For those of you that know me know that I am far from being a technology geek. I am just a plain old geek. Yet recently while on a company trip I became fascinated by the driver's GPS system. Now it does not take much to impress me and this really impressed me. Now realize that recently in Doodle Land we made a purchase of a laptop that a certain blonde has been salivating over. This was definitely a want and not a need. With minimal eye rolling and no complaining from me (not that it would have mattered) Hermie made his new owner ecstatic. When I mentioned in passing that I wanted to price a GPS the certain little blonde holding Hermie in a death grip to her chest made the following comment...."Those are way to expensive...you don't need one anyway." I found that comment very interesting considering the several hundred dollar want that the little blonde was holding with a death grip and the couple hundred want I was wanting. Like any good husband I push her comments aside and decided that a very nice GPS was in my future. Please understand that I very rarely spend money on myself. I would much prefer to spend it on my boys and my beautiful blonde. As I began to price this new toy that I now longed for my beautiful blonde continued to make comments like "you don't need one of those things you are good with directions." At last this past Sunday I called my mom for my bi-weekly check-in...when low and behold out of the blue my mother informed me that she had ordered me a GPS of my very own. She had been looking at them recently and she really felt that her little boy could use one of these since he spends so much time traveling. Thanks MOM you are great!!!!! Now that we saved the money on a GPS I now see a blackberry in my very near future. Don't worry if I tell the beautiful blonde I want a blackberry she'll think I am ordering a pie and ask me to get her a chocolate one.
Please pray for me I think that I will be dead after she reads this post. Jesus come quickly....please!!!!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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You know, for a man who SELDOM spends money on himself, you have an obscene amount of ties. And there's a large Macy's bag in your closet that appears to contain a new shirt and still MORE ties!
I'm not surprised your dear Mummy has ordered you a GPS, but I have no doubt that you did a considerable amount of whining and hinting, while pointedly mentioning my laptop purchase to her.
And you can't have a Blackberry--you've still never learned to work your Razor phone!
Honey i caught you theother day trying to shave with a razor phone....i think thatit's time to get a new phone. That shaving cream is interfering with reception.
You know, you might be a technological doorknob dear, but you're definitely King of the Geeks!
And how dare you ask me to help you spellcheck your words when you're writing snide comments on here! >:)
And keep in mind that sitting 5 feet from me is not wise when being a weasel. I can definitely reach you...
You two are going to be more evil than ever now that you have two computers to argue back and forth on!!!
How in the world would Gene's poor Mommy know he really wanted one of those unless he just happened to mention it on one of his bi-weekly check-in's?! :)
You'll have to program it to where you want to shop and eat!!
Ya'll are too funny!
Gene, my dad is always buying himself gadgets and gidgets (is that even a word?) and mom just shrugs her shoulders and says "I never know what to get him for his birthday or Christmas!" His recent purchase was a snazzy GPS!
Yes, I'm pretty sure his mother got the hint when he spent the week of VBS with the Target sale flier stuck to his forehead with a picture of the system he wanted. :)
I always knew Gene was sneaky....
(Arvel's busily posting a book right now...)
To be honest (which I always am) when we were down there she mentioned that she had thought about getting me one and I did say that I thought that they were really neat and that was the end of the conversation.
And by the way me not kowing how to work my phone???? Who showed you how to put your phone on vibrate???????? Who struggled for the first few days with hermie and just found last night where to place the CD's in Hermie and was jumping off the wall to find out that it even had a place for CD's. Blondie has been know to be challenged by even her curling iron!!!
We're not going to TALK about my HP tech support call to India! The thing I'm challenged by is a gray-headed older man across the room!
Who had difficulty even turning off the computer yesterday. There is a novel thing called a button (on/off). I will also tell you that the one you bought will not talk back to you when you ask it verbal question like "what's wrong with you" (try typing or pushing the buttons) or a question like "why are you doing this" (perhaps because you did it...don't blame the computer).
Okay, okay,I give up! Truce, darling husband/troll... I need to get a shower and shave my legs. Can I borrow your phone...?
I am not sure if it stong enough for you...wait I'm headed out to the garage for the super duper weed wacker.
Gene, you're going to get yourself in trouble if you don't watch it. I have 2 dog houses Angie if you need to borrow one!
I sincerely WISH I had the intestinal fortitude to stop shaving for a week just to spite that evil man! Blech! (shudders...) Don't think I can do it, though...
I'm headed to the shower. Would someone else please take care of rebuttals in my absence?
Hmm. Sorry, Gene, I happen to know for a fact that a new computer is not merely a WANT, but a NEED! I've been without, so I know this for a FACT!
NOW, for YOUR side--a GPS is a NEED, especially when you take your lovely wife on a road trip across Europe. We might be driving around in Tibet right now, if it weren't for the handy-dandy GPS.
Yes, take your wife to Europe, or Great Britain, or Australia. She will then see how desperately you NEED a GPS. She WILL understand. I promise.
Very good, Carrie. I pay nearly all our bills online. Arvel would apparently prefer that I carve the payments onto stone tablets and throw them in the general direction of the billing company.
What a SCREAM this exchange has turned out to be! Hopefully both of these dear people will get help at the Rock Lake Camp and their marriage will be saved!
Gene, a GPS is definitely handy. I've had mine since the end of April and can tell you stories already of how it's benefited me.
Angie, a laptop is definitely a necessity. I won't bore you with claims of stories about that.
As to my GPS (and in my own defense): It isn't SNAZZY. In fact, it's one of the lower-level ones that doesn't do much more than tell you where you are and how to get where you're going, plus saying the street names. It doesn't play music, check gasoline prices, warn of the presence of Smokies, or walk the dog. It just works.
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