Thing 2

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New phone!

Up until this week, I was using an old Palm Pre II, running on WebOS. It was really cute but not really a smart phone, and I don't have nearly enough tech savvy to figure out how to make it smarter using its open source operating system. Not that I really know what that is. Anyway, it did the job for making phone calls and basic texts (but not sending or receiving texts w/ photos). BUT all support for WebOS is ending in March. So between that and the launching of 23 Mobile Things, I bit the bullet.

I did my homework and found a pretty good, affordable smart phone that works well with my prepaid service. It gave me fits all day yesterday with its inability to connect to the library's wifi--many thanks to Elizabeth, Marcus, Peter, and Katherine for spending so much time trying to figure it out! But then it worked fine at home, so I got myself an Instagram account. My kids were a big help, and as you can see, one of them offered to pose for my first shot:

(The theme of my blog is obviously my dog. Maybe also my kids.)

Of course, Gina has had to spend the past 20 minutes helping me figure out how to get photos to show up on my Instagram page. What is wrong with me?? Maybe I will just stick with Facebook for my own purposes, and use Instagram to spy on the kids.