
because I somehow doubt that even I could completely confuse a no-brainer password like that twice in one day, when it obviously worked previous to plugging it in.
JUST SAYIN..


anyways, this is the sad story of how the iphone has been all stress and no fun, and greatly contributed to my super bad mood tonight

Just Sayin