Bit of a Break

God may have rested on the seventh day but it take a little bit more to get me to put my scissors down. Today is one of those days. Previously I had been the unhappy owner of a Blackberry Storm 2. I have never, ever, been so disappointed in a phone in my entire life. The thing did better as a paper/fabric weight. After months of frozen screens, short outs and frantic calls to customer service I decided to go out of my way to get out of this telecommunication hell. Today, I have walked out of the land of dispair and back into a field of bright happy apps and more features then I had ever dreamed imaginable on a phone.

I got a Droid.

I had thought that I would pick it up in the morning before work, take a few hours to play around and then settle into a happy groove of having my new toy. It wasn't until I realized that it was 12:03 that I realized that I should have already been at my desk and not in my car in the parking lot of my office. I loudly cursed the clock and whined over the fact that I had been tinkering for two hours and still had hitherto unforeseen fantastic abilities to figure out.

It wasn't until a full day at the office and getting home did I have the time to sit down and realize that the little microphone button in the menu bar while writing a text message would actually let me speak to the phone and it would write the text message to me. Given that texting and driving is becoming illegal throughout the north east this is going to be fantastic. At the very least it will allow me to write my 90 ETA warning to Tim easier when I go south. Texting on the Tappen Zee Bridge...not a good idea.

In my systematic run through of the phone I have discovered so much. I have yet to get to the google run star map or any of the gps navigation programs. Today was mostly social networking, texting, syncing contacts correctly and playing around with the voice command options, which are extensive. I will admit that the qwerty slide out keyboard is a little awkward even though the keys have some definition to them. The top row is just a wee bit too close to the upper face of the device so it can be a little cumbersome.

Such distractions have made me realize that I have yet to clean my room or hallway. Tim is coming up this weekend and my room is a bit cluttered with laundry that needs to be done.

So, good excuse for not completing todays 2 alloted stars in order to meet my goal? I hope so. :)