Comm tower, we've got hostiles.

Here's the latest:

1. Sprint won't cancel me without the fee. You prepay each month, so, naturally, I've already paid up to June, my contract expiration date. Nope! Actually, I've had my phone since Janurary of 2004. Thing is in June of 2004 I changed my plan to add more minutes because my overages were too high. They required my contract be redone for another two years. So what? I can kick it for 5 extra months. Well, the day my plan switched is a week after my statement due date, which means I have to pay, on June 22nd, a full month only to cancel on June 26th and hope and pray that they give me a prorated refund. Hassle. In the meantime I have a phone that DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.

I did, through the use of a hobby knife, pry off most of the screwcaps and have taken apart my phone. Man, it was filthy in there. Maybe it's just too much dirt? At the risk of losing everything that's in there, I'm soaking it in rubbing alcohol. When my antenna broke off there was a direct pathway to the circuitboard open to everything to climb on in and make home. I'll pull it out in a few minutes and let it dry over the weekend. THIS TIME I put the sticky things on wax paper so I'll be able to not only find them later but also reattach them and it should still look ok.

2. I'm not keen on paying for two wireless services at a time and I was budgeting the savings from not paying $80 to Sprint and allocating it to pay for the new service I'm going to get. Failing that, I havn't activated my phone yet. It's just sitting there, fully charged, waiting for it's SIM card, rearing to go. I feel kinda bad for it. But I can't do anything with it: none of the features work without a sim card. I can't even get it to sync with my PC. Booooo....

3. I'll probably sink some more cash into my crappy Tracfone. Online I used to get $10 cards but now they only sell $20 cards. I also get less time for it, 60 units instead of 80. I think it's crap. I want to head to a Target or something and look to see if some of the older and better $10 cards are laying about. BUT, Memorial Day weekend? Shudder.

4. I painted my headset. It is now a nice heterosexual deep blue. Came out pretty good, although I've got a thin line near the edge of the rubber where the masking covered a fraction of a millimeter of plastic, and one side is a little rough from me handling it wet. (lol, handling it wet.) It's fully charged and works as far as I can tell without stealing a phone. Reading the instructions to do some quick tests I noticed one thing: "DO NOT PAINT". Heh. Even though I sanded a lot of the pink off before I started the layers of paint DID make for a more snug fit going back on. Oh well.

5. You know you want to see The Scorpion and The Armageddon. :D