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	Stardate: 20190621.2307
	Location: Family Room
	Input Device: Cybah Rig
	Audio: Dog barking off in the distance
	Visual: Fujitsu Face-Mounted Display
	Energy: 30%
	Mental: 25%
	Emotional: Tired

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	It's already after 11PM and I just finished
	working. There goes my Friday night. Well, that's
	what happens when I'm on call. I just don't like
	that I'm in this standby mode and can't really seem
	to get into much of anything without worrying about
	being interrupted and even if I don't worry, I'm
	too tired to really do much of anything. This
	seems to be the pattern whenever I go on call. At
	least it is for 2 weeks every 2 months or so.

	In this "standby" mode, I've been doing too much
	looking at stuff to buy online. Every June, I cash
	out 2 weeks of my vacation time since I don't use
	it much and I accumulate too fast. This cash out
	is usually used for whatever...usually equipment
	upgrades, electronic gadgets, vacation
	spending money, whatever. This year, I didn't
	ear-mark it or anything and it's been burning a
	hole in my pocket. So I have been going online to
	see what is out there while in standby mode. This
	was triggered by going to some gadget store in
	Santa Monica that's like a Sharper Image or
	Brookstone kinda store. Overpriced gadgets that
	nobody really needs, some of which is kinda
	interesting.

	In this store, I ran across this projector that
	caught my eye. It was called a Puppy Cube and ran
	Android, which was projected onto a table. You can
	touch/swipe/interact with the projection like it
	was a tablet, but it was just a projected image on
	the table, kinda like those laser projected
	keyboards they used to sell for cell phones/PDAs.
	I never got to try one of those and they seemed a
	bit gimmicky when they came out.

	I played around with the projector for a bit and
	mostly tested typing, which seemed to work pretty
	accurately, but felt strange since I was just
	tapping the table. I probably couldn't touch type
	without looking at the keyboard. Acually, it kinda
	reminded me of typing on a touchscreen, which I
	never really enjoyed. I would much rather have a
	hardware keyboard.

	I didn't mess around with it for too long but I
	thought it was pretty neat, so I took a photo to
	research later.

	Well, I did some research and this thing is
	expensive...like $999US! Also, it runs an older
	version of Android and the manufacturer's website
	has not been available since April. This Puppy
	Cube was one of those crowdfunded devices and there
	didn't seem to be too much activity going on when
	they were raising funds...well, not as much as the
	Gemini PDA.

	The device has lots of other cool features, like
	being a short throw projector, various input
	options, built in speakers, bluetooth, wifi, etc.
	After I got thinking about it, I couldn't really
	see where I would need to use this. Yeah, cool toy
	but yeah.

	So from there, I start wondering what else is out
	there and I start getting that itch. That gadget
	itch that I want to keep scratching...but then I
	catch myself and have to apply some self-restraint.
	I can easily get caught up in that and end up
	making unwise purchases and wasting time with the
	research. I have too much junk as it is and don't
	need to add to the pile. And in the late nite, TV
	infomercial, Home Shopping Club state that I'm in,
	I'm in a dangerous place.

	So I jack out of the web, jack in to the gopher and
	create some plain text content. I can't really buy
	anything here so I should be safe for the time
	being.

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