Lost & Found

I've finally found a time when Fran is snoozing and I've decided to leave the washing and cleaning til later. Been putting off writing for so long. Well, that and the fact that I've only had proper 'tinernet for a week now. Trying to blog on Stu's phone is quite awkward when you're trying to type what you're thinking, and as I explained before, my phone has a tendency to crash. My old phone, that is. I swear, when I decided on the title of this blog, I never knew how prophetic it would be. I've done so many things in the past year and a bit that are so against all my common sense and thinking. I'm wondering if that is the secret to life? I saw a good TED speech (Google it) on You Tube about getting things done, and the basic gist was, "You know that thing you don't want to do? Well do that. And do it now."

So now I have an iPhone. I've not started using it yet because I need to install some new software on my Mac. I've always hated them because of what they represent: conformity. Being a sheep. When I first moved to London and began to commute every day on the Tube, I noticed a peculiar thing:

1. EVERYBODY had an iPod and was very self aware.
2. EVERYBODY was reading Harry Potter (don't get me started on that, adults showing off that they're reading trendy kids' books on the train? Fuck off!) and Dan Brown.
3. EVERYBODY was rocking touch screen phones when they were just becoming accessible to the masses.

This isn't to say that I've not owned something that has proven to be popular in its time (tell me you never had a Nokia 3210?), but I like to think I made these choices without looking around at my fellow commuters and thinking, "He has one of those.  He looks cool.  I want to look cool.  I will buy the same thing."  I love Apple products, they are beautifully made and much more reliable than PCs etc., but it's like people peed themselves when they saw Apple were going to make a phone and it became a status symbol rather than a necessity.

So, despite all that blah above, I let the woman in the T-Mobile upgrades department talk me into ordering an iPhone.  It's sitting in a box on this very desk, taunting me.  Another thing I said I would never do.  Own an iPhone.

Baaaa.