The Fabric of My Life

Oh, how I enjoy getting new gadgets! Friday night, after a yummy dinner at Nikko's (I love eating out... have I mentioned that lately?), Jon & I moseyed on down to the Verizon store. My cell phone (favorite phone EVER) has been being quite ornery since its last plunge to the hard, cold earth/garage floor (I drop it often... the last time -- in the garage, it came apart at the seams). But did I mention that I LOVE it?! Anyway, my contract allows for a new phone at discount pricing (as of 1/10, actually), and despite my affection for the old one, it was probably more-than-a-little time for a new one. My new little best friend is an LG VX8300. Still love those LG phones better than any of the rest. (Wouldn't join you crazy Motorola owners for the world.) My upgrades: VCast (not that I'll use it), camera (with flash), bluetooth, tune-playing capability, 99 speed dial slots (who needs that many?! I only used 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 on my old phone), a phone that hasn't been dropped a million times (okay, I dropped it the first night I had it... initiation to life-with-Heidi, we'll call it). Negatives: the side down-volume control on my old phone (when held down) switched it to vibrate, with this one I have to press & hold the * key (which means actually opening the phone to switch to vibrate); there's only one work number slot in the contacts; the groups (within contacts) are limited to 10 members. I'm sure I'll come up with lots o' other stuff... both goods and bads... as I get to know (and love, I'm sure) my new phone. For now, I'm just excited to use it! The phone calls, text messages, and voicemails are few and far between since I got it. One text from Verizon (learn about your new phone) and two outgoing calls... one to mom (which was a very productive phone call, thanks Mom!) and one to an IT guy in Connecticut today (who helped me reconnect my PocketPC this afternoon... more about that in a sec). But, I've got all my contacts reloaded. That took damn near forever. I would've asked the Verizon guys to transfer them for me, but I had a line behind me a mile long! And those guys were pit-i-ful. So, I figured it would give me something to do this weekend... and boy, has it!

And in other gadgetry... I've been playing with my new digicam tonight. I wish I could take better photos; but my subjects just won't hold still! Well, that and I don't have a lot of creativity with inanimate objects. My fave recents of both animate and inanimates (just don't tell me if you think they're crap):


And as if actually getting new gadgets isn't enough, I got to pretend like my PocketPC was new... because it decided to completely die at some point over the weekend. I swear I've let the battery run down to dead several times before (and why not, since I basically ignore it over the weekend... and its battery can hardly do three days of standby!), and this has never happened. But, evidently, he/she/it just decided it was time to clear its sweet little brain of every little thing. It lost the pics I had saved on there, cleared its theme, deleted the owner information, and wiped away the connection details (including server info that allowed it to automatically sync to my work e-mail, calendar, etc.). I had to start all over with it today. But... it's not so hard. It was actually kinda fun getting a blank slate with him/her/it again. I guess I was kind of feeling in-a-rut with the same wallpaper, theme, ring, etc. Who knew?!