Me like tings

Yesterday I got a new mobile phone (cell for our NA cousins), or rather it was delivered to the office.
The first thing I did was not restoring my contacts from the backup file I made the night before. The first 10 minutes with the phone was spent setting it up so it behaves almost exactly like my old phone, which I would have gladly kept if it weren’t three and a half years old, battered, and starting to forget where it put its slippers in the morning. This happens to phones when they get old, they just start behaving strangely, almost exactly like going senile.
I say almost exactly the same as my old phone, because some of the new features are actually useful, like being able to assign a few more shortcuts than I previously could. Otherwise I turned all of the new features off.
I require two things from a mobile;
Make and receive calls.
Send and receive text messages.
I do not care for the other fluff, even though I do tend to use some of it – basic things like notes/reminders in the calendar, alarm and custom mp3 tones which I of-course create myself at home on my PC… why on earth you would pay for them when you can make them yourself is baffling.
In any case, it does have one nifty feature which is ultimately silly but really really cool. When it’s asleep, you tap it twice and the screen lights-up with the time.
Champion.
One slight negative is that the keypad is slightly more impeded than on the old phone, and so I’m going to have to cut my nails. They’re getting long anyway so it’s as good an excuse as any. My first few texts had some very strange typos indeed.

Currently I am:
– Drinking red wine often, at least one bottle a week, usually over two or three days.
– Eating rice-cake things, I think they’re called corn-thins probably because they are thin and also have corn in them. The flavoured ones are a bit strange with their strange powdered flavour strangeness, but I just like plain ones with Philadelphia cream-cheese.
– Addicted to Yoplait Lite French Cheesecake flavoured yogurt. It’s beautiful.
– Very plain Arnott’s biscuits, namely Shortbread Creams and Chocolate Scotch-Fingers. Some people like really elaborate biscuits with every known chocolate, caramel, nut and god-knows what else on them, but I just like plain stuff.

How to people break PCs?
In all of my years of using PCs since Windows 3.11, after all of my hardware swapping, program installing and de-installing, software modding, driver updating shenanigans, I have never killed a PC to the extent where I had to re-install Windows or format a hard-drive.
It then falls to me to fix them.
I have to admit, I had no idea how to recover an XP install, because I’ve never had to recover one before. This led to spending probably 4 hours more than I needed to on it.
This must be proof of the existence of at least two gods. One who likes me and keeps every PC I run healthy regardless of what I do to it, and one that is insanely jealous of the fact, and constantly makes people who know less about PCs than me capable of breaking their computers and asking me to fix them.
Sigh.
They were afterall my parents, and I do love them. I think. I think I still love them.
After the upteenth time of fixing their broken PC, I’m not entirely sure anymore.

It’s raining everywhere in Australia except Melbourne. I want that rain. We need that rain. I know we’re all in this together and we’re supposed to take short showers, but for me taking a 3 minute shower is like having someone feel you up for 3 minutes and then slapping you in the face and walking away. I love my showers.
I love them so much.
If I can’t take long showers it’s going to make my cry!
Bah – suck-it-up. We live in a desert and we all have to do our bit, I’m sure I’ll get over it. It is after-all for the greater good of the community.