New phone

In the due course of time, Michelle and I have grown up and detached ourselves from family phone plans. In need a new plan, I jumped on a deal Best Buy was having on a free Nexus S phone with 2-year contract with AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile (normally $99 with same contract or several hundred dollars without). So we went in and chained ourselves for the next 2 years to AT&T, being the cheapest, having no texting with minimum minutes and data. The plan was to text via data or Wifi using Google Voice and make phone calls over Wifi using the built-in VoIP functionality. Texting works great, but the VoIP needs some lovin. I'll find a free solution eventually.

Of course, since I sit at a desk all day near a phone and Michelle got a job as an insurance agent, she is the one that gets to use it on a daily basis. I asked her how she likes it. She says it's fast, she likes the buttons on the bottom and that she can watch anime on it. "And the widgets?!?" I say. "Meh, I don't care for them. Except the Weather Channel one." She was referring to the Facebook and Twitter widgets, which she then replaced with links to the actual applications. I spend evenings playing games or tinkering with it (like using it as a remote for the computer. Someday perhaps we'll have a Raspberry Pi computer TV that we control with this), but during the day, I still carry around my iPod touch.