I got me a fancy picture-phone.

Published on March 12, 2004 By Jamie Burnside In Misc

Hi there friends! It is finally Friday. I am looking forward to a weekend surrounded by family and friends.

Last night my wife and I took the baby along for dinner at Bonanza in Saint Cloud. Success! We had a good meal, and the service was good (as usual.) We both had steak and all-you-can-eat shrimp. The last time we went there (in December,) our meals didn't turn out so-well. I was a bit apprehensive before going back, but fortunately we were able to put the past behind us and were treated to a nice dinner.

During dinner, my wife and I discussed (finally) upgrading our cellular phones and getting telephone numbers in our current area-code. Kazuko had really been wanting a phone with a camera on it. I must admit that I really wanted one too. (If anyone wants to see my butt, just ask.

) Note to my personal friends: I have changed my cell-phone number.

After looking at Circuit City, and calling our company to see how much an upgrade will cost, we decided to head over to Sam's Club. Luckily for us they had the phone that we wanted. We were also able to get a rebate for the full price of the two phones we got. Since we were already T-Mobile subscribers, we put the new account in my wife's name so we could take advantage of the new-account incentives. What a deal! Now we have more service for less-cost. I like when things work out like that.

Now I have the pleasure of "learning the ropes" on my new cell-phone. As usual when one buys a new phone, there is a bit of a learning-curve. I seemed to have figured out a number of things already. (It was a bit too late in the day however that I figured out how to turn off the ringer. My students kept asking, "What's that noise?")

The coolest thing is that I can take pictures with the phone and e-mail them to myself. That means it will be a lot easier for me to get pictures onto my weblog here. Before having the phone I had to: take a video, do a screen capture, then edit and compress each picture before I could download it on my photo host. With the camera phone, the process will be a lot more streamlined.

Here is the first picture that I took with my phone last night:

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