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Blackberry virgin to Crackberry whore in under 2 weeks

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Feel The Evolution

Feel The Evolution

I finally did it.

I turned my non-picture taking/receiving, non-keyboard, non-cool status, barely better then a walkie talkie 5 year old phone in and got a Blackberry Curve something or other.

The 20 year old sales clerk was all, and I quote, “Whooaaa, like seriously, according to your account you’ve had that phone for 5 years, we give credits ya know, as in it wouldn’t have cost you anything to upgrade.” ~ Ya, Whatever

Sprint doesn’t have iphones, so I settled for a Blackberry ~ It does have gizmo’s and I’ve only figured out 5 out of 30+ built in applications. I’m sure those other applications have some cool potential, but for now I’m just happy I can:

1) make and receive calls
2) text
3) twitter
4) take a picture and send it
5) Receive emails and painstakingly plink baby keyboard emails

Such advancements in my technological evolution have me feeling like Alexander Graham Bell must have felt when his first telephone connection crackled over the airwaves. I feel like I freakin rock. Sadly, it appears everyone else is already on the cell phone parade so basically I’m the only one truly impressed these days. Evidently, waving around a smartphone doesn’t score any ohhs and ahhs anymore, which is just fine because I ooh and ahh over the new girl enough to give it a complex.

When I first got the phone and was fiddling with it compulsively,  someone who shall remain un-named (cough, husband) asked, “Are you going to turn into one of those people who are on their phone all the time?” to which I responded, “I’m the one who had a 5 year old phone, I hardly think I’m a cell phone junkie. Today I just want to figure out all the bells and whistles, that’s all” Yup, I’m still eating those words……….

I’ve decided getting a smartphone is like introducing a newborn baby into the house. High Maintenance!!! The thing is always beeping and singing and crying for my attention. Beep ~ new email ~ Beep ~ text message ~ Beep ~ picture mail Beep ~ phone call ~ Beep ~ news update ~ Beep ~ come change my diaper all these messages are piling up and I’m getting uncomfortable BEEP

So today, on this early morning, with my Blackberry sleeping peacefully beside me only burping the occasional BEEP out, I’ll admit, I’m hooked. A Crackberry whore, waiting for her next beep hit, addicted. I feel completely aligned with the times and up to date now. My official mainstream integration is complete. Rebecca Anne is a loyal slave Mama to the cell phone influence for which there is no escape. Now I just need to figure out what to do with the jealous Papa…….

Him: “Are you going to be on that blackberry every time we get in the car?”
Me: “It keeps beeping, it needs me!”
Him: BEEP BEEP, goes the car horn-
Me: “Ya, ok, fine,” tucking Miss Blackberry safely back into her pouch, “point heard loud and clear. Geshh”

Mark my history books.
The invasion of the cell phone body snatchers has gotten another, ME ~

iLust Blackmerry on the Smart Rocks

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~Now that I have stepped up my technology stock with the mini-me laptop I was sure this occasion would float me for awhile on an electronic cloud of coolness. I’ve been strutting around the house with my babytop riding solo in my palm, just to make sure everyone noticed that Miss Lovely was my new favorite toy.

So yes, maybe I was shoving it under the noses of my children suggesting they take a sniff of it. Perhaps I was giving permission for them to touch it with a single finger if they wanted a zing of specialness. I might have taunted them with, look, but ya can’t touch teasing, when bam, these high tech kids and all their tech savvy righteousness did a big old smack down on Moms new found glory.

One of them and once again I shall not call the guilty party out by name, said this dart throwing, balloon popping, tech deflating sentence.

Teen: “Seriously, Mom, now that you have a mini-laptop, don’t you think it’s about time you got a phone that isn’t a total embarrassment to the entire race of cell phones?”

Me:” Whats wrong with my cell phone? It rings, I answer it, I talk, I hang up.I can even text on the damn thing!”

Teen: “Ahh, it doesn’t take pictures, it doesn’t go online, it doesn’t play music, it isn’t even pretty. It’s OLD FASHIONED. As for your texting, it takes you 5 minutes to text back on those number keys. Your slow as a snail because you don’t have a keyboard. Come on Mom, on your birthday 3 people sent you picture texts and you asked me how to ‘see’ them. You couldn’t because your phone and your service really sucks. Mom, it’s time to grow up and get with the times, seriously!”

My Next Phone, Cool Eh?

My Next Phone, Cool Eh?

Well bite my phones ass with a good dose of youthful perspective why don’t ya~  

Evidently, I’m still a loser. A mini-laptop might have given me a few inches on the tech ladder, but I’m still a mile behind everyone. It might be time to up my game.

This uncool status isn’t sitting well with me. However, I am afraid that if I upgrade I’ll get hooked on the high of advanced capabilities and then I’ll become a text whore, and an email junkie who dives for her phone anytime it beeps like this man wrote about…..Paul and his entry, Why Can’t I shut Up?  (by the way, if you’re not reading this blog, you are risking uncool status. Not uncool like I am phone tech uncool because I’m told that’s the bottom of the barrel in uncoolness, but blog uncool because his blog is cool and don’t we all want to follow the coolness of a blog on dry ice? Paul, you can pay me my cut later, via paypal, for that pimp job)

Now that I have mini-metop, maybe it is time to go phone global. I’ve been avoiding the phone upgrade for some time now, but how conflicting will it look if I whip my minitop out of my purse and dazzle the people around me. I can imagine the oohhs and ahhs filled with jealousy and admiration, but then my phone would ring and I’d pull it out just to be suddenly surrounded by a round of snickers, laughter and pointing. Not good. Not good at all. Sigh, a new phone…..if I succumb, I could crown myself  Queen of the Tech hill for at least a good week or two until the next latest and greatest tech toy comes out and makes me all antique once again~

Oh La La, I’m feeling it. The clarity of a non-drugged mind. It took me less the 10 minutes to type this and I felt honest to goodness enjoyment in doing so. Folks, I think I’m back. Yay Me…….ehh, lucky you (grin)

Mini-Me Laptop

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Mama Laptop and Baby Palmtop

Mama Laptop and Baby Palmtop

I’m here! I made it! I didn’t blow my Rebecca Anne world record count of blog entries in a row. I’m sure I’m the only one that was worried about it. I imagine a few of you were thinking, well thank god she gave it a rest for a day, but no, no can do, I’m on a mission from Oh Holy Blog~

This just happened to be the first day I felt human in over a week and I didn’t dose myself up with mind numbing drugs in the first 5 minutes I woke up.

One minute of brain clarity dissolved into another and suddenly I was walking, talking, and gasp, working. I would have enjoyed spending the day catching up on blog feeds, a zillion emails, thinking, house work and writing, but I was forced to act my age. I’m all grown up now, 37 years old, responsible and all that shit~

As for my birthday, it was a good day considering I was surrounded with love, a bit high still and spoiled rotten by the people around me. Now, I had given the kiddoes and husband 3 hints as to what I’d be delighted to receive for a present. Item number 1 was of course, Miss Kindle2. Item number 2 was a decent camera that I could do more then point and shoot with and lastly, number 3 was a mini-me laptop.

As you can tell from the picture, I got a mini-micro laptop and I’m typing this entry on the little bugger now! It’s my new toy, humor me, I must play. How’s that for the evolution of technology?

I’ve got a laptop that fits in my purse. As I age the size of my handbags seem to get larger and larger for all the crap I feel the need to drag around, might as well toss a laptop in there as well….Now, I’m locked and loaded. I can write anytime, anywhere without dragging around my big old laptop bag as well. I am in my form of writing at whim heaven~

That is all. Mission accomplished, play time temporarily over (grin)

 

 

 

Temptations of the Button Kind

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Bee to the Honey

Bee to the Honey

There is a button in my blogs back office that has been enticing me for over a week now. It says —–Upgrade to Atahualpa version 3.3.2 available. Install now—-That would be the template I use to contain all that you see on this page. The Mack Daddy framing, the Democracy that says, widget, you go here, font, you’re this size, pages, hold these words……Atahualpa is the church and pews and fine stained glass windows. I’ve resisted the pressure, so far, but I’m losing will power.

I wasn’t born yesterday, in fact, in light of recent discoveries, it’s apparent I was born 36 yrs, 11 months ago. Hence, I am wise, I am knowledgeable, I get to assume mature and sensible adult caution and know that clicking SOME buttons is tempting fate and all that is natural with the universe.

But I like to click buttons, a lot. I like to test things out and see what happens……usually I can’t resist. I am like like the moth to the flame, the cat to the curiosity and the fish that took the bait. Usually I~ can~ not~ help~ myself! Evidence of this button clicking, adjustment testing, irresistible urge to tamper with things, can be seen on my Twitter account. I’ve hacked and clicked, adjusted and moved so many settings that everything is whacked out and ill-functioning. Now I get to spend 1/2 of my time twittering, another 1/4 of my time in API violation solitude and the other 1/4 of the time staring at a near blank screen with a snide little sentence at the bottom of my screen mocking me with these words. “Status; There is a problem-don’t panic” ~~~ Works like a charm. I go into technology panic.  

One example, of my many forms of technology panic:

  • Computer screen freezes. The user (me) immediately goes for the top left red box with the X in the middle and rapid fire clicks it. I think that if I can just get the one offending and stubborn page off the computer screen life will go cozy and balanced again. click click click click, nothing. Jitters set in and I dive for the bottom bar and right click to close program. Sometimes this appears to work but things hover in no mans land, sometimes the little option won’t even present itself. Technology concrete. This usually will create irrational clicking of the spastic nature. I’ll start clicking anything and everything, thus overloading an already backed up system. At this point in time, turning off the computer won’t even work everything is so constipated.  This system of panic is sort of like taking a laxative and when it hasn’t worked in 1 minute, downing 10 more for good measure. click click click click=eventual nasty overall implosion. The only recourse left is removing the battery pack from laptop and start praying for a miraculous resurrection. Hell must be the destination of anything not saved….

