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I have been buried in gadgets.

I'm tired, so I'll make this short <python-esque lackluster applause>

Yesterday we were at a relative's house and I noticed that she had a Compaq Aero 2100, which is exactly the kind of PDA I used to have until it got leprosy and slowly began to dissolve. In fact, at first I though it was mine (I had given it, such as it was, to Lizbeth's mom and it's plausible it could have ended up there) but then I noticed that the stylus actually fit into the stylus holder and popped out when pressed, unlike mine which was held in place by a wad of tape at the end to prevent it from being lost in the pit-of-no-return that my stylus 'holder' had become.

So anyway, different PDA, same model. I commented on this and was met with 'do you want it?'. She says that she'd had it for sbout 8 months and just couldn't think of anything to do with it but play solitaire. In fact, there are scratch marks on the otherwise pristine screen exactly over the section where the deck resides when playing.So, in short, I have a 'new' PDA. This is good because I have PDA again and bad because not only does it have the same annoyances as my old one (stupidly placed power button, winCE (not even pocketpc), etc) but it also robs me of my excuse to get one of the new Sharp Zauruses (Zaurii?) when they come out. I mean, not only do they run Linux, they have an actual thumb-sized keyboard and a 640x480 display! It's a like a pocket sized laptop. I could ssh into stuff (wirelessly) from my PDA!! Too cool.Oh well, later.

Gadget number 2: So Lizbeth and I are probably going to end up in Florida as I'm sure you're all aware(still no word on jobs for either of us, which makes things... interesting), and since we will probably be moving around a lot for the first week or so we figured we would do what some of our friends have already started doing and get cell phones in lieu of a landline. So, in the absolute least time it has taken me _ever_ to decide to spend a largeish sum of money, we went out and got cellphones. We were going to go with T-Mobile, but stopped along the way at a Xingular kiosk. They offered us a better deal and after some shuffling back and forth between the two shops, we ended up taking it. So we now both have niftycool cell phones that do all the sms and so forth that the kids are all crazy about these days. Huzzah. Their also by Siemens, who's website is www.my-siemens.com. If that's not funny to you, then you have probably been sleeping more than I have of late.

Anyway, I won't bother giving out the numbers since we're going to change them to Florida numbers as soon as we get there, but they're on a national plan so we get free long distance and all that (even without tellme=:) so maybe they will help us keep in touch.

Ok. I am sooooo tired and I didn't get any of my prepping done today. Instead I sorted out my portion of the packing and bought a cellphone. The outline for the class and a large portion of my personal prepping is done (though I still have to cover the API for this database). Now all I need to do is design and write the big example program that will for the basis for the hands-on exercises throughout the course and correlate each step of development with a lesson in the outline. 'Whee' and stuff.

Oh, and one more thing: What about this user icon? Every time I look at it I see something different: Nice Guy, Ming the Merciless, child pornographer... I'm really just not sure what to think. Opinions?