It’s a small world after all…celebrating a (three days late) Mexican El dÃa de Reyes (complete with Baby Jesus baked into sweet bread, courtesy of Adalberto) with an American and a Canadian, plus copious amounts of Swedish vodka and German beer, Romanian pop and Bulgarian chalga. Christ…now I’m gonna have that goddamned Disney song stuck in my head all day.
Is it spring yet?
Switched my iPhone’s text plan to international, too. P. put one on when he got the phone for me, but he didn’t think to ask whether it applied to only US, or the rest of the world. When I checked my usage, I realised it was US-only, so every time V. or M. sent me a message, it applied to my limit, but every time I sent one outside the US (which was every time), the fuckers were arse-raping me for 25 cents per message. It pisses me off because the cost to the carrier for texting is so near zero that it may as well be, but instead of charging a small fee, just to keep idiots from using it for “direct marketing”, they charge 20 cents for US messages, and 25 for international, and you pay not only for sending, but for receiving, too (well, unless you have a text plan). Millions of text messages are sent every day, so they’re making a killing off a service that they have to operate anyway, and which costs them nearly nothing. Fuckers ought to EABOD.
