6:00AM
The alarm goes of again; this time its just a couple of beeps from On-Time-RX reminding me to take my allergy medicine.

6:25AM
Another alarm in DateBk5 goes off. I head out to my car for the five-minute drive to the gym. I love the cute little DateBk5 icon with the person on the treadmill. You can sort of see it if you look closely at Figure B.

FIGURE B

DateBk5 lets me set nice icons for my various activities.

7:15AM
Back in the house. Thank heavens for Curves; I've never liked exercise but for 30 minutes I can stand anything. Time to take another blood sugar feeding, log it into GlucoPilot, and log the workout into the diary feature of Calorie King, shown in Figure C.

FIGURE C

Calorie King helps me keep track of my health.

7:20AM
I check my CLIE and open up Checklist. It lists what I'm planning to wear today, as you can see in Figure D.

FIGURE D

I'm prepared because I know what I'm going to wear.

I usually plan for two weeks at a time. Okay, I'll admit it, the term anal-retentive has been bandied about by some family and friends on occasion. The way I see see it, though, is since I'm not a morning person, I don't want to waste time or energy on the morning trying to decide what to wear. That would take an additional 10-15 minutes of sleep I'd prefer to spend sleeping. I'd rather know that there is a clean outfit, including accessories ready to wear.

On Saturday or Sunday, I look at my schedule and see what events or appointments are coming up on the calendar, check the wardrobe application to see when I last wore an item, and whether it's in the cleaners or needs to be mended, altered, or whatever.

8:15AM
I'm in the car. Before starting the car, I take out my mobile phone and put on my headset. My mother, sister, and college-age daughters know this is often the best time to get in touch with me at the start of the day.

8:50AM
I'm docking my company-issue IBM ThinkPad, and log on, and check my mobile phone to see if it needs a charge. If so, I plug it in to the charger I keep in the office.

I take my iPaq out, turn it on, and input my security code to unlock the Credant security software. It takes about two minutes to go through its unlock sequence. If I ever lost the iPaq, in order to get any use out of it, you'd have to do a hard reset. The security on my CLIE is quite as rigorous, even though it doesn't access the company network. I do secure that as well.

What amazes me is how many people use security systems on their handhelds but back everything up to the expansion card that they leave in the handheld. That's sort of like locking the door, but leaving the key in the lock.

The laptop boots and I log into the network. ActiveSync connects to the iPaq and starts syncing. It's a good morning; ActiveSync connects seamlessly. It can be annoyingly temperamental at times.

I turn my attention to my CLIE and connect it to its charging cable. I sync my CLIE to my home computer and to my desktop Compaq computer at work. I check my calendar for any appointments and to see what priority tasks are scheduled for the day. I use the To Do view in DateBk5 and check off a couple of items that were completed yesterday. Open up PDAsoftnet's Wardrobe program and log in what I'm wearing today.