Well, rats. We picked up the phones tonight – Audiovox 8900s, to be exact. It turns out that these phones have really loud, non-changeable, non-customizable musical tones for startup and shutdown. To me, they’re annoying but something I could maybe ignore, but to David, they’re a dealbreaker. Which is too bad, because otherwise they seem like nice phones aside from the non-changeable banner that gets in the way of Caller ID and the clock every 5 seconds whether you want it or not. And the really loud tones on startup and shutdown. Embarassingly, head-turningly “who the hell has such a…

GREAT APE PRESS – simian poets need apples and cats, not typewriters Steve sent this in retaliation for my sending him a link to the Sidetalkin’ site. rock. sit rock. want apple. janet give apple. give apple janet. want apple. rock. want apple. baltar apple. want apple. janet give apple baltar. Dammit, these monkeys are making a monkey out of me, their stuff is much more lyrical than my craptabulous Blogon stanzas. Dammit dammit dammit. They write better mysteries than I can, too: The Mystery of the Missing Cat, by Chimko chimko find tree. need cat. where cat. chimko find…

Steve called to tempt us: the nearby Verizon store had some new cell phones and our wireless contracts were up, or nearly up. So we made the rendezvous at the phone store, after stopping off at a huge new tile store and thinking evil thoughts about a future DIY tiled backsplash project. Evil! Evil! Projects are evil! But there were some very nice examples there, and a lot of selection. Even David was impressed, and he usually views the early warning signs of a new household project with scepticism.