Cool Website of the Day

This website will calculate distance and approximate fuel costs between two points based on the car you drive.  Pretty stinkin' cool if you're planning a trip or if you just have a few minutes to kill.

Cool tricks for text messagers.

I'm sure most of you already know this but I thought I'd throw it out there anyways.

1. You can email someone a text message.  Wikipedia shows you what email address to use.  For example, to send me a text message from your email client you would send an email to: myphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com.  Melissa uses this when she's at work since they have a no cell phone policy at the high school she works at.  On the flip side of that, I can send a text message to an email address.  Same general principle.
   
   
2. AOL Instant Messenger will let you add a "buddy" by their cell number.  If you use AIM, when adding a buddy put "+15735551212" (whatever their number is w/o quotes) in as their screen name.  For the alias I put their name followed by "Cell."  You can name it whatever.  That's just what I did to keep it straight in my contact list.  Now, when you click on their name to "message" them, it sends them a text message to their phone.  When they respond, it pops up in your AIM message window.

Memories come from the smallest things...

We drink a lot of iced tea.  No, I mean a lot of iced tea.  When we were first married we experimented with the flavored tea.  The one we made the most was Raspberry.  As we moved along the time line of our marriage we dropped the flavor and made just regular old tea.  I don't know if it was a time factor or economics or what.  Maybe I didn't think it was worth the extra money for the box of the flavored tea.  I don't know.  Anyways, this past week while grocery shopping we stopped and actually looked at the tea options.  We grabbed our usual box of Lipton and decided to throw in a box of Raspberry (for old times sake I guess.)

Fast forward a few days, I'm sitting down with a glass of tea.  I'm talking with Melissa and the girls and we're watching a movie from the old days (Escape to Witch Mountain.)  I take a sip of my tea and in my mind I can see our first apartment.  It's odd how a little iced tea can bring back so many good memories.  Not that all our memories are pleasant.  Most newlyweds go through an adjusting phase (some louder than others.)  They say everything you've ever seen or heard is stored in your mind somewhere.  I'm looking forward to finding something else that triggers my memory of times past.