Friday, October 24, 2008

Obama Made Me Do It...

...but it still felt ghastly. Today, in full knowledge that it is still October, I walked into Radio Shack and bought a cell phone battery ($50!) and a cell phone charger for the car ($30!). Yuck. Justification: I am a team captain of a Get Out the Vote team, which means that until the election I will need at least four hours of battery life at a time on my phone, and my year-and-a-half-old battery could muster 20 minutes at most. But still, yuck! What a rip-off, for stupid plastic gadgets ensconced in stupid plastic packaging! I feel icky, oh so icky.

So what's the treatment for shopping nausea? Well, this is a start:

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