Blame it on my parents this time.
Well, I'm trying but it's not working.
My father is the reason I'm a tech whore... lol. He's either almost as bad as me or pretty close. Had he grown up in my generation he'd be much much worse. MUCH MUCH WORSE .. he made a career as a full time computer programmer, while I only do it part time .. lol
He carried a regular phone up until 3 or 4 months ago when he changed jobs. Now he's gone and bought himself one of the Treos and that has now turned into the most recent PDA he obsesses over (there have been about 6 over the past 5 years). I don't even come close to him as far as over-using my cell phone or any PDA for that matter. OMG he has a PDA IV in or something because he can't carry on a conversation without consulting the PDA for something! It's funny ... but like I said, I know exactly where I got it from. When we were kids we were the first people I knew to have a computer.. by the time the other kids saw one, we were on our third Apple.
OK .. I'm denying the obvious ...
I text my Dad last night (yes with the purchase of this Treo my Dad 'discovered' text messaging and is following suite as another text whore in the family .. lol) and tell him to google the Lifebook and check it out (he is so techy that he pays the $40 a month for internet on his phone, while I do not). His reply a bit later was not anything negative ... I got something like that's a great deal. Well damn ... I was looking for someone to bully me out of it and no one did ..
So .. I did what I always do.. put it in the cart and argued with myself for about an hour over buying it or not buying it. Finally I decided that my time is worth more than this and I know me and I WILL end up getting the damn thing anyway because I need it and I have not bought a computer in years now (and I KNOW ME), so instead of wasting even more time (it's already been since November and probably 30 hours of research and obsessing) just buy the damn thing.
So that's what I did.
Tech whore ...
But .. at the same time I found out that he was shopping himself and looking at a Sony UMPC (like daughter like father). Seeing as he was considering the massive price tag for that, I put a little bug in his ear about buying the HTC Shift instead. So while I may not be buying it for myself .. :o( .. maybe I'll be able to touch it and drool over it if it's at his house .. :o)
UPDATE .. storm sucks, almost as bad as my DSL internet connection. I whined for hours waiting on my internet to start working again so I could fix a typo on this page. Clearly I have issues... Ok not just that, but to continue to stalk Best Buy's website for my UMPC .. :o)
Well, I'm trying but it's not working.
My father is the reason I'm a tech whore... lol. He's either almost as bad as me or pretty close. Had he grown up in my generation he'd be much much worse. MUCH MUCH WORSE .. he made a career as a full time computer programmer, while I only do it part time .. lol
He carried a regular phone up until 3 or 4 months ago when he changed jobs. Now he's gone and bought himself one of the Treos and that has now turned into the most recent PDA he obsesses over (there have been about 6 over the past 5 years). I don't even come close to him as far as over-using my cell phone or any PDA for that matter. OMG he has a PDA IV in or something because he can't carry on a conversation without consulting the PDA for something! It's funny ... but like I said, I know exactly where I got it from. When we were kids we were the first people I knew to have a computer.. by the time the other kids saw one, we were on our third Apple.
OK .. I'm denying the obvious ...
I text my Dad last night (yes with the purchase of this Treo my Dad 'discovered' text messaging and is following suite as another text whore in the family .. lol) and tell him to google the Lifebook and check it out (he is so techy that he pays the $40 a month for internet on his phone, while I do not). His reply a bit later was not anything negative ... I got something like that's a great deal. Well damn ... I was looking for someone to bully me out of it and no one did ..
So .. I did what I always do.. put it in the cart and argued with myself for about an hour over buying it or not buying it. Finally I decided that my time is worth more than this and I know me and I WILL end up getting the damn thing anyway because I need it and I have not bought a computer in years now (and I KNOW ME), so instead of wasting even more time (it's already been since November and probably 30 hours of research and obsessing) just buy the damn thing.
So that's what I did.
Tech whore ...
But .. at the same time I found out that he was shopping himself and looking at a Sony UMPC (like daughter like father). Seeing as he was considering the massive price tag for that, I put a little bug in his ear about buying the HTC Shift instead. So while I may not be buying it for myself .. :o( .. maybe I'll be able to touch it and drool over it if it's at his house .. :o)
UPDATE .. storm sucks, almost as bad as my DSL internet connection. I whined for hours waiting on my internet to start working again so I could fix a typo on this page. Clearly I have issues... Ok not just that, but to continue to stalk Best Buy's website for my UMPC .. :o)
