iphone? No, she phone

It's been in the books for a couple of weeks now. My wife got a new phone--an iphone.
She had difficulty engaging in conversation with me the first couple of days. I'd ask her a question, wait for a response, looked over at her, and found her eyes fixated on her phone, and her fingers doing that "gentle flicking" motion people make when they're surfing on a touch screen.
It is an nice-looking phone, and, as a friend of mine noted, "it's not just a phone, it's a conversation piece. Very true.

Apple - in trying to stay a step ahead of the curve and keep sales streaming along, introduced its new iphone 4 today. It looks really nice but I'm not ready to join "the latest and greatest" crowd and snap one up when they come to Canada.

Well, we put an offer on a house last week. It was a little rushed, to say the least. The house had a full price, condition-free offer already, and we still needed to be approved for financing and had couple of subjects to remove. We were running a distant second and the owner accepted the other offer, which we expected.
Our realtor is an interesting person. Kind of pushy, definitely agressive. We haven't decided if we're going to work with her or try to find someone else. My wife continues to look faithfully in the paper and online for our "dream house" (meaning an old house - built in the 1960s - that still needs work).

I'm still waiting for summer or a resemblance of summer to hit. Lately it's been a trade-off of one nice day, one crappy day. It's the second week in June and I still haven't been moved to wear shorts to work. Besides, the lack of sun has them looking pretty pasty anyways.

STILL trying to sort out our loans with our friendly, neighbourhood banker. You would think that with my wife and her mother being longtime customers that they'd actually work hard to keep you. I guess when you make billions in annual profits you need not worry about attrition and you can do whatever you want.