War@Home, Stress@Work

Okay, before folks start thinking about any wars going on at home, let me clarify that everything is okay, no need to worry. It's the title of the new TV series I'm sure I'll be watching this season. OC just finished and it came right after so we decided to give it a few minutes to see if it was any good. Yep it was. :-) Go see my blog entry at BarangayAmerika for details.

Sorry to have been out of touch for a couple of weeks sobrang dami kong trabaho, actually I feel this is a break right now not thinking about it. Even if I still have a lot of deliverables left. I've been sleeping at 3am for the past couple of days to finish quite a bit of work --- don't think this will make me rich, wala kaming overtime pay --- just to be able to catch up at least but I feel like I'm still in the same amount of shit (sorry for the word) since I started. I have not even been able to open my personal email the past couple of weeks and have been dreading doing so because I might see there is already a ton of emails I need to respond to. Gosh! I hope it gets better soon, I don't know how much more stress I can take. To add to it, my manager called me for being late at one of our meetings since I was at another meeting that ran over.  Maybe I should get one of those Treo's or Blackberry's? Recently, the only way I can remember anything is if it is in my Outlook calendar. Sometimes I feel like need a reminder to remind myself that I need to remember something.

Anyway, there is a loophole. Outlook is only useful if you have your laptop with you. When you're at a lunch meeting like the one where I was, I didn't know I had another meeting right after. Shoot! Another problem with it is early in the mornings, you can't even tell if you have a meeting or not unless you turn on your computer and check your calendar. It is just tedious and I'm whiny. Well, our work email requires VPN access and the bootup process isn't really quick.

I hope that there is something that would not require me to dock the gadget to get the calendar, the idea of docking to get data is still kludge. It means you still need to be remember to get your reminders.

I know, I know I'm just trying to justify my likings for yet another gadget. "You need a thousand reasons to justify something you like --- you only need one for something you don't". Or is it the other way around? Now I'm confused. But I haven't figured out if getting another gadget to stick in my purse is a good idea nor do I know which model is okay and does it solve my problem and if it is money's worth spending, please I'd love suggestions.

Comments

[Kyo]

Gizmo suggestion.

How about one of those cellphones that has Outlook in em? Actually, it doesn't even have to be Outlook. Even my tsipipay Sony Ericsson T-616 can sync with both MS-Outlook and the Mac's iCalendar/Addressbook.

Tamad nga lang akong mag-sync.

-kyo-