Splurge!

After working extra over Christmas and getting a $900 check, I, honestly, had nothing in particular to do with the money. I guess a new smart phone (to replace my current 2007 dumb phone) was an option, but... I have no need for a smart phone --- what do people do with it? I have Internet access at home, and I have it at work. I asked a friend at work about the actual uses for a smart phone, and he suggested that I could look up driving directions. But... I don't "travel." I pretty much know everywhere I'm going in Austin.

I constantly see people either stopped dead in their tracks or moving blindly with smart phone in hand... They look stupid. (For instance, nearly every day, I see a fellow apartment dweller walking the VERY short distance from his apartment to his car in the apartment parking lot with head ducked over his phone. Really? You can't walk a mere 20 feet sans device?)

I'm going to get a smart phone at some point, of course, just because everyone else has one (sad, I know). But... I don't see the hurry.

What I did end up doing with part of the money was splurging on two very expensive George Jones CD sets, his entire Musicor work from 1965 through 1971, parts one and two (nearly a hundred dollars each). I was tired of scrapping around getting various Jones hits, and finally decided to pull the trigger and get some definitive, complete collections that I will appreciate to the end of my life. More to come and buy (the man had a 50-year recording career).