Dec 05 2008
School Stuff …aka my toys
These are some of the reasons that I love doing the back to school for grownups thing. Because I am in school, I can justify my toys.
In August of this year, we bought me a very pretty purple laptop from Dell.
And then last week when I crashed my car, and my laptop in the process, we went out and brought home a very nice new Toshiba Satellite. I isn’t purple - but it has new toys, like the built in microphone and webcam, and more hard drive space and so on - so it will do.
We students must have working laptops, don’t you know 
Even if the insurance doesn’t cover it 
This semester, I also graduated from a boring cell phone and Palm LifeDrive to a Blackberry Curve.
While I liked my LifeDrive, till I broke it (yes, I am hard on my toys), the Blackberry is ever so much cooler. It works great as a phone, and camera - and also as a datebook, email client - for all 4 of my active email accounts, if I want. And of course, there are games.
It also allows me to open attachments with my emails, which is very helpful when my students are submitting their essays and so on.
Oh! And the GPS works well for me, also. It is not quite as good as my husband’s TomTom - I am too cheap to pay an extra $10/month for turn by turn voice GPS - but it has helped me a whole lot more than once. Guess I don’t really need it anymore, since I’m no longer allowed to drive … but I am hoping that will be a temporary situation.
My only complaint about my Blackberry is that right after I got it I started to see ads for the Blackberry Bold. NO FAIR! *POUT*
Toys, in some ways, are more important for adults than kids.