My cell phone died three weeks ago. Talked with Verizon - long story short, it doesn't make sense to get a new one until January 1. So I'm suddenly living back in 1 B.C. wondering how I can get in touch with this person or that company, or for same to get in touch with me. Not that I used it that much (he says defensively) but it's what I used.
I had fantasized about this moment ever since I got the thing, figuring that if it died I'd do fine. Would be liberating, even. Peaceful. Maybe even discontinue the service entirely.
Wrong.
Okay, maybe with time it could be. But then, maybe in time world peace will break out and hunger will be conquered.
I want my phone now!
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein
Currently reading
- Native Plants for High-Elevation Gardens, 2nd ed., by Jan Busco and Nancy R. Morin
- The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, by David M. Potter
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
- Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, by Rachel Maddow
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie
- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy
- Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest, 2nd ed., by Stephen Plog
- Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Jean Edward Smith
- The American Home Front: 1941–1942, by Alistair Cooke
- Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year, by Charles Bracelen Flood
- She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker, by Brigid O'Farrell
- Huey Long, by T. Harry Williams
- Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship, by Tom Ryan
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Blogs of personal note
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- Not your grandmother's tofu
- Why I don't use FedEx
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- He's not me
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- The way it was
- Ban them. Now.
- The owners are naked; I hope they freeze
- Casey's bummed
- America's un-American capital
- Mortification at the heart of the evil empire
- Whirling peas day
- The new orthodoxy?
- Unreported elephant in the room
- Letter to the leaders: health care reform
- Unsociable networks?
- Tragic, futile milestone
- This is what our soldiers are fighting for?
- Summer evening, eastern seaboard
- Pop quiz
- A virtue of pacifism
- Moving day approaches
- Mushroom
- Dittoheading themselves to irrelevance
- 'Nuff said
- Will there be future Miracles on the Hudson?
- Hypocrites, stimulus and the nuclear option
- Gerontological Old Party
- Disposable toys?
- Tax now
- Grounding
- Don't kick the dog
- Who do you call when the fire station is burning?
- November 4 changed everything
- Are we panicking yet?
- The proposed bail-out plan needs to be fixed
- Delegation
- How does one spell "junket"?
- Buddy, can you spare me a dime?
- Worse than a hypocrite
- Palin's right
- Sexism?
- Splitting hairs, hypocritically
- Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?
- A license plate for America
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1 comment:
I live there all the time. It's nice.
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