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So, I started a post the other day but, even though I knew what I wanted to write about, I couldn’t think of what I should say.  I thought I deleted it but apparenly I saved it as a draft and Rich published it today. 

 So, yes.  He’s still breathing.  And as you can see…his day wasn’t a very good one.  After a chore filled weekend of helping me fix my house to get ready for the landlord’s inspection this Friday AND helping me stack a 1/2 cord of wood for the wood stove he deserved to sail through today.  Sorry honey.

And now on to the post.

 Rich is definitly alive.  He’s just been really busy trying to juggle work and a girlfriend and the girlfriend’s kids and the girlfriend’s dogs (which are actually more work than the kids).  Yet in between all of that juggling he has found the time to ponder life and has changed his point of view about some things.  Por ejemplo (sorry, I took Spanish, I don’t know a lick of French):

     1.  He has recently grown tired of his “regular” cell phone that doesn’t need to do anything but allow him to make calls.  Does anyone in the audience remember how he justified owning his lame, no feature phone?  He doesn’t need a Treo or a Blackberry because he has a laptop (!) with a wireless card (!!) and he can check his mail whenever he needs to.  Dead Mac battery?  Pffffttttt!  He has a power adapter in his car that works like a wall socket!  He can charge anything anywhere (as long as the car runs anyway)!  Why do you need a camera in a phone?  That’s a stupid feature.  If he didn’t text me so much he wouldn’t need that ability either!  A cell phone should just be a phone.  Plain and simple.  No frills, just function.

Except now?  He’s decided that he wants an iPhone.  Yes.  He’s jumping on the bandwagon.  Now, what I want to know is, how in the world does a person go from insisting on simplicity to craving a gadget that’s so complex most of the people who own them don’t even know how to work them?!?  I poked around on my sister’s iPhone (she’s a snob, has to have the newest of everything, and no, she doesn’t know how to work all of the functions) and I got lost the first time I navigated away from the menu. (Shut up Rich.) (You too Jim.) One thing I did notice, though, was that with all the touch screen technology that thing will constantly be smeared with palm sweat and food crumbs and everything else that has the potential to get all over a person’s hands.  Does this sound like a good investment?  I think not.

     2.  Starbucks is over-rated.  ::insert cricket chirping sound here::  I agree with him on that.  I like Starbucks just as much as the next person but I cannot justify a $100/month coffe-drink (I hate coffee) habit.  (I do like me some Chai, though, but this isn’t about me.) Rich needs coffee to function.  Sometimes I think he should walk around with an IV so the stuff can just drip straight into his veins but even HE can’t justify spending $5 for a cup of coffee, even if it is a Venti.  So he has resorted to firing up his Bunn in the morning and/or pilfering coffee from work and job sites.  Unless he gets a gift card for some gift recieving occasion, then he’s right back in the Starbucks. 

I’m actually kind of proud of his restraint.

These are just two examples of how Rich is evolving.  Nothing drastic but he is becoming a bit of a flip flopper. 

If only he would lose interest in sci-fi and become enamored with Animal Planet…