By The Numbers: "Just Because" Edition
0.24 - Inches of rain that fell in my hometown in the month of May, a record low.
1 - Inches of water per week cool season grasses need in order to thrive.
100,000,000 - Approximate number of hours my sprinkler was on, trying to keep my front yard green.
101 - Number of minutes I used on my cell phone plan last month, a new record high for me.
6 - In minutes, the length of each of my three longest phone calls. I'm not a talker. Or stalker. Or streetwalker. Or anything else that rhymes.
64 - Number of photos I took with my cell phone last month. It's only the second month where I've used more minutes than I have taken pictures with the phone.
2 - Number of photos the boy took with my phone, including this one of me at an unflattering angle, but at least it wasn't my crotch:
Comments
Daniel Fischer said:
So when did you give up being a streeetwalker?
jazz said:
6 minutes?! what gets said in six minutes?! i don't get men. they baffle me.
Jon said:
Part of me wonders if your cell phone talking style is like that of an answering machine with a time limit. Do you ever hang up on people in mid sentence because they're out of time?
cadiz12 said:
or do your conversations all consist of:
"you coming over?"
"yeah. in 20 minutes."
"okay, see you then."
because i've heard that's what a lot of boys do.
Lia said:
My father always talks about "male conversations", and I've discovered that I've started having them. Skip the small talk; go straight to the point.
More importantly, how many photo-messages did you send?
No Cool Story said:
I am also a bit shocked by the 6 (max) minute call. The part that I find very amusing about men on the phone is the way they end the conversation, it'll go like this:
-Ok, bye then.
*Click*
As for women it'll be like:
-Ok, I'm leaving now, I'll call you later.
-Where are you going?
-Oh just to pick up a few things at the store. Will you be home in 2 hours?
-Sure!...what store?
And this will go on for hours and hours. Good-byes are said many times over. This ritual is very important as you know.
I said:
Zero photo-messages! The pictures go straight to my computer.
I forgot to add that I sent 6 text messages and received 7. That's 13 too many, in my book. That money could have been used to buy two lotto tickets. Or something equally useful.
elasticwaistbandlady said:
I got distracted by the blinding brilliance of your teeth and the fact that the camera angle was directly under your nostrils but you don't have anything dangling out of them. I guess the Sharper Image nose hair trimmer works pretty well.
Viking said:
Wow, you outtalked me this month. I've got you outtexted though. And definitely outrained.
cadiz12 said:
i'm surprised about your aversion to text messaging. now there's a form of communication that really cuts to the chase.
I said:
It's more an aversion to spending money, Cadiz. If text messaging came free with the already overpriced monthly plan, I'd do way more of it.
Jon said:
I decided to do some research to see how my cell phone numbers stacked up. I used 420 of my daytime minutes, and 1,936 of my night and weekend minutes for a total of 2,256 minutes. I also used a total of 252 text messages. That's actually a slow month for me. I'm usually somewhere up in the 4,000+ minute range...
wendela said:
I think your son is a natural born photographer. Forgive his angle- he's not the tallest little kid quite yet. :)
Nadia said:
"I forgot to add that I sent 6 text messages and received 7."
What the...?! The minimal talking, I get. But as someone who sends and receives an average of no less than 25 texts a day...well...this is just...
I don't understand...
Lia said:
How does one get pictures off a cameraphone direct to a computer?
Just asking in case I ever get a cameraphone; it could be good to know.
Rhonda said:
Were the 64 photos all of things on the floor in the men's room? ;)
elasticwaistbandlady said:
Whew! I thought I missed something around here. But no, it looks like Omar is doing the J. Geils "Freeze Fame" Dance for nearly an entire week.