Fortunately, I had a backup phone from
Yesterday, through a series of conversations and attempted solutions with Radio Shack (those people are so helpful), it became clear that the answer was going to be some combination of a $30 charger and/or a $30 battery to make the phone work.
I have 97 days left on my T-Mobile contract. Thanks to the sliding early termination fees instituted a couple of years ago by most carriers, if I wait a week, I can pay only ("only") $50 to end my contract early and switch to an iPhone three months ahead of my original plan. Though this makes sense from the money-I-spend perspective (only a difference of $20 to switch to an exciting new phone 3 months ahead of plan), there's still part of me that hates to pay $50 to T-Mobile for nothing.
Thus, a poll:
Poll #1426821
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
Rosa should ...
hang in the 3 months with the workable if imperfect phone.![]()
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7 (21.2%)
buy the new battery or charger and finish out the 3 months on the preferred phone.![]()
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0 (0.0%)
pay T-Mobile the damn $50 and enjoy her new iPhone.![]()
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26 (78.8%)
other (specify below)![]()
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0 (0.0%)
Whenever Rosa gets her iPhone, she should get
a refurbed 3G (8GB or 16GB)![]()
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3 (11.1%)
a new 3G (8GB)![]()
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3 (11.1%)
a new 3Gs (16GB)![]()
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15 (55.6%)
a new 3Gs (32GB)![]()
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6 (22.2%)
other (specify below)![]()
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0 (0.0%)
I'd rather have the uncomfortable conversation than the uncomfortable silence; the conversation might get me somewhere.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
This afternoon,
aroraborealis wants ...
an iced coffee with cream and sugar![]()
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8 (22.9%)
an iced mocha![]()
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8 (22.9%)
a caramel frapuccino![]()
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6 (17.1%)
an iced latte![]()
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7 (20.0%)
other (specify below)![]()
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6 (17.1%)
I put up with it when it was in the 60s and rainy at the beginning of the month. But now it's almost July, and my skin is beginning to grow a thin film of algae, and it's time for the sun to come out. I don't care what the weather channel says; it's time for change.
Either that, or I'm moving to Cancun.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
NOM is ...
food![]()
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12 (18.8%)
the desire to eat food![]()
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12 (18.8%)
the action of eating food![]()
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56 (87.5%)
other (describe in comments)![]()
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15 (23.4%)
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
The preferable way to prepare a human arm for eating would be:
Well, we didn't actually get to the lake, because we were terrified of the hordes of vicious mosquitos. Seriously, those things were congregating at the doorway plotting to carry one of us away if we stood still for more than five seconds in a stretch.
The house we were in was gorgeous, with big windows full of green, leafy light and skylights and quirky art. The woods of the back yard featured several windows and a door nailed to trees, like a house of airy forest.
I don't remember the last vacation I took that I did so much nothing, and though more would have been overkill, this was just perfect. I got enough sleep, and good sleep at that, and gave my brain a big, long rest, which has, unsurprisingly, set it spinning off in different directions. Good ones, I think. I hope.
The best things this weekend, unsurprisingly, were my companions, the sense of unhurried plenty, gales of uproarious laughter, and the huge smile that may have left my face when I was asleep, but may not.
Other highlights include steaming a couple of lobsters, showering in the leafy green rain, and making a perfect s'more.
It's been a very difficult weekend.
Actually, they'll be super nice to you even if you're buying one bottle for $7.99, but they'll spend more time being nice to you if you make them help you pick out 20 different bottles.
* When people refer to pet owners as the pet's parents. "Aww, is mommy giving you a bit of catnip?" Wha ...?
* When people lay on the horn in standstill traffic. Has that ever helped?
* How much people are willing to give away in exchange for "free" cheap pieces of junk.
What confuses you?
As you may know,
Antonio and Gus are great, friendly, sociable cats who I would happily bring home with me were it not for the fact that the UDL local cat really prefers to be an only Kitteh. Perhaps, however, you are not so constrained. If you might be able to take a couple of good kitties until 2010 (and possibly longer if you and kitties are happy), drop me a line! She would happily pay for vet, food, vitamin and other costs!
On Thursday afternoon, I spent an hour sitting in the sun of the Berkeley farmer's market, with a curious-but-content baby on my lap, listening to folksy buskers and having delicious, juicy produce delivered to me by an industrious toddler and his adult-in-tow. It was one of the most do-nothing hours of my vacation in a curious way, and filled me up with quiet contentment that I love and have been missing.
On Friday evening, I attended a completely fantastic party, during which I would say I grazed more than settling in at any point, and somehow, along the way, reminded myself in a way that carried not only intellectual weight but emotional weight, that I like the path I'm on.
So, there was a lot of other good stuff, because vacation is better than not-vacation, but I brought some good, important things back with me.
Is this a thing that happens? Does it have a name?
I like this place. And vacation. Yes.
Last night,
Somehow, those brackets are representative of this whole trip. Too much, but not too much too much.