New Phones
Well, the time has come to announce new phones. Yup. Erin and I both have new phones (and I have a new phone number, if I've not sent that to you yet, and you need it/want it because there is a need to get a hold of me, then you can email me and I will send it to you). The reason for the new phones is because I joined my parents-in-law's family plan. That was an easy decision with rather odd, and drawn-out, consequences. For example, Erin spent hours on the phone with our cellular provider (AT&T) trying to clear up a lot of problems, outstanding bills, and more.
The outcome was credits to the family plan, the AT&T rep ordering my new phone for me, and... well, Erin feeling highly satisfied with a job well done.
Erin decided to get a Samsung Blackjack II phone. It comes complete with the Windows Mobile OS on it. Before moving over to the Mac OS I was seriously considering this and had, naively, thought it would come with an independent or more Blackberry-centric OS on it... but, alas, it does not. What this means is that you have to purchase syncing software that interprets Windows syncing into the Mac. By the time we would've been able to (on my computer) get the phone to sync with my computer the cost was equal to...
The Palm Trio 680.
Since we can't afford to go for the iPhone (my preferred phone medium), I went for the Palm Trio 680. It arrived in the mail, today, which is why I am now blogging about the new phones. Granted, Erin's is thinner and more sleek and fits her personality to a pinch, mine is Titanium. I am still trying to figure out how to move things (like contacts) from the sim over to the phone, but I am able to use it, did figure out how to change the ring-tone on it, discovered camera and video capabilities, and have been txt-ing with it.
One of the main reasons I was asked, offered, and chose to move over to the family plan was because Jim (father-in-law) couldn't stand the thought of me not being able to just text whenever I wanted to. Granted, this is appealing... but this exists more, or as much for, Erin than it does for me. The reason we'd moved (and by we I mean Erin and me) away from txt-ing was because it was costing more to text than it was worth.
However, that has been rectified and we are moving forward.
This also marks the end of the semester. Finals start on Friday and go through Wednesday next week. I just looked and two of my finals (I scheduled one today) take place on Tuesday night... the latter of the two at p.m. This should prove to be fun.
What I need to do from now until next week is study, study, study for the finals I am taking. Two of the four I am not worried about. One of the four I am pretty certain I will fail, or get close to failing, and the fourth of the four can go either way. In all four cases, I need to sit down and study, study, and study.
As a result, I need to focus when I have the time to focus. Since school is out and since Erin works days, I can do much of the studying whilst Erin is at work. However, I do a lot of things while Erin is at work, none of them highly quantifiable... some of them include careful examination of the backs of my eyelids... but I do stuff.... Over the next week, that stuff will just have to be study.
Outside of that, we have received some suggestions for baby names. Keep 'em coming. Erin is focusing on a single name, at the moment, and suggested a middle name (unfortunately, names withheld because baby comes before public (or private) announcements) that I said, "Sounds like a hick name to me," she looked at me, said, "It's not a hick name," then followed it up with a few questions before moving on to more important things like my needing to fix the seat on the toilet so it didn't shift left and right under ones buttocks when attempting to... anyway.
The outcome, today, has been pretty good. The weather, yesterday, went from rather warm in the morning (I was in shirt sleeves) to ugly and cold and snowing in the evening. According to my mother, this afternoon, Utah's latest snow storm, in recorded history, was around May 18th. I am hoping, praying, that the snow and cold and weather is done for this winter season.
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