Keep it simple

A phone that does what a phone should do ... wow, impressive ;)

My phone is a simple thing. I can make calls, I can text, I can play a wee game. The battery life is not that great but it's fine. I remember the first mobile phone I got after the original "brick". It had a mono screen and could only save a maximum of 10 incoming and outgoing text messages. I loved that phone, it was so dinky! Kept it until it died.

I can see how some of the online features in new phones can be handy but I am at a loss with the way they are promoting movies on phones. I like to watch movies on the big screen. Not so much on 3D - right now that spoils the flow of a movie for me. I am happy with the 7" dvd player for travel. Why would I want to watch something on a teeny tint screen? Now, if they could invent some gizmo that played the movie on the teeny tiny display and also let the viewer see it in huge humungous mode, then mthat might be different :p

Also, on the lines of keeping it simple ... email accounts and passwords ... one day I shall learn :p

Getting old...

Getting old beats the alternative, we always say in my neck of the woods.

When I get out of bed feeling like an old lady (after moderate sportive activities), I'm not so sure.
When I find myself not seeing everything black and white anymore, and not judging people who ff'd up, too harshly anymore, I think it's a good thing to grow older.

But the following has me wondering which way to go: downsizing gadgets...

I've just bought a run of the mill phone. Nothing fancy, but does what it needs to do. Why? Because my funky cool, does everything you could want, tiny format, touchscreen AND qwerty, phone, just can't seem to keep the battery going. I've just blown through the 2nd battery in the space of 10 months.
So I bought a phone that is supposed to have good battery time. Unless like most smartphones out there.
And the worst part? So far I like it just fine...

Life's simple joys

I'm getting utterly hooked on the most ridiculously simple game on facebook. It entails planting crops. And having farm animals. And that's about it... only about 1 of my (many :p ) braincells required.

One of the most fun things in it? Coming up with daft names for the animals. I have a few flamingos. Which are pink. So I named one Pinky. The other is called The Brain. I'm seriously considering calling the third 'And'...

Pre-joy or forefun?

One of those hard to translate Dutch words is 'voorpret'. Literally translated I would end up with either pre-joy, or forefun. The dictionary says 'anticipatory pleasure'.

Anyhoo, it's what my travel agency's website is trying to instill in me on my travel webpage, with the message "XXX days to go!'.
I think those 'oh aren't we happy' messages should be forbidden for anything that's still over 30 days away. Let alone 173....

3 hour phonecalls

3 hour phonecalls are cool :)

Of course, I'm thinking of the ones where you just talk with a friend and laugh and time just flies by so much so that bladder control isn't even an issue, as opposed to the ones where you are constantly being put on hold and get frustrated by the folks on the other end playing telephone hockey with you and it seems like you have lost days of your life.

Use technology for good not evil, that's what I say! :p

Good company +
Good food +
Good snow +
Good mountain air (=good sleeping)

=

Happy Frammie!

(although skiing with minus 16 degrees Celsius = one darn cold nose...)

random thought - 2010

Twenty ten or Two thousand ten or Two thousand and ten?

It's like telling the time, so many different ways to say it ... especially if you are from different countries :p

As long as there's moonlight and music and love and romance and gadgets and batteries and power sources and whatnot, let's face the music and dance :)