Sent from my Blackjack

So, it took me a week or so to figure out how to send a photo from the Blackjack, because it insisted on using a phone number instead of an e-mail address. Alternatively, it would open a web browser and try to send it from my Yahoo! e-mail address - and I didn't want to pay for the data usage. I've got an unlimited messaging add-on to my phone plan, and should be able to send multimedia messages (i.e. photos) for no additional charge.

Not sure if I needed to do this, but I uninstalled all my e-mail connections, and finally got a menu prompt that allowed an e-mail address in the "to:" field.

This little orchid lives in my kitchen window, and blooms twice a year. It seems to like it there, because it gets a little sun, and lots of humidity from the kitchen appliances. And it makes me happy.

Oo -ooh, I'm in Love!

It took a tragedy to bring this sunshine. My old Sony Ericsson cell phone's video displays (inside and outside) crashed last week. The phone is still good for receiving and making calls as long as you manually key in the number. But I can't see what time it is, set or cancel the alarm, use my phone book or any of the menus, take pictures or even see what photos I'd already taken. In fact, I think I've lost some priceless photos of Mother and my daughter, because they're saved on the phone and not on my SIM chip - unless the phone's display miraculously comes back, I may never be able to retrieve them.

So - via a roundabout route, I bought my latest and greatest toy: a red Samsung Blackjack II smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.0, Microsoft Office mobile including Internet Explorer, a 1.2 Megpixel camera, and GPS. It has a lovely chiming ringtone. Now I just need people to call me! I'm inventing excuses to whip it out and push its buttons so I can look and feel Important.

The phone also has the capability of downloading songs and audiobooks onto its microSD memory card. I don't have a headset yet, so I'll wait to explore that feature until I've learned how to use the rest of the stuff it can do.

For my next trick, I'll post a photo from my Blackjack.