Gosh, it feels WONDERFUL to be home! Although my bed wasn’t very comfortable. I woke up numerous times through the night feeling very sore. I think my mattress needs to be replaced. I’ve slept on it since July 1998. It is one of those Swedish Foam mattresses that Sharper Image/Brookstone sells. How often does one need to replace a mattresss? I don’t know.
This morning I bit the bullet and upgraded my mobile phone. Last night, Lisa picked me up at the airport and then we had dinner at Mad King Ludwig’s restaurant on Sansom Street. I ordered a Berliner Weiße mit röt Schuß– it was sooo good. At any rate, my mobile phone rang and when I went to pick it up, the battery fell out. It was the last straw. Mobile phones are built to self-destruct after two years and I am right at that time. So I called AT&T Wireless and screamed and yelled and they gave me a $45.00 discount toward a Nokia 3200. Sure I would love a Blackberry especially because that is what all the cool business men keep pressed to their ears at the airport, but I can’t get myself to spend $400.00 on something that I will use to play solitaire. Besides, I need a new laptop on top of all this stuff. My Winbook died about a month ago and I am using one of my company’s old training laptops they threw away and I grabbed out of the dumpster. Yeah– it’s a real antique. I surfed Dell’s Web site this morning and they have some nice notebooks. The New Inspiron 9100 looks really tasty. Does anyone have any laptop recommendations?
I have a lowly Nokia 3390 which is now three years old and still functional – probably because it didn’t have that many functions to begin with.
My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite, acquired in ’02. It has served me well. I should point out, however, that Yon Doofus-Ridden Workplace bought two of the same model, and managed to break both of them in less than a year.
And now that you’re home, I’m hitting the road for a couple of weeks. Go figure.
I also bit the bullet and got two new cell phones. Since Wendy is hearing impaired, we both got the new swanky mobile phone of the moment. Mainly because they have a speaker phone. What really annoyed me was they both have camera’s. Unfortunately I can’t even bring them on the work campus or muchless in the building (*classified work…joy*)
But as for the computer we both traded in the massive boxes for two Imspiron’s. We made the deal at the end of the month and got two Inspiron 1000’s for about 550 each. God I love end of the month sales!
Ohh did you know you can write off all your business expenses or work expenses. And now that you have a home, that is your sure-fire way to start itemizing all those expenses!
Have a good one
-Jason