Street Fair Sunday

Just before the alarm clock went off this morning, I was dreaming something that seemed to be a combination of the Aubrey-Maturin series and Shakespeare in Love, at least in the sense that someone who seemed very Gwyneth-Paltrow-like had been caught pretending to be a crewmember of Aubrey's ship. And Aubrey had to lead the effort to get her rescued and returned to her rightful place among the crew. It seemed like a pretty damned neat dream at the time, even if the Gwyneth Paltrow-esque figure did not appear to be "me". ;) I mention this at any rate not only because of the amusement value of having an Aubrey dream, but also because it affected a book choice later in the day! And it was a nice way to start off Street Fair Sunday, too.

( Biking down to the Fair... )

( Arriving at the Fair, finding Dara, and writing... )

( Rendezvous with Dara and Danny, getting a phone, and walking the Fair... )

( Biking home... )

Sunday miles: 24.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1043
Miles out of Rivendell: 585
Miles out of Lothlórien: 123
Miles to Rauros Falls: 266

Kicking and screaming into the cellular age

Also known as "Yeah yeah yeah, okay fine, I have a cell phone now". Heh.

As I mentioned in my Street Fair post just before this one, solarbird and I opted to just add me to her already extant plan--partly because it was easier, and partly because the Working Assets plan apparently is significantly pricier when it comes to roaming charges. We may still switch over at some point if we ever determine that Cingular is made of too much Evil, but so far, they've still got us as customers.

My phone isn't anything spectacular; it's a lot like Dara's, in fact, since I liked hers well enough and require nothing terribly fancy out of my phone. I got a Samsung SGH x-497, and only went so far tonight as to get it set up for voice mail and to get the numbers I'm most likely to actually dial onto the thing. Not sure yet if I'm going to be able to put a ringtone that doesn't suck on it; I'd really like it to make Kim Possible's communicator noise, and barring that to use little instrumental snippets of Great Big Sea ditties, but I am not yet versed in the mojo of making my own ringtones for it. And I'll definitely have to do something about its wallpaper. But not tonight, for lo, I am tired.

So anyway, I have a phone. Local persons who feel a burning desire to add my cell phone number to their address books, send me an email or IM, and I'll give you the number.