Comments | kaote: Things long buried

kaote

Things long buried

Mar 29, 2009 16:55

The great thing about cleaning up clutter is that things you thought were long gone are finally found again. Such as:

a) my good scissors
b) the .mp3 player that chefjenny gave me ages ago ( Read more... )

Comments 5

varjohaltia March 30 2009, 01:08:36 UTC

I really, really, <3 Yö, as depressing as they are.

Also, let me know if you ever need a GSM world phone, I have a couple laying around. They're not in perfect condition, but work just fine.

kaote March 30 2009, 02:27:48 UTC

But depressing is good n' cathartic! Yö has been around for so long that I seem to always be finding new songs by them.

Actually, one of those might be a good idea... it would sure beat waiting to install a fresh SIM to let everyone know what my phone number is each time. :) I have been meaning to get a world phone but just haven't gotten around to it yet.

varjohaltia March 30 2009, 20:18:40 UTC

Well, depending on your plan and how much they charge for intercontinental calls you may still want to get a prepaid one. What I did was to get a prepaid SIM from R-Kioski, then text that number to everyone in the US that I thought should have it, and used the local SIM for the trip. Every so many days I'd switch my US SIM in and check messages.

kaote March 30 2009, 22:31:16 UTC

I've been reluctant to take out my US SIM since when I did it on my Finn phone, it was under the battery and therefore took all the numbers I had stored with it... sigh. Apparently I let the magic smoke out.

Normally a card plus a recharge runs about 30 euros or so and allows for plenty of communications each time, so besides being a bit of a hassle it's not too bad. The phone itself was the cheapest used model that Elisa had to offer at the time - even more archaic than my US Nokia. :) I'm sure I've gotten my money's worth out of the thing even now.

Most of the world phone plans seem to charge an arm and a leg for service, so I never looked into it that much. It would be convenient to always have the same phone number though! If I ever have the means to go there every year or so, it might eventually make sense to have one.

chefjenny March 30 2009, 20:08:47 UTC

Yay for finding mp3 player!