Yes, I am such a geek: I have once again fallen prey to my periodic desire to upgrade my cellphone, a Motorola E-815, since it is starting to not connect (!) or send messages... you know, minor glitches like that. It has miraculously acquired these hiccups exactly 26 months after I started my latest 2-yr contract with Verizon -- funny, that.
Also, I have started to send a lot more text messages and using a number keypad to write those messages is incredibly annoying, reinforcing my longing for a QWERTY phone which was focused last year in the form of a Palm Treo... until I bought my (now malfunctioning) TX after Thanksgiving.
Enter Verizon's version of the Samsung Alias which looks like a regular fliphone, but can also swing out into full QWERTY layout, and is available for only $50 (w/ free shipping) if I shackle myself to Verizon for another 2 years.
So I used Le Engineer as a test subject during my lunch hour on Friday by calling him from various cellphone models in the Verizon store. (He did not seem to mind ;-) and in fact agreed to meet me for drinks after work that day, pre-Eddie Izzard concert, during one of those calls, but more on him in a moment.)
In contrast, today I spent it doing completely non-technical things such as making cassoulet and finishing a baby kimono for the baby shower on Sunday for my nephew's wife. I have to admit that the idea of spending an entire afternoon with 20-30 other women in a single room (most of whom I don't know very well) ... well, maybe I'll bring along some more knitting, since our admin @ work, Vonetta (who is fabulous and will be sorely missed during her maternity leave) is due in a few months.
In any case, I still have to iron and wrap this kimono in the morning, and then go downtown and pick up my mom to catch a 10:37am train to Greenwich. * yawn*
As threatened, I will now return to a topic who is 6'0" with blue eyes and grey-blond hair (who is NOT a younger man -- shocking, I know!)
I have to admit that I am a bit bemused since we are actually going very, very slow (you have no idea, and I am not going to go into detail HERE... ask me privately if you really want to know). This cautious approach is such a novel experience for me that I don't know quite what to do with myself.
Meeting my ex was like being hit by a train: we started off with an 11-hr. first date and ended up exchanging keys within 2 weeks. By contrast, this slow and delicate approach (on both sides) is entertaining in a whole 'nother way, and something that's never happened in any of my previous forays into the hell of dating, I mean -- in my dating adventures.
Our upcoming schedules are about to apply yet more brakes to our "speed" since one or the other of us will be out of town during the next 10 days (which is not a bad thing, actually :-D since I suspect guys tend to become more interested when you are not readily available... a skill I have been previously unable to master).
I am going to leave the rest of my silly sappiness out of it, except to say that although I am still making up my mind, I have clearly decided that "this is an avenue of inquiry definitely worth pursuing" as they would say in my beloved cop shows, and those old Heinz ketchup commercials were right: anticipation is fun! :-)
Also, I have started to send a lot more text messages and using a number keypad to write those messages is incredibly annoying, reinforcing my longing for a QWERTY phone which was focused last year in the form of a Palm Treo... until I bought my (now malfunctioning) TX after Thanksgiving.
Enter Verizon's version of the Samsung Alias which looks like a regular fliphone, but can also swing out into full QWERTY layout, and is available for only $50 (w/ free shipping) if I shackle myself to Verizon for another 2 years.
So I used Le Engineer as a test subject during my lunch hour on Friday by calling him from various cellphone models in the Verizon store. (He did not seem to mind ;-) and in fact agreed to meet me for drinks after work that day, pre-Eddie Izzard concert, during one of those calls, but more on him in a moment.)
In contrast, today I spent it doing completely non-technical things such as making cassoulet and finishing a baby kimono for the baby shower on Sunday for my nephew's wife. I have to admit that the idea of spending an entire afternoon with 20-30 other women in a single room (most of whom I don't know very well) ... well, maybe I'll bring along some more knitting, since our admin @ work, Vonetta (who is fabulous and will be sorely missed during her maternity leave) is due in a few months.
In any case, I still have to iron and wrap this kimono in the morning, and then go downtown and pick up my mom to catch a 10:37am train to Greenwich. * yawn*
As threatened, I will now return to a topic who is 6'0" with blue eyes and grey-blond hair (who is NOT a younger man -- shocking, I know!)
I have to admit that I am a bit bemused since we are actually going very, very slow (you have no idea, and I am not going to go into detail HERE... ask me privately if you really want to know). This cautious approach is such a novel experience for me that I don't know quite what to do with myself.
Meeting my ex was like being hit by a train: we started off with an 11-hr. first date and ended up exchanging keys within 2 weeks. By contrast, this slow and delicate approach (on both sides) is entertaining in a whole 'nother way, and something that's never happened in any of my previous forays into the hell of dating, I mean -- in my dating adventures.
Our upcoming schedules are about to apply yet more brakes to our "speed" since one or the other of us will be out of town during the next 10 days (which is not a bad thing, actually :-D since I suspect guys tend to become more interested when you are not readily available... a skill I have been previously unable to master).
I am going to leave the rest of my silly sappiness out of it, except to say that although I am still making up my mind, I have clearly decided that "this is an avenue of inquiry definitely worth pursuing" as they would say in my beloved cop shows, and those old Heinz ketchup commercials were right: anticipation is fun! :-)
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