Great Evening!
Jul. 7th, 2004 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI think I mentioned last week that the VP of my division gave me a very cool new cell phone because she had an extra sample. Unfortunately, when I put my SIM card in it, it didn't work. So off it went back to the manufacturer, and I received the replacement today.
This phone has a list price greater than what I made in a week as a temp worker. It has video capabilities, not just camera. And voice dialing. And all kinds of other things no phone really needs to be able to do.
So I spent part of this evening playing with the voice dial feature, then took a picture of my daughter with the camera, and set the image as wallpaper on the main screen.
The phone has a joystick.
The owner's manual has 141 pages.
It's going to take me days to figure out all the functions, including streaming music from RealNetworks.
I don't usually get all excited about gadgets, and I never would have bought one of these for myself -- but now that I've got it, I feel gleeful and giddy.
And just to put the icing on the cake for the evening. . . when I went upstairs to show off my new toy (the Ex is a techie who does love gadgets), I found the Goddaughter and her boyfriend finishing a late dinner. The Boyfriend is a professional chef, and as I enjoyed a treat of scallops and noodles alfredo with herbs and roasted almonds, I suddenly had a brilliant idea: to have him cater my 40th birthday party this December. Within a few minutes we had decided to have a luau, including pig roasted in a pit in the backyard (we have a brick firepit already). Forget the black balloons! I'm going to have a tropical party in the middle of winter, and the Boyfriend promised to bring handsome Hawaiian dancers to entertain me.
And this afternoon, for the very first time, my daughter was so engrossed in reading a book silently, on her own, that first she didn't want to get out of the car, and then continued to read as she walked toward the house. I had to practically take the book out of her hands before she fell down the basement stairs. This is so exciting to me! She has seldom read for pleasure -- the exception being Calvin and Hobbes cartoon books (which were a good start). Now, thanks to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which we're both reading for the first time, she's starting to understand just how wonderful reading can be.
This phone has a list price greater than what I made in a week as a temp worker. It has video capabilities, not just camera. And voice dialing. And all kinds of other things no phone really needs to be able to do.
So I spent part of this evening playing with the voice dial feature, then took a picture of my daughter with the camera, and set the image as wallpaper on the main screen.
The phone has a joystick.
The owner's manual has 141 pages.
It's going to take me days to figure out all the functions, including streaming music from RealNetworks.
I don't usually get all excited about gadgets, and I never would have bought one of these for myself -- but now that I've got it, I feel gleeful and giddy.
And just to put the icing on the cake for the evening. . . when I went upstairs to show off my new toy (the Ex is a techie who does love gadgets), I found the Goddaughter and her boyfriend finishing a late dinner. The Boyfriend is a professional chef, and as I enjoyed a treat of scallops and noodles alfredo with herbs and roasted almonds, I suddenly had a brilliant idea: to have him cater my 40th birthday party this December. Within a few minutes we had decided to have a luau, including pig roasted in a pit in the backyard (we have a brick firepit already). Forget the black balloons! I'm going to have a tropical party in the middle of winter, and the Boyfriend promised to bring handsome Hawaiian dancers to entertain me.
And this afternoon, for the very first time, my daughter was so engrossed in reading a book silently, on her own, that first she didn't want to get out of the car, and then continued to read as she walked toward the house. I had to practically take the book out of her hands before she fell down the basement stairs. This is so exciting to me! She has seldom read for pleasure -- the exception being Calvin and Hobbes cartoon books (which were a good start). Now, thanks to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which we're both reading for the first time, she's starting to understand just how wonderful reading can be.
