After my months and months of whining about how much I hate my cell phone, my new one is in my possession. I had settled on a Nokia 3120 and made a post on the Shack commanding whoever had one, to sell it to me. Shack is good for buying stuff because it's a small community of gamers who like and trust each other, so I had a much better chance here of finding what I wanted, in good condition, than on eBay. Within minutes, someone sent me a message offering me his 3100 (older revision of the same phone) for $60. It sounded a little bit steep, but fair when he included shipping from Canada as well as a huge number of downloaded games and ringtones. Two weeks later, the phone arrived, and I love, love, love it. It's exactly what I wanted, with nothing I didn't - it's a color version of my old 8265, with a bigger screen, even smaller buttons, a better battery and a still smaller size. When it rings, I can hear it, I can't accidentally do anything stupid to it while it's in my pocket, and I can actually feel it vibrate. And get this - it can actually ring AND vibrate at the same time! Suck that, Motorola. I'm sticking to Nokia from now on. Long live well-constructed, easy, non-crashing European phones! But an even cooler toy arrived an hour ago: my mom's new Mac Mini. The first hour of the experience was exactly what I suspected: it took twice as long to unpack and unwrap as it did to set up the computer. There are some software installs to get done (the computer came from the box with OS 10.3 installed and it included a 10.4 upgrade disk, so that's going on right now), but the initial toying around with the interface and home screen gave me a really good feeling. Mom's going to like this thing, and she's not going to be making inconvenient phone calls to me anymore when things break down. For such a cool little box in such a small little package, Apple certainly did well for pricing it at $500. I'd recommend it for moms everywhere.