I got a new cellphone today, the first brand-new one I’ve ever had. It’s nothing especially fancy–a Sony Ericsson K660i<\/a>–but it’s got enough bells and whistles to make Lydia a little envious. I had to practically wrench it from her grasp this afternoon so that I could enter the settings and whatnot myself. She was quick to point out that she knows much more about this sort of technology than I do, and the smart choice would be to let her set it all up for me, but I politely, if unwisely, declined.<\/p>\n Much more impressive to the gadget geeks in my life is the Nokia n900<\/a> that Olof ordered a few weeks ago and is hoping to receive before the month is out. Lately he’s been giving me thrice-daily news flashes about the expected shipping dates, real and imagined, and between those updates regaling me with tales of the wonder and glory that I can expect to behold as soon as that bad boy drops down in our mailbox. All I can say is that it’s a good thing he’s got some vacation days coming up at Christmas-time, because it’s doubtful that he’ll be getting much work done once his new toy arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got a new cellphone today, the first brand-new one I’ve ever had. It’s nothing especially fancy–a Sony Ericsson K660i–but it’s got enough bells and whistles to make Lydia a little envious. I had to practically wrench it from her grasp this afternoon so that I could enter the settings and whatnot myself. She was… Read More Communication<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}