Yanno, you can live on a laptop. Or at least near a laptop. A little tiny palm tree, drink with umbrella, bowl of snacks and a dinghy nearby while your toes rub the warm sand, and it could be daaaays before you lift your head from the heady environs of Twitter, email, blogging and podcasting.
So. I went mobile. Well, I was already kinda mobile - laptop, portable printer, I can go anywhere there's electricity available (battery continues to fade, must get new one!).
More mobile I went, however. The laptop is cumbersome for checking email. Drag it out of the wheeled briefcase, clear off papers (oh, papers and then some) from my work area of choice, plug it in, turn it on, log in, wait and wait and wait for all those silly programs like AIM IM and Babylon and OOVOO to pop up (how the heck do I get them to stop??), and eveennntuallllyyyy I get online.
Well! No more. My pretty little Voyager phone has unlimited everything. Unlimited texting, unlimited calling, unlimited data - I am thrilled to not have to mess around with a laptop to only check my Twitterstream or email or to look up properties if I'm out and about. Perfect, I tell you! And (don't tell my husband), I have VCast Music as well. Oh, I can see the birthday tunes being downloaded. Or photos taken on the fly, without dragging out the camera. Freedom. FREEDOM!!
It kinda looks like an iPod. But that wasn't why I wanted it. Well, maybe it was. Nick Spirtos, one of our agents, has one like it and it was funny how he was always tapping on that keyboard to his listing manager Dorie Watts. And darn it, I was admittedly envious in a good way - happy for him to have it but wanted one kinda like it for my own. So I thought well, why take a laptop everywhere? I don't have to. You don't either. I'm not a Verizon or Voyager salesperson but boy oh boy - this baby is cool and worth the upcoming monthly bill. And I waited long enough for great technology that this one should be good for at least a little while. AND I got a hundred bucks off - more than worth the wait. My big fat phone that I had dropped so many times its poor little casing was broken and the battery looked like it would pop out any minute is relieved of its duties (I'm relieved too).
Still and all, I'm welcoming some freedom. That said, I'll step away from the laptop, have a nice drive home, and check email and tweets later.
On my Voyager. Uh huh, baby. Oh yeah.
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