Phone home, on the fence, email out there, fast fail

Over the weekend the home button on my Iphone 4 stopped working.  I would push and push and nothing would happen.  I was like WTF????  I hopped on the internet and as is often the case, found out I was far from alone with this problem.  What surprised me was the solution I found.

Various people said they fixed the issue by cleaning out the data port on the bottom of the phone.  This was done various ways, blowing it out with air, vacuuming it out or brushing it with a toothbrush.  This seemed very funny and odd that this would do anything to fix the home button but I had nothing to lose.

I had a small amount of compressed air left so I blasted it into the data port for the hell of it, not thinking this possibly could fix a damn thing.  Imagine my amazement when the home button started working.  It has continued to work just fine since the blow out.  Weird huh?

Yesterday I tried to call my neighbor regarding hanging the sonic bark device on the fence.  She didn’t answer the phone but later responded to a text message saying she was fine with hanging the device on the fence.  She said that the dogs don’t seem to bark when they are home (not true in the least).  So we will see what happens.  The dogs were left outside the entire night last night. I am so over having neighbors.

I have received email from three or four companies that evidently use Epsilon for their email blasts.  Evidently somebody managed to snag customer email addresses from Epsilon. Nice huh?  The notifications from the companies all sound pretty much the same.  Your email address may have been compromised and you may receive spam on that address, our bad.    Sure it was only email addresses but just imagine if it was SS numbers or CC info?  That risk is always out there and consumers have no control over how diligent these companies are in their security practices.  It’s just one big blind leap of faith.

Last night Ali and I went over to the track to do more speed work.  The plan was to mix it up and do some shorter but faster intervals.  Well after only one interval Ali said she wasn’t feeling well.  We tried to continue through it but there wasn’t much point, neither she or I were getting much out of it.  We’ll reboot and go at it hard again next week.