New Travel

New and old travelers mix together during the summertime like no other. During the school/work year, one can see the "typcial" mix of pushy business travelers who've consumed far too many Starbucks beverages, and can often be as a result remarkably rude, and their cousins, the grumpy/greedy geezers who, despite all of their travel, still get really nervous when they travel.

But ahh in summer. It's more crowded, but the TRUE road warriors: moms with at least one baby, a toddler and a 5-7 year old are out in force. These poor souls are too busy to complain or wear their "platinum traveler" status like some sort of bizarre badge of honor. No matter how even tempered one is it tests one's patience when the "I'm platinum!" guy literally shoves his way past our frazzeld parents to get some precious overhead space since "only an idiot checks their bags". Yes. it's more convenient not to check. the tonic of books or ipods, activities that calm the mind and soul, are used by less stressed among us and reflect somewhat more contemplative traveling demeanors that would benefit all.

Malloc error - Samsung A890

In the continuing saga of the curse of the early adopter, I've been once again stung with a recurring problem: my Samsung a890 freezes about 20% of the time I receive a call. to be clear, the phone rings, and when I hit "send" to answer, it locks up. totally. blue screen of death...ON MY PHONE! How annoying is that?

So, naturally I call Verizon and they tell me...drumm roll..."...gee, never heard of that problem before...you need to bring it in to the store..."

....AAAGGGHHHH.... I need to go to the Verizon store! Is there a more delightfull experience than sitting, I mean standing, in a Disneylandian wait line at the Verizon store to get something fixed that's Samsung's fault in the first place? I've got a better idea. How about the ship me a new phone set up as I've customized it with a return envelope like amazon would do? It would be simple enough to store my settings and address book information on the network side (since we dont' have SIM cards for that purpose). this would also make phone changes simpler.