The New Camera Phone and the Hello Kitty Coffee Cup

Plotnik and Ducknik are heading to Block Island, Rhode Island tomorrow, for the wedding of a dear friend's daughter. Afterwards, they'll spend a few days with BZWZ at other dear friends' home on the coast of Maine.

In anticipation of this trip, The Great Plotnik upgraded his cell phone yesterday. He now has a camera phone that takes really bad pictures. He thought that he would be able to use his new camera phone to email a bad camera phone picture of his Hello Kitty coffee cup to someone else's computer (Mush) who knows his Blogger Codes (Mush) and he (she) would be able to post the picture to his blog.

Nope, doesn't work. Apparently one needs to subscribe to some extra multimedia system for the camera phone to send a bad picture to someone else's computer.

So here is how far we've come: We can now use the digital camera to take a good picture of the new camera phone where we can see the bad picture of the Hello Kitty coffee cup. We can then post it ourselves to The Great Plotnik. This is what grown people do with their time.

Back to the trip: you wouldn't think so, but The Great Plotnik is the Great TravelWimp. A few days before any trip to any place, he starts worrying (YAHHH! TERRORISTS! YAHHH! WHITE BREAD!), and he worries until he zips up his packed suitcase (filled with gels and liquids, as well as Martha Brothers coffee) and starts to get excited.

Right now, he's done worrying (YAHHH! JACKET AND TIE FOR WEDDING!) and is already thinking about an Italian dinner at an old line spaghetteria on top of a hill in Providence, R.I., a beautiful bride, a new island (thunderstorms forecast all weekend)(YAHHH! A THUNDERSTORM ON THE FERRY TO THE ISLAND!), seeing BZ, a designer home on a bay near Acadia National Park, friends with a boat, lobster, possibly even a trip to Provincetown to see Large Pants, though the timing is getting tougher for that one.