Category — Organization

PalmInfocenter.com: Palm Treo 700w Now Available from Verizon

Which one of us made a New Year’s resolution to become more organized?????

Here is your chance….

Palm and Verizon today announced the Palm Treo 700w smartphone goes on sale tomorrow, January 5th. The Treo 700w smartphone is the first Treo smartphone to run the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system. It is also the first Treo to operate on Verizon’s high speed EV-DO data network.

Use a PDA to keep up with doctor appointments, after-school activities, goals, phone#’s, birthdays or whatever….Get a palm and feel better about yourself

PalmInfocenter.com: Rumor: Palm Treo 700w to Launch Jan 5th

PalmInfocenter.com: Palm Says 3 New Treo Smartphones in 2006
Palm CEO Ed Colligan stated in todays Palm’s earnings conference call that Palm will announce three new smartphones next year, in addition to the Treo 700w. Read on for more details.

“We’ll roll out the Palm Treo 700w smartphone based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and we’ll announce three additional new smartphones during calendar year 2006.” said said Ed Colligan. During the conference call he further stated that these new models will debut with new industrial designs and at different price points. They will also implement next-generation radio technologies.

Colligan also stated that one of these models was designed specifically for a large international carrier and may not ever see a US release.

This announcement confirms earlier rumors about new Treo products in 2006. That report stated Palm plans a Treo 700p (similar model as the 700w running Palm OS Garnet) as well as two new designs code-named “Hollywood” and “Lowrider”.

On my previous post you saw how much I love when my wife cooks Thanksgiving dinner for just the three of us the day before Thanksgiving. Mommy Bacchus (MB) took off work on Wednesay and started cooking Tuesday night. I told her about my post and how much I was looking forward to it when I saw all the pots and pans flying around the kitchen. I am banned from the kitchen during cooking unless it’s to clean something. MB is a “Food Snobb.” Nothing I cook is ever good enough since she can always do it better. I left for work Wednesday smelling all the fix’ins being prepared and anticipating the end results.

While at work I get a call from MB asking me to pick up some liquor on the way home. I asked, for who? We don’t drink a great deal of liquor. She said her mother was coming over for dinner. Now this didn’t bother me. My mother-in-law frequently comes over the night before thanksgiving and cooks a bunch of desserts at our house because she likes my wife’s kitchen (yes she is also a “food snobb”). Usually she doesn’t show up until 9 or 10 at night after the rest of us have already had dinner, but I was curious why MB was asking me to bring liquor.

I got off work early and stopped by the liquor store and picked up a couple of bottles of this and that. Almost got killed in the store parking lot when some drunk was arguing with his girlfriend/wife while backing their car our of a parking space and not looking back. I got home and before I could put my bags down MB is asking for the liquor. I knew something was up so I asked what was the rush. MB stated that her mother was on her way with some other people.

Oh GOD NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I went into a panic and tried to compose myself. Right away I noticed MB rushing around the kitchen just like she was preparing for the President to dine with us. Everything had to be just right and this was exactly what I was trying to avoid.

Stay tuned for more –”How to destroy a dinner in 30 seconds”

Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays. I love sitting and having a pleasant meal and being surrounded around family that loves me. It always gives me a reason to be thankful for the previous year and reflect upon goals I have yet to achieve. Unfortunately, the one thing I hate is “House Hopping.”

My favorite Thanksgiving celebration was one where I didn’t necessarily spend with the majority of my family. It was a year where Mommy Bacchus (MB) and I decided to not travel to visit our respective families. Instead, we stayed in our college town and invited an international student from Africa as our guest. The three of us sat, ate and enjoyed explaining American football to our visitor. There were no attitudes, emotional outbreaks, food emergencies, stress or drunken cousins to spoil the evening. Although I missed my family, I didn’t miss all the extra stuff that has a tendency to ruin the holiday experience. Since Bacchus Jr. (BJ) was born, MB has refrained from cooking at home, and we have instead scheduled a packed day visiting friends and family. The problem with doing this is that everyone wants to eat around the same time of day, Midday. So how do you visit four different homes and eat four different times during the hours of 12pm-4pm? If you don’t eat enough at one house, the host gets offended. Eat too much at the first house, and then you don’t have an appetite for the rest of the day. Fail to eat early in the day, and you may get to a house where there’s nothing left but picked over parts of the turkey you don’t like. Or on the other hand, you may visit a house that planned to have dinner at 2pm and they just put the turkey in the oven at 1pm (Saw this on Gray’s Anatomy last night). Since we started “House Hopping” I have given up planning to watch any particular football game in one location. One of my thanks has to go to my DVR. I can record all the games and watch them at my leisure that evening or over the weekend.

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Flickr: Photos from Lord Bacchus

I started a flicker account. How cool is this. Come check out my photos….

The Organized Parent Storefront

A nice website with lots of cute organizing products for parenting.

Website describes the founding below:

“In 2003, company founder Stephanie Vozza had an extraordinarily disorganized week. After making a second trip to her second grader’s school to drop off the sack lunch he needed to bring on a field trip, she sat in her car and wondered: Why could she easily juggle a dozen projects with a dozen clients and a dozen deadlines before she had her children, but she couldn’t remember to pack a brown bag lunch?

That’s when the idea for The Organized Parent was born. And our mission is simple: To make your job easier by offering stylish products that make you feel more professional and in control of your daily tasks. Just like you do in the workplace.

Most who know me know that I use a palm pilot PDA religiously to organize my life. I started using them several years ago when I was using public transportation to get to work. Like most people at the time, I kept a work calendar at the office and a personal calendar at home. But when I started taking the bus to work, I needed to know what I had on my calendar at work so I could determine if this was a day I needed to drive or dress in a certain manner.

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I was watching my morning news program where I saw a home organization expert discuss how she organized someone’s study. On a bookshelf I saw a rack of plastic cases that seemed to contain collections of photos. It was sleek and neat and I just had to find our more. Like most people of have 1000’s of old photos thrown in a box. It was a very cute way to display and organize a group of photos for visitors to see. I tracked down the organizer and forwarded me to imago products that offer both the photopods and the racks that hold them.

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