Well...sort of. Maybe. :-)
I've absolutely loved this, and I really think it's one of the best purchases I've made in a long time, even though Jane says I've become a sheep, following the herd. I'm okay with that, given it really is (to me at least) a handy tool. It also has the best reception I've ever had on any phone, even when I'm down a few bars. No dropped calls, no freezing, no funkitudery like my last cell phone kept having.
I did get a little app-happy. I've culled it down, however to useful ones (like a budget minder one and a grocery store list that allows me to group my lists into separate stores -- i.e. WinCo or Fred Meyer -- so it's not all on one long list; I did have to buy that one to get the full features, but it was worth the upgrade) as well as some fun ones...like the full version of Wolfenstein3D. That was worth $1.99. I also found a couple of really cool ones that allow you to mix together sounds (birds, ocean, thunderstorms, meditation music, and so on) -- and even music from the songs you've uploaded to the phone's iPod -- which has given me a lot of really nice combos for yoga in the mornings.
The phone does have a funny quirk to it, though. The Voice Dial feature is new on the 3Gs phones, and has a few bugs to work out. For instance, if I say, "Call Dad" the female Stephen Hawking voice will say, "Calling Asha Kamath." So I'll try again. "Call Dad." "Calling Pay My Bill." Sometimes it works right off the bat -- other times, in the fifty-'leven tries, I could have manually dialed the number twelve times over.
So it has moved from "new toy" status to "useful tool". (There's a joke lurking around in there, I know...like "kind of like my brother" -- [hee hee ha ha you're the best brother ever, Andrew!] -- but I'll let you guys come up with them).
Lately, I've been crashing around 8:30 in the evening, which has then caused me to wake up -- fully -- around 4:30. I've discovered that if I doze past that, I end up really groggy and I have those uber-weird dreams I call "oversleep dreams." So I've been getting up and beginning my day, and I have to say I really like having a lazier morning...but I still find I can't quite get out of the house on time. After coming to work at 8:30 am for the last seven years, the mental shift to 8:00 am has been sticky. But I can say it's been really nice to wake up feeling fully-rested and on my own, and not have to do the snooze alarm tango.
If you look up in the address bar of your window, you'll now see, on the right side of the box, a little orange square. Blogger now allows for RSS feeds, which means you will be automatically updated when I have a new post...which means I don't have to email everyone all the time. (I realize most of you reading this know what this is, but there may be a few that don't). By subscribing (you'll get two choices: Atom or RSS; you want RSS), it will also create a little manila folder with the orange stripes. You can place it on your browser tool bar, or in your bookmarks. If you click on it, then links to my posts will be in there. The top one will always be the newest one.
I can't say I'll update more often...but I think I might trying that. Because then I won't do the marathon War and Peace posts and can shave them down to...oh -- Anna Karenina. Who knows? With practice, I might be able to sum it all up in a limerick or -- for a more classy way -- a haiku.
That is all.
-- H
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