MP3 Phone Post (244k, 1m18s)

“I want to keep this short because I want the service to be automatically able to transcribe it but I am making a phone post through my new blue tooth headset & I just want to see how the sound comes through & I tried to do this last night but I didn’t realize that LiveJournal has changed to 1 national 800 No. so I couldn’t connect to the local Nos. that I hadn’t used in a long time, but I figured this out this morning & so I’m just checking it out & seeing how it sounds & letting all of you wonderful people hear my voice. Do I have more time? I do. It’s Fri morning & I ma very glad to be near the weekend. I’m doing interpreting tomorrow for a local church & also for a theme park actually, there’re having their deaf awareness day & I’m going to interpret for that in the evening so hopefully the weather won’t be too bad by that time of day & that’s it for now. Bye bye.”

(Automatically transcribed by SpinVox.)

MP3 Phone Post (362k, 1m41s)

This absolutely, totally sucks. When I leave work, I can either jump onto Route 1 real quick, or I can take I-95. Now, normally I take 95, because I’m going home and it makes more sense to go that way. But today I have to drive to Baltimore, and for some reason I still took 95. So I have wasted about an hour by making that mistake. I am still sitting on the Beltway, trying to get to the Wilson Bridge, and it sucks a LOT. I left work about 45 minutes early because I wanted to get going and get to this event that I’m doing this weekend, and I can’t believe I did this. It would have saved me SO much time to take Route 1, and this is just ridiculous that traffic is this bad. Welcome to the DC area, folks. Because very few places have traffic this bad that you can get stuck for so long in such a short span of miles - FOR NO REASON. It’s not that there’s an accident, it’s not that there’s, I don’t know, a speed trap or something, no - it’s just normal that you’re totally stuck and it just sucks so bad. And it’s my fault, I’m the one who went the wrong way, but I did want to get going and I managed to completely waste about an hour. I’m not even up to Route 1 yet. So I completely wasted a bunch of time, and I figured what else should I do but make a Phone Post? So there it is. Take care, kids. Bye.

MP3 Phone Post (711k, 3m30s)

I haven’t recorded a phone post in awhile, but I felt like doing one rather than tapping it out on my Sidekick while it’s fresh in my mind.

I just finished visiting the local Curves, which is a gym. Curves is a women-only gym, and it’s not anything like what I was expecting — it’s basically just a big room with a couple of hydraulic machines and just some … little pads where you kind of step to the beat in between stations, or something. It seems okay — it seems nice. I would probably be among one of the younger people there, although more people started showing up while I was talking with the lady. The lady didn’t really have a lot to say, but she described how they do it. They don’t really have any classes, they don’t really have– you can’t really extend your workout very easily. And I need classes — not for specific targeted things, but because I have no idea really how to exercise after being sedentary for so long, or even my whole life, that I don’t know what to do.

The other problem is the cost — it is $150 down. She said that you can also– she indicated that there is also a $75 down option that she wasn’t supposed to be telling me about, or something. So maybe I will sign up next month, if at all. But then — it’s $40 a month if you sign up for a one-year contract, and $50 a month if you’re doing it month-to-month, and on the month-to-month you don’t get the privilege to go to other locations, you just have to use the one where you are. Mine is a couple of miles from work, in Alexandria. It’s not very far, but I could theoretically want to use a different one. But it’s just — it’s a lot more expensive than I was expecting, and I assume all gyms are going to be more expensive than I was expecting, or than I’m even really interested in doing.

But I don’t think I will exercise without a monetary component, so what I’m thinking is, maybe I will– for every time I work out, I’ll put $5 into my travel fund or my gift fund or my buy-something-for-me fund, or whatever it is … from my own money, of course. And I’ll keep notes, and when I’ve worked out ten times, on my own home machine, or if I actually use the gym at work (which I’m not keen on doing), for every ten times I work out I’ll put $50 in my gift or travel fund. So we’ll see — maybe that’ll work. Curves is just *really* expensive — that’s a lot more than I was expecting … $480 a year is a lot.

So we’ll see. I’m not too sure what I’m going to do, but those are some ideas.

Transcribed by my wonderful phone post transcribin’ mother