3/19/10

Well, I'm still among the living. I have not yet tasted the Kool-Aid. The pearl is in the river. My hovercraft is full of eels. In other words, I am still using the broke-assed Dingleberry. Due to (tee hee, I said doo doo) circumstances, we did not go to the AT&T store to buy me an i-Phone. Juan would think I'd be somewhere on the emotional spectrum between “pleased” and “totally indifferent.” I am, however, actually a bit disappointed. I know! What the fuck, over? You would think, judging by the way I'm still talking about this, that I actually want, desire, aspire to, crave, yearn for, covet, or have a hankerin’ fer one. Well, that is just not the case. No, it isn't. Nuh-uh. You can't prove that. OK, fine. I do, kind of, want one, sort of, and I was, a little bit, saddened, slightly, by not getting one yesterday. So there. Happy now? I'm not looking forward to the touch screen keyboard though. That, above all else, is going to annoy the ever living crap out of me. I hope there is an application which will allow me to pre-load a bunch of phrases for use in e-mail and text messages. I'm thinking things like, “Since the i-Phone keyboard sucks, please accept this prerecorded message: ‘Yes.’” or “Since the i-Phone keyboard sucks, please accept this prerecorded message: ‘No.’” or “Since the i-Phone keyboard sucks, please accept this prerecorded message: ‘Sure, what time is good for you?’” that sort of thing. I'd have several options of course, to cover most situations. Of course just one that says, “Since the i-Phone keyboard sucks, please accept this prerecorded message: ‘Call me.’” ought to work as well. Well, we’ll see. So since the weather is supposed to turn cold and shitty again, there really isn't much point in going to the shop to work on The Seven. I am still planning to do just that because I really want to get that thing up and running again, even if I can't drive it. Tony Calvert has been calling every Saturday evening to see how I'm doing. I made a mock challenge to him to see which of us would have our car running first. He beat me soundly, now he’s just rubbing it in. I just need it running in seven weeks for Birkinstock. Hopefully that will be doable. We shall see. Well, I'm a little bored with talking to y'all right about now. I think I'll go play solitaire. I'll give you a report on Monday as to how The Seven and i-Phone situations pan out.