New phones and stuff

Okay so I have taken a while before writing again...originally it had been out of protest of the rain...I decided that I wasn't going to write again until the weather had gotten drier. Well it has been dry for several days now, and I still hadn't written...I am going to stick with the excuse that I was waiting to see if the weather would change its mind.

So I got a new phone...It was time for a new contract and eventhough I had told myself that I didn't want to commit to contract that I may not have been able to afford, I couldn't help myself. There's something about holding a shiny new, un-pockmarked, un-childized phone, that makes it irresistable. So I jump online to see what shiny new wonder in the world of palm-sized anchors were available to me.

Wow...there is quite a selection...Now don't get me wrong. I grew up in the initial stages of cell-phones and cell-phone companies...but I still remember the brick sized pieces of junk that used to accompany you...Back to the days when Zack Morris in Saved by the bell became the first teen to carry the cellular device. This is before texting...before pocket PC's and i(fill in the blank).

Yes for all you teens out there you are wondering what I am talking about...This is the age when pagers were cool, walkman's were high tech wonders and the way to tell if your TV was top of the line was based on if it was color or not.

Now on to my new phone. They have some pretty cool stuff out there. I looked at touch screens, flip screens, and I think there was even a flip you off screen...not sure about this but maybe some additional research will tell the tale. So as I am browsing throught what appears to be an endless supply of fancy looking phones. My sights set on one particular phone...You may wonder why my eye was drawn to it...I wish I could say that the looks had me...sleek yes, stylish yes, even somewhat aerodynamic yes...but were these the features that grabbed me? NOPE...what about functionality it was certainly a do-all phone...Not quite...Okay I have it...PRICE...that has to be it...they were paying me to take this phone...Sadly no...So what you may ask caught my attention?

I give you three words.

TOP OF THE LINE

Okay so it was four...The phone came out a mere 1 week ago...it was the best the company had to offer...For some reason those four words hung in the air...they were like the dreaded serpant...egging me on to partake of the forbidden fruit...TOP OF THE LINE...you can be on the cutting edge of technological genius...all you have to do is commit to another two years of service...Just another two years of servitude in which you have nothing to leverage...

TOP OF THE LINE...caught me...I know own this phone, can't work the dang thing and have subjected myself to another two years of commitment. Now don't get me wrong, I have never been dissatisfied with my cellular phone service provider, but just because it hasn't happened before, doesn't mean it will never happen.

I force myself to resign to the fact that I am a sucker for technologicial advances...but who isn't...who wouldn't want the latest version of the i -whatever-. The latest technological advance...I mean I have to say that for some reason I find myself holding back on purchasing a TV until I get the best on the market. My computer is 3 years old (I know it's shocking isnt it) and already I spend hours and hours a day on computer websites looking at the latest models and just wishing that one of those ads free computer ads (get a Free XXX computer just complete 10 of the following offers) were true...oh how I wish...