I broke down, and I bought one. I’m now one of those a**holes walking down the street checking his email. I want to stay connected, via email and the internet, and also a phone.

See, for what has now become a multi-year bother, my friends have been pestering me about getting a cell phone. I put it off citing the associated charges and the shortcomings of other phones. But now, I can do a lot of tedious tasks I used to use my laptop for - checking mail, calling people, reading news, find local movie show times, get directions from point me to point b. Even listen to my music and watch stupid internet videos.

Simultaneously a great and sad day. [caption id=”attachment220” align=”aligncenter” width=”200” caption=”Fully charged and ready to go”][/caption] [caption id=”attachment221” align=”aligncenter” width=”200” caption=”What I see when it says hello”][/caption] [caption id=”attachment222” align=”aligncenter” width=”200” caption=”A demo graph from the grapher program I bought”][/caption] [caption id=”attachment223” align=”aligncenter” width=”200” caption=”My daily news intake”][/caption] [caption id=”attachment224” align=”aligncenter” width=”200” caption=”Looking for movies - blue dot is where I was”][/caption] [caption id=”attachment226” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Watching a Reel Big Fish music video on YouTube”][/caption] [caption id=”attachment_227” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Which album to play?!”][/caption]