Ottomobiehl’s Place

Well, after reading my “drunken” posts I see why Google has that “drunk feature on Gmail. Also I can see why I don’t go out and drink that often. Anyway, I ramble.

People who know me know that I’m not the kind of person to have a huge selection of friends. As a matter of fact I prefer having a small handful of close friends over a large following. That’s the way I am.

So, knowing that, why do I always get hooked on instant messenging? I find a new one and download it. Or, I redownload an old one, have it on my computer for awhile and then get rid of it. The most recent was AOL (which I absolutely hate) messenger. To be fair I did download it because somebody asked if I had it and I said I would download it so we could chat. We never did end up chatting.

Tonight, rather last night, I went to the ICQ site as I used ICQ (briefly) for a very short time. I was half tempted to download it and install it when common sense took hold of me. “Why,” I asked myself and, of course, I could not give my self a good reason. I’m glad that I came to that conclusion.

Some of the messenger clients that I’ve downloaded in the past have been MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AOL, MySpace Messenger (useless), Google Talk (not useless as it lets me know when I have email) and a plethora of open source messengers. God forbid that they invent another as I’ll probably download it, install it, look at it and then uninstall it while being angry at myself for showing a lack of self control for downloading it in the first place.

Speaking of wastes of time (actually we weren’t but it’s a good transition into my next topic) have I told anybody how much I hate phones? Actually I don’t hate them as they aren’t alive and do provide a valuable service (at times). I do dislike talking on them. I used to be a phone person in high school but I think all people were.

I don’t know….

I think it’s might be because the battery is almost dead and I’m too lazy to go and buy one.  Nah, I just don’t like talking on them and it’s no fault to the people who call me whom I actually know.  Sales calls and computer controlled callers can go to hell.  I also hate the answering machings.  I have a bunch of messages I’ve still have yet to listen to.  The problem with that is that it’s just too hard to access the voice mailbox.  Waaaaay to many buttons to push.  I prefer the old answering machines where you could push a button to listen to messages, push a button to fast forward and push a button to delete.  That was easy.  However, it seems they don’t/can’t do that on cell phones.

And finally, there is this little gem.  It a collabrative effort between GM Motors and Segway.  I so want one as it reeks of coolness/nerdiness and more.