Hey all. It’s about 3:30am right now and I am still awake. Why, you ask?  I’m goin to the beach in a few hours, AND I got a crackbe…  er, blackberry.  But it’s mostly the beach keeping me up.

So I fell asleep pretty much right after I wrote that sentence. It is now six fortyfive am and I’m in the back seat on the way to the Outer Banks. My sister has some odd country on the stereo and my “noise-cancelling” earbuds are not pumping out “Virginia Coalition” loudly enough, or securely enough I guess.

This blackberry thing. I kinda like it. It took me a few minutes to adapt to the size of the keys, but once I got used to it I was fine. I haven’t really had any problems since, have just been flying across the keyboard. The web browser, while sparse in the features department, gets the job done. The media player, another place that RIM (the creators of the Blackberry line of products) took a minimalist approach, could also use some attention. It does get the job done, nonetheless. Earpiece and speakerphone quality are actually two places that the unit exceeded my expectations. Word on the street is that with the new BB operating system, which comes out soonish, both the browser and media player, among other things, get some much needed attention. :-)

This year, my sister has decided to document our trip to NC. She has taken maybe five photos so far, and I am pretty sure she has missed her mark on the majority of her shots. At one point she took a random picture (with the flash on) and my mom asked her what it was of, thinking Anne had seen something neither of us had. Turns out she hadn’t: her response was an over-excited “TREES!”. I sometimes wonder about that twin of mine…

The presence of a camera this early in the trip gets me somewhat excited. If any of you remember my trip last year, you will remember that I returned home with some pretty sweet photographs. I did some research on the area we visit each year and read about some pretty cool-sounding places that aren’t too far away. Only real question is will I really want to sacrifice a day on the beach to go shoot some photographs? Guess that will just have to depend on how badly I burn this year.

In my diabetic life, nothing has really happened. I am due for an A1c drawing, but just haven’t been able to fit it in anywhere. Now that I’m done working the Villanova summer music program and will be home for a few weeks, though, I should be good to go. I did have an incident on Thursday that might be good to note. I had a thigh site on, a rare occurrence these days. Turns out my thigh sucks. The insulin wasn’t getting absorbed after day two, and I ended up around five eighty while I was at work. Woof. Needless to say, that was fixed. And then I somehow ended up going low a few hours later. It sure is nice to be on a see-saw again. :-p

Well my thumbs are actually getting a little tired, so I’m going to read for a bit. Maybe pass out for a bit in the process. Take it easy ya’ll, cause life’s just too short.

_Tom.

PS: My mother sometimes drives like a crazy person. And my twin is tone-deaf. I guess my mom’s driving is simply because she is following my dad, who is driving pretty erratically. As usual. But that doesn’t change the fact that Twin can’t sing. Shame.