Time really flies on by me these days. I think it has something to do with the new schedule... Monday sucks, but then Tuesday and Wednesday are interesting since they're Scott's days off, and then suddenly it's Thursday which is almost the end of the week. Fridays are my favorite day, even at work, because you have the whole weekend in front of you. And knit night is Friday! Then the weekend always goes by too fast, and it all starts over again. Crazy! So here it is, Thursday again.

Scott finally got his bike back this week, and they never could figure out what was wrong with it. Everyone is leaning towards an oil overfill, done by a shady tech that has since been fired. In any case, Scott is happy to have his Ducati back and probably extra happy that there was no real damage. Oh, and funny thing: the ring from the last post fit him perfectly. The woman at the store just boxed up the one from the display case, and it fits. Perfectly. Weird!

Summer is in full swing, with temperatures in the nineties all week. Gah. I sometimes wonder if I am just not genetically suited to this weather. My mother was German, 100%. My father was German, Swedish and English. Perhaps I would be better off in a Northern European setting. I understand that Swedish summers are short, and a quick check of Stockholm's average temperature in July reveals a comfortable 73 degrees! And the lows in January are 28 degrees. I think this is perfect. It's settled then... First I learn Swedish, then I run away. Maybe I can become a reindeer herder or something.

For now, I'll just think snowy thoughts and hide in air conditioned buildings. Only 89 days until Fall!

My Love For You Is Borderline Pathological...

Poor Scott. He had a rough week. On Tuesday, his day off, the Ducati blew up. There was blue smoke, oil, and frustration. He looked like this:

Many beers were had by Scott and friends, as is evidenced by our unusually full recycling bin:

There are Ducati fairings in the spare room:

Scott can only wait for the prognosis. By Friday, the technicians still aren't sure what happened. They need more time, more tests. I start thinking...

Scott lost his wedding ring a couple weeks ago. He was pretty bummed about it. Maybe a new ring would cheer him up? I looked online, and found something perfect. I went to the store near our house, and asked if they had one in stock. They did! They put the new ring in a handsome box. It might not fit (I don't know his ring size) but he could exchange it for the right size later. When should I give it to him? After work, we ate pizza, and watched an old movie. We were about to go to bed, but I didn't want to wait until tomorrow, so I pulled it out from behind a pillow on the couch. "Will you marry me? Again?"

He was surprised, and he says he loves it. The ring is black titanium, and will last forever. He is happy, and I am happy. We agree that we would marry each other a million billion times over again.

iPhone Posting

This is my first attempt at blogging from the iPhone! It's sort of a pain, honestly, but work is incredibly slow and I'm bored and the Internet connection at the office is incredibly slow today.

Anywho, things are much less hectic and Scott is settling into his new job nicely. Our schedules conflict, which is sort of a good and bad thing. The bad part is that we have less time together, since we don't have the same days off. I estimate that there are about 24 hours during the week that we can spend together- meaning time when neither of us is working, commuting, or sleeping. On the plus side, I rather enjoy solitude, and not having to cook dinner (or feeling like I have to).

Life without the tv is actually less productive than it was with the tv. I seem to remember this happening last time too, but it went away after an adjustment period. But right now, I spend a ridiculous amount of time on the computer. Hopefully that won't last too much longer.

That's all for now. Typing too much on this thing makes me nutty. :P

My New Friend

Now that Scott has left his job, we had to go out and get phones like normal people. Scott used to work for T-Mobile, so he had several employee lines, and paid next to nothing for 'em. This was especially nice for my stepdaughter, I think. I bet not many of her friends had a Sidekick in junior high, and never once had to worry about going over minutes or texts or anything. Frankly, I was a little worried about what our cell phone bill was about to entail, but as it turns out, I was pleasantly surprised.

I knew right off that we would need unlimited texting. I'm not sure how, but Cass sends over 1500 texts steadily each month, and receives about the same. That's a lot. Or maybe it's not. I don't really hang out with any high school chicks, so maybe it's par for the course. Anyway, that was a priority- texting. Luckily, (I assume because of all the texts) she uses about the same amount of minutes as Scott and I each do. With these things in mind, I started shopping around a bit.

I won't lie. I chose our new carrier for one reason, and here it is:

Yup. The iPhone. I had been nudging Scott for a Google phone, but in my heart I always really wanted the iPhone. And I'm so glad fate landed us in this situation, because it really is freaking awesome. All three of us got one, each with our own snazzy case. I went with orange. I'm thinking about naming mine The Viceroy.

Three iPhones on a plan with unlimited text and 700 minutes will run you about $200/month. Plus AT&T has those great rollover minutes, so if there is some sort of crisis, we hopefully won't have to worry about some extra phone usage. But the ability to not only check email, but tweet, blog, check any website, get directions, and always having my iPod on me? Priceless.

My Blackberry Pearl looks like a worthless POS next to this sweet thing. My HTML emails are readable, the camera is better, no more phone delay, internet is nearly flawless, and it's way faster. Hooray for 3G! And I hate to break it to T-Mobile, but AT&T is killing them with better 3G coverage.

So far I've only found two things I don't like about it.

1)It's not compatible with the iPod-through-the-car-radio cord we have. Scott's iPod touch worked with it, but not the iPhone. Which also means not having a car charger. So we have to get a new one of those, or a new car stereo with a MP3 jack, or something.
2)Email isn't automatically updated. To see if I have new email, I have to physically go in and look.

Neither of these is a big deal by any means. And my god, the applications! There are more than you could possibly go through in a lifetime. So far I've only gotten a few freebies, but I see more in my future.

Now if I could just put it down long enough to get some knitting done...