Major purchase ALERT!

Yesterday Kim tried to call me from Lawrence, but as my phone sometimes does, it didn't ring when she called while I was at work, and it didn't notify me of the voice mail until I stepped out of the building. And while it probably wasn't the phone's fault (actually, it helps prove my theory that this place is really dense), I went ahead and splurged on a new phone.



I look at it this way: I didn't spend $150 on one thing -- I spent it on three. In addition to it being a supercool slider phone with a bigger color screen and better Web capabilities, it's a decent cameraphone. I've traveled all over the country these past three and a half years, and I have no pictures to show for it. I've caught myself many times wishing I had a digital camera.

And since the iPod shuffle was kind of a bust (bought on the advice of Ann Gardner), it's also an MP3 player. It holds about 20 or so songs, and memory upgrades can be bought to hold a lot more.

So I'd like to think this phone isn't like a lot of other impulse buys I've had in the past (my last post titled "Major purchase ALERT!" was for the PDA I bought with which to write my novel, when for about $100 more I could have gotten a new low-end laptop). And as a way to show you how useful it is, here's a pic of what I look like now: