Reunion
Tue Dec 29, 2009 21:20 (UTC -5)During my trip to Europe over the summer, I visited my friend Laura, whom I hadn’t seen since we were 8. She had moved to Spain and had never come back, as far as I knew. Actually, she did go back every few years to be with some of her family members, but I had never known. She even visited some of her friends from our school one time; she showed me the pictures. She also said she’d be visiting the States again in December, so I knew we had to meet up then.
So during our winter break, my (our) friend Kevin pulled the strings, and we all met in Miami Beach on Sunday along with my sister, who never knew Laura very well, but none of us thought that was a problem. We met in the afternoon and walked around the city for hours, checking out the sights and shops. We also had dinner at a Japanese restaurant, so that was cool. It was a good chance for all of us to reminisce about our school days together.
Eventually, it was late. After a run to McDonald’s for dessert, Laura had to go, and we were all tired from walking so much. Although we had fun, we had to say our goodbyes, hoping that it wouldn’t be another 12 years before we all got together again.
In the interest of tying loose ends, this was one of the Europe ’09 followups I mentioned, in case you were wondering. The other was the announcement of my East Coast road trip since it would be sort of a sequel. You know, if my life were a movie or something.
As I mentioned previously, I got a new phone for Christmas. I’d been using a Nokia 6030, which wasn’t cutting-edge even when I got it three years ago. Now I’ve been giving my LG Xenon (warning: the web site is ridiculous) a try. There are some things about it that I don’t quite like, but I’ll have to get used to them (or go back to using my old phone):
- There’s a semi-secret option to turn off 3G service, which in turn saves battery life. However, phone defaults to using 3G the next time it’s turned on, so it’s kind of pointless unless you have your phone on all the time (which I don’t).
- It’s not possible to set a default ring volume. If you switch to silent or vibrate mode and then back, the ring volume is set to 0.
- After adding all of my contacts and deleting some old ones, I noticed that some contacts I didn’t delete were gone and some that I did delete were not gone.
- My old phone would last over a week between charges; this one seems to last about half as long.
I’ll probably get used to those things, though. I do like that the phone has a keyboard and a touch screen, both of which are new to me. It also saves outgoing text messages, which is something I couldn’t get my old phone to do.
See the winning entry from Discover Magazine’s Evolution in Two Minutes or Less video contest. It’s really cheesy. You can watch some other finalists too. (Via Pharyngula)
More zany mugshots: The 30 Most Memorable Mug Shots of 2009. (Via The Presurfer)
