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So now that I have played with my iPhone 3g all I can say is WTF!?!? Apparently Apple doesn’t want you to use your iPhone to listen to music via Bluetooth. Why the he’ll would they not include all the Bluetooth profiles? The only profile available is the headset profile. You aren’t allowed to sync with your apps of choice, but you can sync with Apple’s choices…sigh. Nothing but Apple can run in the background, in other words you can’t do anything truly useful like instant messaging. You can however choose to receive them as SMS because AT&T can make money that way. It is like Apple wants their customers to jailbrake their iPhones so that they can get what they payed for. Why would a company do that? Do they honestly believe that their shit is so good that people will just live with a device that can do much but can’t because their overlords forbade it? I can live with having to use AT&T even though they have horrible coverage where I live (iCall, save me!), but having my phone crippled because some jackass thinks it provides a future upgrade path that Apple junkies will jump on at the mere mention of an improvement to the current “OS” is something that I have a real issue with. I paid for my iPhone and I want what I paid for. There are plenty of other software imposed limitations that should also be done away with, but I am tired of bitching for now.

My advice to anyone thinking about purchasing an iPhone is be prepared to be on lockdown or be prepared to “liberate” your iPhone from your Apple overlords. I am still on the fence but if Apple turns a deaf ear as it did after the first version then I won’t have to make a choice, Apple will have made it for me. Think different my ass, this reeks of the same bullshit corporations have been dishing out since they had shit to dish out.

Apple is the new Microsoft.

I had my surgery on January 12th. Being put under is the oddest sensation. One minute I am coherent the next I am speaking in Tongues and then I wake up in a strange room surrounded by nurses and doctors that apparently couldn’t hear me even though I was speaking :-/ But after that “body snatchers” part was over the recovery was what I expected. The pain in my back from then incision only lasted 10 days or so. I have pain in my leg still, but the doctors and PTs tell me it will go away over the next few weeks following the surgery. It definitely was a major improvement over the pre-surgery pain, but I am not sure I can tell that I am making that much improvement. I am off the pain killers for the first time since this ordeal started in September of 2006 now I just take my acetaminophen and deal with the pain that is left. I limp and am tilted to my left side, but I do feel better than I did. Now to get rid of this last bit of pain…

Early September I hurt my back. More specifically I developed a bulging disk in my back. OMFG it kills! I have never been in so much fucking pain. I have been living with this pain for a month now and still no real change. Various doctors have prescribed various drugs in varying strengths with similar results…none. The only thing that has helped is freakin’ oxycodone. I have been on a fucking narcotic for the better part of a month and I still am not getting better. It dulls the pain, but I want more than just pain dulling. I want progress.
I am tired of having to struggle to put on my socks sometimes failing all together. I smile to everyone, but I am tired. I can’t even shower on my own… I have my partner to help, but this is a lot to ask of him. I reached a point where I am afraid to ask for things from him because I know that he is tired of helping and I don’t blame him. But I can’t do it myself…
I have found myself crying because I am unable to perform simple tasks or the pain is overwhelming and I don’t see any hope. I have never felt so helpless before. I am hopeful that the physical therapy I have started will help me get through this, but I am concerned that I will be in this position for at least another month.