Nothings Broken

Today was the boys first day of 1st grade. He was so excited Sunday night. He had so much fun getting his backpack ready for school. I still am in shock at the fact that I have a 1st grader!!

He woke up extra early on Monday just in time to be ready. He was up by 6:00 am and he didn’t start school until 8:38 am. We had to park about a block away from the school there was no parking nearby, I really hate school traffic. I stood in line with him until it was time to go into the classroom. His teacher had come around greeting the kids and meeting the parents while we waited. The boy started getting a little anxious about the whole situation, it finally hit him that he would be there all day and I was not able to stay with him. I was taking so many pictures of him, I think that he started to get annoyed after awhile. I managed to get some good ones despite his protest.

I got to meet a couple of his friends from his kindergarten class that he would be in class this year, they all wanted to pose for pictures. So freaking cute!, they all stood around and talked about their new backpacks and shoes. One of the little boys was already invited kids over to his house, lol poor mom.

Have you every had anyone ask you a question that will make you look cruel if you answer it? Today I experienced the same feeling that my husband gets if I ask him if I look fat in my jeans.

It was truly a loaded question, no real way of answering tactfully. It started off as a statement and then the person took my silence as my agreement to the statement, LMAO. Silence is awkward.

The statement was : “Gaaawd, I am such a b-i-t-c-h today, huh Ana?” She spelled it out just like that too, which I found very annoying. There was about 30 seconds of silence before she made another statement. “O-M-G (yes spelled out), you did not reply so it must be true” LMAO…. The only thing I could do at that point is to turn around and say I did not hear a word she said because of my desk fan and my headset. I was laughing in my head

From now on I will no longer be asking my husband loaded questions. Its really annoying. LOL

Advice to Everyone: Get all the side effects of a cortisone injection before you get it. I am in agony right now, with my weak hand. I cant even change the baby. So Sad. I hope I get better by tomorrow.

Here is the Pandigital Novel. I bought it from Bed, Bath and Beyond. I had been wanting an ereader for a while. I was not prepared to pay 200 bucks to “just” read books. I found that the Novel was built with android and that was a definite plus. It was already made to have the ability to check your e-mail and browse the internet, half of the work was already done.

I researched for ways to modify the Novel to make it an Android pad. I used the help provided by Slate Droid to turn my Novel into my baby, I mean an Android pad. I am able to do some many things with it.

It was not hard, it was just frustrating at first, but once I read and understood the goal, I realized that I was doing it right the whole time. The first step was to create a Back and a Home button. I used the Volume Button hack to do this. I also had to install an alternate home launcher since Android was already installed but Novel was using its own interface.

Think of it like using wordpress themes, the look changes but it’s still using the same code. In this case you are removing the Novel home screen, thus having access to the other programs. It involved using Command Prompt and pushing some files over to the Novel. I kept getting frustrated because I thought I was doing it wrong because it really did not give me a confirmation that it was completing or doing anything at all. But I ended up adding the code more than once, but everything turned out A-ok.

I was able to get panda home installed as well Google voice and the most important of them all Google market.

I was able to get access to the market. From there I was able to get Pandora and Slacker! I am totally happy.

Google Voice!!

I am able to use Google Voice anywhere I can get Wifi!!!!!! I am looking into making my cell into a hot spot.

Here is a shot with half the apps installed

Here is the working sliding notification bar

Here is a list of all my books on Aldiko

Yes, that is a Kathy Griffin book, she is funny as hell! LOL

Twitter and Four Square

Landscape Home Screen

Portrait Home Screen

Well I am off to bed, I am exhausted.

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