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phoneicycle

1:22 pm Saturday 24 February 2001

Today is Wende's birthday! I haven't done or gotten anything for her, but we are spending our first Saturday together alone since last year it seems.

Today we are picking up Scott from the shop and shopping for cell phones.

Right now we are munching lunch at a Chinese restaurant. I ordered almond chicken, but I'm actually full after just my sweet and sour soup.

The dude at the auto shop said that the air conditioner on Scott "blows real cold now," so yay for air conditioner in the summer!

5:48 pm

We have determined that Scott does not blow air conditioned air "real cold," so I'll call them Monday and take him back in next week.

We got new cell phones today! Identical model Nokias, and I really like them, "which is saying a lot," Wende assured the Sherman the sales guy.

I like the menuing system, and that I can associate multiple phone numbers with a single name. But what I like most: it has Predictive Text input, meaning if I type 3833, it knows I mean the word "dude" and not "ataa." I don't have to type the 3 key twice to get the e nor the 8 key twice to get the u. And I can add words to its dictionary!

Speaking of "its," we visited a different store which had happy phrases like "Free Text Messaging" and "We Are Great" and "Business At Its' Best."

What???

"Business At Its' Best" ?????

I was so offended that I almost left, but Wende was still looking at something and talking to a girl named Amy who recognized my bare feet from Taub Hall at UH!

We talked to her and asked questions; she was quite knowledgable about all kinds of phone stuff.

She showed us these fly new phones, but they only had demo models. We had to go to a different store to actually purchase them. Since she really made the sale, we will give her a gift certificate and a nice letter to her manager or something. (And a scathing letter to their marketing department.)

9:24 pm

We are at The Mad Potter, and I've just painted a medium size salad bowl for Meredith's Christmas present. (Yes, a tad late)

But even more recently, I just unicycled rom here to home and back to get the gift certificates from Mad Potter that I got in exchange for setting up their original domain and website.

The certificates are expired, but I thankfully intend that they accept them. I'm prepared to debate the point because I was originally supposed to be paid cash.

My unicycle ride impressed me. On the way home I stayed aloft the entire time, including crossing two streets, with 4 and 5 lanes respectively! And I successfully did some tight turns while going up a driveway ramp and turning onto a sidewalk and then turning the corner to the next sidewalk! Yay unicycle!

Oh, today Donna and I both thought we were supposed to be at KTRU. She was there first when Wende and I arrived. Wende and I will come back next week, and Donna and I will alternate shifts from there. Sucks because neither of us was there last week. doh!