Caterwauling

I’m officially useless today, although I’m trying to get into some sort of groove before I wrap up this miserable day.

Stella needs to get her groove back, but she isn’t sure how. A beach and Taye Diggs, however, might be a good start. …

Steve Jobs might have pushed his fist up our asses elbow-deep yesterday when the iPhone went on sale by $200, but he’s proposing to make it up to us with a little cuddle.

In an open letter to customers on the the Apple Web site, Jobs says

“Even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price. Our early customers trusted us, and we must live up to that trust with our actions in moments like these.

“Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store.”

$100 is probably the sales tax on what I want at the Apple store, but my friend suggested getting an iTunes gift card instead. Given that headphones and chargers go for $20 apiece and iPhone skins are $30ish, that’s about all you can buy in the retail store for that amount. But having the ability to buy some audiobooks or a few extra albums? The inflammation of my anus is slowly subsiding as he pulls out. …

Why is everything technology- and human-related going awry today? I’m so OVER all of it. And all of you. You know who you are. Something weird is going on that I can’t quite explain, too. That isn’t helping with this disquieting feeling.

I am debating about going back to the personals site. There were some cool people on it. But I know how I get when I hear from people who otherwise dropped off the earth (i.e., I don’t juggle them back in); I’m sure these guys won’t want to hear back from me after I’ve been silent for a month.

Oh, well, the one thing I do best is start over from scratch. Here’s to feeling compelled to stick around next time. *clinks coffee mug to screen*

I’m sensing a liquor-store lunch today. Here’s to hoping I don’t run into anyone I’m trying to avoid!