Riparian Life

I saw the night heron for the first time in a long time today. He was huddled on a log permanently afloat in the Platte at Confluence Park. I would have thought he'd have headed south by now. Other life was very much in abundance. Unfortunately it came in the form of a hatch of little gnats. I went through cloud after cloud of them on my bike. Fortunately, I had my glasses tight to my skull. A run-in between a gnat and my eyeball a couple days previous had me rubbing my eye and half-blinded for a good ways on my commute home.

Heat has also returned to my bedroom. That's literal heat, mind you. When Tony and Risa had been here, we turned on the heater and it popped and died. The repairman made his visit today and restored things to working order. He even put in the peephole I had requested long, long ago. Someone had evidently pried out the peephole in my door many moons ago. I had made a request to have it replaced about the same time. Just now it has been. Sheesh. Better late than never, I suppose.

In completely unrelated news, I have decided on the G1 over the iPhone. A recent unrestricted hands-on by Engadget sealed the deal for me. The G1 is good at the things I really want it to do, with the exception of web browsing, and its primary weaknesses they point out (camera and GPS) are not so important to me. The phone and its plan are cheaper than the iPhone and I'd rather go with T-Mobile than AT&T. It also has some very important things that the iPhone doesn't, namely a physical keyboard, an open platform, voice dialing, and a removeable battery. Now I just have to figure out how to get my hands on one...