I have been thinking about getting a new cell phone. I switched to Cingular only three months ago. When I switched I got a phone that was cool looking, but was so quiet I couldn’t hear people — even with the volume turned all the way up. I took it back and got a Razr. They’re all over the commercials, and my students seem to think it’s great that I have one. But I have to say… I don’t know why the heck anyone buys these. The interface is user un-friendly, I can’t customize what I want to customize on the settings, and it doesn’t have a normal jack for the handsfree, requiring me to buy either an expensive adapter or an expensive bluetooth device. Grrrr!
I decided to look on the website of Consumer Reports to see what they had to say about these phones. I didn’t see anything. So I looked to see if they had a discussion area. They do, but nobody has posted anything to the cell phone discussion area. So I did. I am the first poster on ConsumerReports.org to write about cell phone models. It’s a bit of a rant, but I’m mad at the manufacturers for putting poor designs on the market. My last line is: “I like phones that look cool, but if they don’t work, what’s the point?”
You can only read it if you’re a subscriber, so here’s my proof:
My name is at the bottom.
It has been viewed three times now. One of the viewings wasn’t me, so I know at least one person has read it.
I had one of those nights where you keep waking up and looking at the clock and expecting it to be time to get up but it never is so you just roll over until you wake up again and look at the clock and it’s only an hour later and you think you should be enjoying this but you aren’t because you keep thinking about how you should be getting up soon and why can’t you just sleep in (but it’s not really about sleeping in, it’s about not really sleeping very well and just wishing you could be awake instead of asleep because you really feel like anything would be better than sleep). It was a long night.
Here’s a picture of Lloyd and Lauren’s refrigerator:
The walls are nearly complete. The drywall is all hung and only needs to be patched and mudded. The area under the window turned out to not be solid cement, but only a thin layer of it spread over bricks. I broke away some of it so a piece of luan would fit on top. Hopefully that will be enough. (See the first and second picture below) I still don’t know what I’ll do if the sink anchor screw holes come out on top of the brick. I guess it’ll be time for some serious brick and cement anchors. I decided to pull down more of the south wall. The crumbling plaster wouldn’t have been an ideal surface for hanging cabinets or for tiling a backsplash onto. One 8×4 piece of drywall covered the area nicely (See the third picture).
The under-window area before:
The under-window area after:
The south wall with drywall:
Part One. Part Two. Part Three.
I was out in my back yard taking pictures of a sleeping bee. I have often seen bumblebees sitting in flower heads at dusk or dawn. They sleep there overnight. The pictures were a little difficult because the light was dim.
Then I noticed that the gate between my yard and the neighbor’s yard was open. I went to close it and noticed something that wasn’t there before — a trash bag. It was just sitting at the bottom of the back porch steps. It was full of something and tied closed. I didn’t want the neighbors in the next house over to see me creeping around — er, I mean — investigating the area, so I quick took a picture and came back inside. Is the trash bag full of evidence? Does it contain the murder weapon? Does it contain a human skeleton? I will watch this closely…
THE EVIDENCE
The Sleeping Bee
The Open Gate
The Mysterious Trash Bag
I go through this every school year: holes in my socks. My big toe toenail slants up. While I’m breaking in my teacher shoes, my big toenail is always black, because it’s rubbing on the top of my shoe. Then in always happens — I get a hole. I lose more socks this way than any other way, including getting lost in the dryer. Maybe somebody could introduce some product that would cap your toe to protect your sock. Or somebody could invent a sock with steel mesh in the toe so toenails couldn’t wear through. Or maybe there could be a special surgery that straightens toenails out so they don’t slant up. Where are the inventers and frivolous surgeons when you need them?
