Something Good to Wake Up To

If you haven't yet donated to the Red Cross for relief from Hurricane Kristina, I recommend strongly that you do so through Kung Fu Monkey, who will match any donations made through that blog.

New Phone

Same number. The new hardware is the Sony Ericssson Z500. CGI camera, movie mode, color screen, groovy stuff, etc. Big upgrade from the Nokia 3360 that had just lost its ability to put pixels on the screen.

Took forever to activate -- Cingular was giving the nice folks at the store network errors.

Horrific trip home. I am not going to detail it, except to say that clearly I was in the wrong for everything I said and I horribly overreacted, as always.