{"id":92,"date":"2010-04-18T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckypalmer.thecomputerguy.bz\/2010\/04\/the-green-eyed-monster\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T21:16:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T03:16:54","slug":"the-green-eyed-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"The Green Eyed Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since I left my job as a tech support rep for a cellular company 4 years ago I have become less and less interested in the new gadgets that have become available for sale at what seems to be a faster rate every year. I barely blinked when the iPhone was released. I have never checked out prices or available features on a Kindle. It has just not been on a radar.<\/span><\/div>\n

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That all changed a few days ago when my husband brought home a Motorola Droid. This is one of of the coolest things I have even seen and I have been bitten by the jealousy bug since the first time I laid eyes on it. My husband has legitimate reasons for buying and using a “smart phone”- he is on the road all day and truly does need to be able to access his email and other websites when on the go. I work in a cube in front of a computer. As much as I love Facebook and other websites I don’t have any real reason to visit them when I’m not at home. But the voice of reason is being drowned out by the voice of “THAT IS SO COOL!!! I WANT ONE!!”<\/span><\/div>\n

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I am hoping that if I just ignore that obnoxious voice for a short time it will die down and I will be able to find happiness again with my basic black flip phone that does everything I need it to do and more. I don’t know if this plan is going to work or not. I will have to take it one day at a time and see………<\/span><\/div>\n

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Since I left my job as a tech support rep for a cellular company 4 years ago I have become less and less interested in the new gadgets that have become available for sale at what seems to be a faster rate every year. I barely blinked when the iPhone was released. I have never checked out prices or available… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-shiny-objects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t