{"id":7213,"date":"2012-04-07T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T07:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2012-08-08T22:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:27:52","slug":"updatingrepairingteachinglearninghealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7213","title":{"rendered":"Updating\/Repairing\/Teaching\/Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updating:<\/strong>
\nHas it really been a week since I wrote anything?<\/p>\n

Soz.<\/p>\n

The hiatus is not an indicator that things have not been going on; things have been. Going on. I have been mentally busy.<\/p>\n

The new contract brings challenges, involves working with some very interesting, capable people, and it shows signs of being extremely positive and worthwhile.<\/p>\n

Repairing:<\/strong>
\nYesterday evening I helped rescue a damsel in distress who needed an urgent repair to her saxophone, as she is gigging tonight.<\/p>\n

And I managed to squeeze in a visit to a new Chinese restaurant, in between the saxophone repair facilitating to-ing and fro-ing.<\/p>\n

The key word there is ‘facilitating’; I didn’t do the repair. I just knew of a man, who lives in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside, who could repair it. And he did. At 7.30pm on a Good Friday evening.<\/p>\n

There were smiles and was much relief all round.<\/p>\n

I have been invited to the gig this evening.<\/p>\n

Teaching:<\/strong>
\nI have a new mobile phone. It is another Nexus One.<\/p>\n

My last one had an unfortunate coming together with gravity and concrete, which resulted in it not working.<\/p>\n

Vodafone sent it away to be repaired, but they didn’t fix it, they just sent me a new one.<\/p>\n

Because of the way the Nexus works, all of the data I had on my old phone, my global contact list\/address book, my emails, the photographs I’d taken in Texas, applications I’d installed…<\/p>\n

They were all still there!<\/p>\n

Yay!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the user dictionary had to be taught all of my key (and every-day) words and phrases.<\/p>\n

I do a lot of my Tweeting from my phone, so I had to teach it phrases and shortcuts such as:<\/p>\n