Some Observations for March

Greetings, all.  I thought I'd take a break from meeting Jath at Starbucks and offer some suggestions for the month ahead (hopefully not an indicator of the time before my next blog post).

Suggestion 1: Layer appropriately.  Today's high = 40, Tuesday's = 59 Thursday's = 45.  Temperature at the office = freezing.  Temperature in the car midway through the commute = balmy.  So I'll be walking out of the house in this:

And returning in this:

(And of course I'll look good doing it; I'm an F-18 bro).

Suggestion 2: Send me some Starbucks gift cards, cause it's trenta time.  Among the more exciting benefits of the warmer weather on the horizon is the justification it provides for iced coffee.  Fortunately for me, Howard knows that when America loves 20 ounces of something, it can't help but love 11 more.  Even without iced coffee, I've been to the local Starbucks enough in recent months that the employees know both my name and my order.  I can only imagine that by June, they'll have my 200 liquid calories ready to go.

Suggestion 3: Check you email!  After spending the last 10 years living with a cell phone that--gasp--only made phone calls (and sent a few txt messages here and there), I've finally upgraded to what the kids these days are calling a "Smartphone".  Using some money gifted to me in celebration of The Feast of the Nativity, I traded in the A767:

for the HTC Inspire 4G:

So far it's taken me 6 hours to figure out where my contacts are, I've twice accidentally called my parents and once been unable to end the call, and I have no idea how to get rid of a pre-installed app from Blockbuster (really AT&T/HTC...Blockbuster?  Ever heard of Netflix, Redbox, or even the concept of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy?).  Also because this phone is intelligent, it apparently requires a steady diet of "data".  And data, I'm told, is money--much like "time" used to be until they invented free nights and weekends, free mobile to mobile, anytime rollover minutes, and text messaging.  So be prepared for copious amounts of communication headed your way.

Suggestion 4: Keep mid-to-late April free on your calendar.  Why?  Well that's a post for another day.