I gave a friend a flat panel that seemed to have some problems for the job I needed it for (resolution), but it still worked okay otherwise. Later I learned it was operator error and he has a perfectly good panel, though it wasn't in sync with my second one and now I have a pair that work better as a desktop. They are so nice after working with those hefty CRT monitors, aren't they?

For the minor investment of $10 a month extra on my bill I added a friend onto my phone family plan and now he will be back in the real world with a working phone and all of the applications that go with it. I don't have a web plan, so he'll turn off the things that cost extra, but those are still available for any of us (my daughter is also in the plan) to use in case of urgent need or emergency. Like being lost in the middle of nowhere on a dark night--by all means fire up the phone and use the GPS and map to find your way out again. This phone should help him de-clutter some of the confusion in his life, and I'm glad to be able to do a favor that has such meaning and actually wasn't difficult at all to set up. We talked it over, and asked the phone guy a lot of questions, to be sure we all understood what we were doing. And since it is the last day of the month and they have a few extra perks to make the month sales figures look good, he didn't have a rebate or cost, the phone was free. I paid $50 (after rebate) for the same phone as my upgrade on Sunday.

Nothing much will get done until the weekend, and I am thinking of taking a day or two off next week. The kids are going on vacation and chances are they'll need a little help getting everything ready to go.

SRS