But I still like to click things. There could be a huge RED button that says DO NOT CLICK HERE and it would take the strength of Zeus to pull me away. I’m addicted to tampering with things I have no earthly business engaging in.

Which brings me to the Atahualpa temptation whispering in my ear… Install, upgrade, install, comeon, don’t be afraid, install, push the freaking button, you knowyawanna, Install me…what are waiting for? Version 6.6.6?

So, I am afraid. For once, I am afraid to do an upgrade, click a button, tempt the Gods of Technology. What if I upgrade and I get this :::::FATAL ERROR::::: or all my settings disappear? The truth is, if I didn’t have bad technology luck, I wouldn’t have any at all. So here’s the deal, I don’t know how much longer I can resist pushing the Install now button. So, now you know the details. If you come to visit in the next week and discover a single splash page with this dire message, you’ll know the whole story………

~R.I.P~

Here lies Provocation of Mine (d)

“Like a bee to the honey~Rebecca pushed one too many damn buttons” 

It’s a Technical Envy

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~Isn't It So Pretty~

~Isn't It So Pretty~

Over the span of my lifetime I shall boldly claim I’ve been fairly immune to the bells and whistles of electrical callings. I’m so resiliant I don’t even have a iPhone, nor blackberry, or (gasp) a cell phone that takes basic pictures.  My highly evolved (or perhaps it’s stunted) immunity to technology has saved me truck loads of money over the years.

I know this because I haven’t bought anything. Around my house it’s same old TV that probably needs one of those converters everyone keeps talking about. My daughters have one video game system that they say is so old it’s grown long grey hairs out it’s nose and keeps dropping it’s dentures in the middle of a game. My laptop is 4 years, maybe 5 years old and if we apply the philosophy of computer years, much like the aging process of dogs, it means this laptop I’m typing on is close to becoming a fossilized fuel product. Dinosaur old.

But even people with immunity like myself have weak spots. If I think back and try to identify the first time I was effected by technical advancement fever, I remember video games. I wanted an Atari. Oh my god I knew life would not be complete, it would virtually come to a stand still and I would rot in deprivation, if I didn’t have an Atari and play Pong. So, my family got one. We ruled the kingdom of cutting edge. The euphoria of inviting other neighborhood friends over and giving them timed limits of play on the Atari was nothing short of pure youth power. But all empires must fall right?  This was also my first lesson in technical hierarchy. A neighbor boy, the dirty rotten thunder stealing thief, got a new game system, called an Intellivision. I was immediately DE-throwned by the neighborhood mob because of this new, fancier high tech model. How quickly we learn friendship, especially electrical, can be fleeting~ The word Utopia still grates at my nerves……….

That fall from grace was my first step into electrical current filled waters and I’d like to think I learned my lesson, electrocution style. Sure, I had a few more cravings over the years. A waterproof cordless phone from the JCpenney catalogue I just knew would revolutionize my phone time with girlfriends. A ghetto blaster, the bigger the better, seemed the only suitable playing device for Madonna or Michael Jackson. A Walkman for playing cassettes while on the move or during sequestered times in the car with the parents and brother. But on the whole, it wasn’t a priority in my life.

But, I’ve been mega-byte bitten once again and I want. I don’t need, but I desire. I don’t have to have, but I’m drooling with ‘could’… Instead of buying a phone that belongs with the era and can take a picture, I want a Kindle2. Instead of getting a TV that is smaller then a house, I’d rather buy a Kindle2. From the moment I saw the Kindle2 I’ve dreamed of all the ways she (because only a female based identity would do for something like this)…..she and I could become great book friends. I’ve thought about how she could slip nicely in my purse and produce reading material anytime I desire. I thought about finishing a book and instead of making the effort to trudge down to the bookstore, I could hit a few buttons and BAM, instant electrical infusion of the word nature. A library at my fingertips, how divine~ 

Miss Kindle2 could come to dinner with me and sit on the table against the salt and pepper shakers.I’m certain she would love coffee shops and enjoy long trips in the car. She could go on the plane with me and amuse the fly time away. Miss Kindle2 could even go in the bath with me like the old fashioned books as long as I protect her up in a zip lock bag! We have options and plans, herand I, and I guess Amazon as well.

Now, I am allowing for a courtship here before we make a $359 dollar commitment. My birthday is near the end of next Month and as long as things carry on in present fashion, her and I will be officially united in reading and technology on May 20th. I need to put one of those Amazon pictures over in my sidebar just so I can gaze upon it’s beautiful looks everyday!! Mail order ‘word’ bride~ (found one!)

If anyone knows why Miss Kindle2 and I shouldn’t be formally bonded through words, technology and money, this is when you should step up and say your peace or forever bite your tongue. (If she makes a bad reading partner then good lord say something! I don’t want to hear any ‘I shoulda told ya’ 3 months after the big day)

Do you have Technical Envy of something? Covet anything cool lately?

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