At this moment I have two other computers turned on with browsers at the ready, and yet I’m typing on this dinky little keyboard with smallest screen in the house. I can’t explain it. I’m sure the fascination will wear off soon. By the way, the last two posts were on the BB as well. You have to admit it has upped the frequency of posts for now.

It was over 90 degrees all weekend, which I consider to be completely unacceptable for the month of April. Especially considering the ridiculous property taxes I’m paying. In any case, one wouldn’t think I’d mind so much considering that I’m basically a homebody and the air conditioning is perfectly functional. However, for some reason I decided that Saturday would be a good day for errands except that while one is inside a store, one’s car is sitting in a sweltering parking lot becoming sweltering. My next car will not have a black interior. Just sayin.

In any case, I decided that my judgement on Saturday was not sufficiently bad, so I decided that on Sunday to mess around in the yard at the height of the midday sun. I dug up the garden and planted some tomato plants, then dug up the old redwood edging around our nandinas, and in the process decided to turn the little patch of yard where our sprinkler valves once lived and which has not regrown grass several years later into a little flower for the kids. It was a good idea, I thought, because the girls had started planting flowers there already. However, in the process of turning the soil I heard the distinctive snap and subsequent gurgling that marks the end of the gardening portion of the day and the beginning of the longer, more grueling sprinkler repair part. I dug enough to expose the remaining parts of the sprinkler line that I will tomorrow be cleaning, sanding, cursing, and gluing. That is, unless it’s 95 degrees again.

I have officially been inducted into the cult of Crackberry. True, someday, the iPhone and preferably Android will take over the world, but for me the Blackberry just gets it done. I have all my email and texts and IMs all integrated in one tiny little device that’s connected to the internet all the time. I loved my Nokia, but the battery life was miserable and it didn’t have enough ram to run more than a couple apps at a time and most apps took too long to launch. I haven’t gotten into all the little media features and shortcuts and what not that will only improve the experience, but for now I’m pretty darn impressed.

Also, I have to figure out sometime soon how to blog about the shoot that I did last week. It was a great on a lot of different levels, but most of all, and I’ve said this before but it bears repeating, because I am the luckiest guy in the world, and someday I hope that I can do something to deserve it.

I just ordered a Crackberry phone. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my Nokia N80, but I am doing a ton of email and texting on my phone and I desperately need a full keyboard. The Curve also has GPS and a fast, rock solid OS. Basically what I need from a phone is a solid email and sms client, google maps, opera mini for web browsing. And the occasional ability to call someone.

As for what’s been going on with me, it’s been all about the photos.. I’ve had five shoots in the last five weeks, and the last one has national exposure. The calendar isn’t set yet, but the summer will likely be as busy as I’m willing to allow. Maybe I’ll be able to blog some of it from my new phone. Probably not.