I've been looking at cars online now for a few days, my current POS should be exploding any day now.  Mostly I've been looking into used cars, primarily 2000 and newer, but I've also been looking at Scions.  They seem pretty nice, and reasonably priced.  Since I've got the day off tomorrow for Memorial Day, I'd like to take a test drive on the Scion tC, but Dad is needing my help finishing up some outside work at his new house.

So I guess I'll just have to play it by ear.

I think I know what phone I am going to get...maybe.  I'm thinking seriously about this phone at least.  The Motorola e680, a pda phone loaded with a Linux OS!

Here's a pic:

and here's a review.

I like how the phone can be customized in almost every way, highly configurable, and stable.............however it sports a $340 price tag.

Ouch!

I think it might be worth it.

Begun the Console Wars have
[ http://www.nintendo.com/ ] [ http://www.us.playstation.com/ ] [ http://www.xbox360.com/ ]

Nintendo Revolution - focused on the gaming experience
PS3 - powerful with 9 processer cores
XBox360 - an entire home multimedia experience

Blake is really getting on my nerves, I might just cut off the westview clan altogether because of him.  Yes he is that bad.  A twiggy boy-of-a-man who has an ego the size of a small planet, has lived his entire life getting whatever he wanted, such that the spoiled jerk thinks the world "owes him one".  Stuck-up, self-centered, opinionated, you get the idea.  What makes it worse, is he always is making fun of something....I'm thinking self-esteem problem.  If he didn't already have a girlfriend I'd swear he was gay, too.

Funny thing is...all his friends are that way too.  Granted, not to the same ass-monkey level he has achieved, but still.  I have one friend there in the circle.  Jonathan.  A guy I literally grew up with, he was my best friend for as long as I can remember.  I still think of him as my friend, but something has changed in him.  He is different, he is becoming like Blake.

There is that expression, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.  Well I keep nobody close, everyone stays at a distance.  At first I thought it was because other people didn't like me, and while that is still true for certain ones, the reality is I don't like me.  And everytime I go on the forum, I get shat on by Blake and his stupass friends, but I still come back, because that feels like all I've ever known.  That is what I expect from my friendships: to be the butt of the joke, and be the last one picked, to be the fat kid who cries, to be that guy that doesn't fit in but hangs around anyway, because he doesn't have anything else to go to.

If I said what I think everytime I am around him, it would probably end with
"...you and the horse you rode in on"

Nope, scratch that.

The bums over at lextechs.com mismarked the price on my phone, and when they realized (aka when I ordered it) the cancelled the order, and told me the price was actually $299.  The phone was marked $89.  Damn, I knew it was too good to be true.

Oh, well back to square one. x475 will probably be the way to go, unless I can find another unlocked GSM phone fairly cheap.

I think I found door number three

Purchase an unlocked Tri-band GSM phone and let the contract expire then just go monthly with no commitment.

I've already begun the door #3 process, I'll keep you posted.

I don't know how exactly I came across this deal, but there it was.  A $500 Sony Ericsson phone for sale at $90!

I can get the new phone I want for $99 if I extend my contract one year from now.

-or-

I can wait until August (when my contract is up) and try and get the phone upgrade then, but there is no guarantee it will still be $99, or even if the phone will be available in 3 months. And for the upgrade program I have to extend my contract anyway.

I'm leaning toward getting the phone now, either way I'll still have to extend commitment, but If I upgrade now, it will be 3 months less total commitment. If I had been on the more expensive plan I could get the phone for free, but lets not dwell on the sucky part. I barely use my minutes as it is, what would I do with twice as much talk time? Thats just wasteful, and for the difference in price, I could more than pay the 100 bucks. Oh yeah, and Bruce (the Rep I talked to) marked down on my account that he will give me a month of free service if I get the phone now. He must get a fat bonus if I re-up my contract.

I'm leaning toward the Samsung x475

Or the Nokia 3220

Eric B. & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (Acen Remix)

Go find this song and listen to it.

Ok, so 2 hours mowing the lawn, then the next 2 hours spent playing tackle football.  Needless to day I am really sore.

Mowing my lawn always takes like 2 hours even if I don't bag it.  Who am I kidding I could use the exercise.