Welcome to the Now

I mentioned earlier that I had bought a new Blackberry thingamabob. It's replacing my 6 yr. old, steam powered cellphone. Golly. It's fancy. I didn't order the web browser option which , in the minds of many technophiles, is probably an almost sacrilegious choice. I figured I would have enough to worry about with the e-mail-only and text-messaging functions. Yeesh. Another $120.00 per year to browse the Internet and waste yet more time? Mmmm...no. I may change my mind later. Heaven knows, the phone company won't penalize me for upgrading my plan.

My efforts to navigate the arcane and multi-layered world of my Blackberry applications is daunting, to say the least. But I really want to do this. I picked the Blackberry so that I could roll a lot more of the functions I need in my paper agenda, like full contact info and a calendar, into one unit. Now I have it. Might as well make the effort to use it as more than a glorified, ringing paperweight with undersized keyboard, full colour screen, and web browser capabilities. Hoorah. I've made it to the 21st century.