In which I purchase my first smart phone

*At dinner, pulling the blackberry out of its case and noting that it turns on*
"...How does it KNOW???" *proceeds to push the phone in and out of its case several times*

*later, in the car*
"I'm going to Wikipedia 'hiccups.' Wait a minute. I could wikipedia 'hiccups' right now."

On flagging youtube videos

(7:56:36 PM) tallbladeofgrass: they had a variety of options to choose from like "sexual content" and "violence/disturbing" but not one for "fucked the hell up"

and he's single, ladies!

(10:01:01 PM) ilyeria: thats a rare piece of chess knowledge you cant find with google

I give up

When I moved into my last apartment, I got a land line. The number used to belong to a woman who has apparently fallen off the face of the earth in an attempt to escape debt, because I got frequent calls from debt collection agencies as well as family members. Finally, I changed my answering machine to say "if you are calling for Phyllis, this is no longer her phone number."

That was almost three years ago. I still get robo messages now and then for her, which makes sense because the automated system doesn't listen to my message. Sometimes I get messages from humans who clearly don't pay attention and leave a message for Phyllis anyway.

Today, I get a message on my machine which acknowledges the answering machine message stating that it is not Phyllis's phone number, and then proceeds to leave a message for her anyway.

"Hi, this is X, I guess...they said this wasn't your phone number...but anyway I was just calling to see how you're doing and wish you a happy Easter. X, from Ohio, remember?"

Help me.

In which I increase the readership of my blog

Here are pictures of my cats:

She's not stretching, she's actually asleep.

Artemis loves her some shirt drawer.

Luna adores her chicken costume, can't you tell?

I just noticed that the crab seems to be eyeing Artemis in terror.