Beautiful Lightning Storm for Seattle

I watched this around 9:30 pm, with the lights out, and ended up sleeping like a baby when the rains came.

phones phones phones!

Because my man works in the cell phone industry, I get a lot of questions about cell phones. I try to be gracious. I don't work in the cell phone industry: he does. People ask me anyway. I wonder if unconsciously, we think that married couples have some ingenious method of absorbing the knowledge and experience of the other, through some kind of nifty proximity osmosis. 

But if you are looking to upgrade your phone, now there are some toys that really take the word function seriously. Check out this link

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/smartphone.htm

While there are women screaming that the iPhone might have a misogynous design because their long fingernails don't allow for finger contact with the stylus-free screen, I think the iPhone is the superior product. And yes, I did get to see a version of the MS Smartphone that has yet to be released. The funny thing is, it looked like a bunch of people simply looked at Apple products and ripped off every good idea they could. 

So, why don't I have an iPhone? Well, because iPhone isn't a part of the product family with the company of my man, and I get my phones from him. Instead, we decided to buy a decent camcorder with a built in hard drive. I'm just not one of those people that have to have "the" toy of the year, though I can appreciate their design and function. 

Same reason why I switched to the MacBook this year, after years of being a Windows PC user. Habit. Addiction. We get used to things, and then don't want to go through the pain of switching to something less familiar. Every time I change phones -- yes, even from one Blackberry to another, something goes wrong. Lost data, lost phone numbers, missing functions. 

Wisdom tells me that even with technology, we cannot escape pain and suffering. Buck up. Get that phone. Figure it out. And then, give me a call. But don't leave your phone around. At $299, $399, and later $699 for a contract free version that is coming soon, these phones are the target of little thieves to the level that Hello Kitty toys were stolen out of the back windows of Honda Civic's in the 1990's.