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captainsblogYou may ask yourself,
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? ...am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
My god!...what have I done?
I replaced the dead mobile with an iPhone, is what.
I'm usually not one to invoke karma, but I doubt the timing would ever have been better. The bloody 8-gig $99 version of the thing just came out, but not today, so the long lines weren't there; I happen to use the provider in this country authorized for the beastie; a straight replacement of the dead phone probably would have cost at least half that, best as I can tell, with maybe a rebate gift card for some of it coming in a few months; my current phone proved incapable of retrieving office or gmail when I was away last week; my .mp3 player's 2 gigs are all gagged; so if there was ever gonna be a time, it was here and now.
It's going to take a lot of getting used to, though. Even though I've seen the thing a billion times second-handedly, actually using it is pretty foreign. And that's just the phone and browser features (good thing I knew what "Safari" was or I still would be looking for hidden buttons).
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As for everything around the new phone, that's kinda complicated, too.
I knew, even before Emily entered the house, that she would be heading straight to High Disappointment Gear when she saw that I got a new toy and she didn't. (The pre-deranged plan with Mom was for her to get my existing phone- a year-plus-old Motorola Razr with camera and a few extra gizmos her Maytag 2006 model didn't have. I couldn't have swapped out Em's for mine if I'd wanted to, since hers was missing at the time I went to the store.) After a relatively short round of teeth-gnashing, we reached an acceptable peace. Mom will get her existing phone- a slightly newer Nokia with camera- and Em will get mine.
That problem solved, the remainder of appliances in the house began expressing their jealousy.
Emily went to turn on the television in the living room. No signal. It needed adjustment. Seconds later, the next complaint: the Time Warner remote wasn't remoting- not turning on the cable box, nor the telly, nor nuthin. It got dropped a day or so ago, and I need to go over there anyway tomorrow, so no harm there.
Next, the DVD remote decided to join the party. That just needed batteries. For now, anyway.
Finally (I hope), Em went out just now to start the grill. Even the outdoor appliances are snitting! (We needed a new tank of propane since last week, I was gently reminded. We now have one.)
Whatever you do, don't tell the indoor plumbing or the cars. We kinda need those:)
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? ...am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
My god!...what have I done?
I replaced the dead mobile with an iPhone, is what.
I'm usually not one to invoke karma, but I doubt the timing would ever have been better. The bloody 8-gig $99 version of the thing just came out, but not today, so the long lines weren't there; I happen to use the provider in this country authorized for the beastie; a straight replacement of the dead phone probably would have cost at least half that, best as I can tell, with maybe a rebate gift card for some of it coming in a few months; my current phone proved incapable of retrieving office or gmail when I was away last week; my .mp3 player's 2 gigs are all gagged; so if there was ever gonna be a time, it was here and now.
It's going to take a lot of getting used to, though. Even though I've seen the thing a billion times second-handedly, actually using it is pretty foreign. And that's just the phone and browser features (good thing I knew what "Safari" was or I still would be looking for hidden buttons).
----
As for everything around the new phone, that's kinda complicated, too.
I knew, even before Emily entered the house, that she would be heading straight to High Disappointment Gear when she saw that I got a new toy and she didn't. (The pre-deranged plan with Mom was for her to get my existing phone- a year-plus-old Motorola Razr with camera and a few extra gizmos her Maytag 2006 model didn't have. I couldn't have swapped out Em's for mine if I'd wanted to, since hers was missing at the time I went to the store.) After a relatively short round of teeth-gnashing, we reached an acceptable peace. Mom will get her existing phone- a slightly newer Nokia with camera- and Em will get mine.
That problem solved, the remainder of appliances in the house began expressing their jealousy.
Emily went to turn on the television in the living room. No signal. It needed adjustment. Seconds later, the next complaint: the Time Warner remote wasn't remoting- not turning on the cable box, nor the telly, nor nuthin. It got dropped a day or so ago, and I need to go over there anyway tomorrow, so no harm there.
Next, the DVD remote decided to join the party. That just needed batteries. For now, anyway.
Finally (I hope), Em went out just now to start the grill. Even the outdoor appliances are snitting! (We needed a new tank of propane since last week, I was gently reminded. We now have one.)
Whatever you do, don't tell the indoor plumbing or the cars. We kinda need those:)