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...
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Rain
Okay for those in the western United State of America you know that it has been a good solid week since we have had a day not filled with some very unusual weather. It has been raining almost every day, consistently for at least 10 days. This is most unusual...I live in Utah...you know...a desert.
In the state of Utah we average roughly 1.25 inches of rain in the entire month of June...so far...we have 1.5 and we aren't even half way through. I went to work this morning and thought I had stepped back into the 60's - there were so many mushrooms growing in my front yard that I felt obligated to pick them all and toss them into the garbage for fear that my children would ingest them and start another hippie movement...not that there's anything wrong with that.
So needless to say we have seen A LOT of water here during a time when we are used to seeing a lot of dusty roads and clean and shiny cars.
So on to my raving...
In spite of all this rain, I left work the other day to see a neighborhood development (one of those planned communities, not HOA or anything just an area for retirement aged folks where they have someone handle all the upkeep of the lots)...Well as I am driving by at 6:00 AM (I know it's early but I have a 45min commute each way) I notice that the sprinklers are on...Are you kidding me...my house is floating away and I have a shroom garden growing in my front yard, and you have the @!#($*@# IRRIGATION SYSTEM STILL GOING!
Sometimes I wonder...Utah is just now coming out of a 10 year drought...and although I know the watershed and crap like that have an affect...but maybe our own stupidity contributes in a major way.
This is not the only stupid thing I've seen when it comes to irrigation...I have seen countless numbers of businesses who are trying to make attempts to 'go green'...unfortunately nobody has told them that grass doesn't spontaneously emerge from asphalt. Seriously...why are we watering the road?
What makes it even better is that they are watering the road at like 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Ummm the water is practically boiling as it hits the black top. As a humble consumer peon, if I was watering the road at 3:00 in the afternoon I would be at risk of being shot...okay so at the very least a ticket from my friendly neighborhood police officer. I can't imagine that these business geniuses are being punished...and even if they are it can't be enough if they keep doing this day after day. The best part is, one of them is one of those vocational schools where you can get your GED by mail and stuff...wonder what kind of idiots are running that place, and it sure doesn't inspire much confidence...if the teacher is stupid...how are the students going to pan out?
Anyway...the lunatic mind is shutting down!
In the state of Utah we average roughly 1.25 inches of rain in the entire month of June...so far...we have 1.5 and we aren't even half way through. I went to work this morning and thought I had stepped back into the 60's - there were so many mushrooms growing in my front yard that I felt obligated to pick them all and toss them into the garbage for fear that my children would ingest them and start another hippie movement...not that there's anything wrong with that.
So needless to say we have seen A LOT of water here during a time when we are used to seeing a lot of dusty roads and clean and shiny cars.
So on to my raving...
In spite of all this rain, I left work the other day to see a neighborhood development (one of those planned communities, not HOA or anything just an area for retirement aged folks where they have someone handle all the upkeep of the lots)...Well as I am driving by at 6:00 AM (I know it's early but I have a 45min commute each way) I notice that the sprinklers are on...Are you kidding me...my house is floating away and I have a shroom garden growing in my front yard, and you have the @!#($*@# IRRIGATION SYSTEM STILL GOING!
Sometimes I wonder...Utah is just now coming out of a 10 year drought...and although I know the watershed and crap like that have an affect...but maybe our own stupidity contributes in a major way.
This is not the only stupid thing I've seen when it comes to irrigation...I have seen countless numbers of businesses who are trying to make attempts to 'go green'...unfortunately nobody has told them that grass doesn't spontaneously emerge from asphalt. Seriously...why are we watering the road?
What makes it even better is that they are watering the road at like 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Ummm the water is practically boiling as it hits the black top. As a humble consumer peon, if I was watering the road at 3:00 in the afternoon I would be at risk of being shot...okay so at the very least a ticket from my friendly neighborhood police officer. I can't imagine that these business geniuses are being punished...and even if they are it can't be enough if they keep doing this day after day. The best part is, one of them is one of those vocational schools where you can get your GED by mail and stuff...wonder what kind of idiots are running that place, and it sure doesn't inspire much confidence...if the teacher is stupid...how are the students going to pan out?
Anyway...the lunatic mind is shutting down!
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