Going to Rachel‘s in San Jose: “Did you get the GPS?”
“Nah, I’ll just use my phone.”
Showoff. Oh, wait, mine does that too?!
We finally gave in to the inevitable on our dying Sidekicks and bought new phones. When you’re buying five cells, it’s like buying a car–you can’t just walk in and be done with it. Even though we mostly knew what we wanted, Wednesday evening it took us three hours. The saleswoman laughed a bit ruefully when I gave out, gave up, plunked down and pulled out my knitting.
Richard had great fun later swiping his new phone at the barcode on a Safeway receipt and having it tell him where all the most-local sources were for that pumpkin can and what their prices were, telling me that his friend had written that Droid app. Cool!
I got an LG env Touch, plenty for me. And I can now plug my hearing aids into my phone! I have always had to turn on the speakerphone and hold it (and hold it and HOLD it) right up at my ear. I will actually be able to have a private conversation now? And have much better sound quality from the phone itself, apart from the hearing aids? This is going to be quite nice.
I told Richard I really didn’t need him to buy me any more birthday presents, we’d shot our wad. Dirt. I need dirt. Dad sent me more amaryllis bulbs, Richard bought me a few too (yay! Thank you!) and I just need some potting soil and a few pots. I’m simple to please. (Wait–don’t look at that Touch when I say that…)
I’ll see Sunday if he agreed with me.