the shrewdness of apes

i was quite late joining the cell phone game, but i couldn't pass up a free phone from work - the first phone i've had since the gigantic Nextel phone i got from a previous job in 1998. but apparently, lack of experience did not disqualify me from playing "lose your phone in a cab late on a Friday night". given that the phone was about 3 years old, it wasn't a huge loss (i mean really people, how many of you needed to point out the low-tech nature of my phone, or say something like "wow, that's just like the first phone i ever got"?). but i was surprised at how quickly i felt a bit lost without it, not least of all because of all the numbers stored in it. so how nice it was, then, to arrive at work today and have a new (hopefully free) phone waiting for me. it's pretty much the same phone in a lot of ways, but it vibrates, the screen lights up in blue and the games are slightly updated so i suppose we'll call it an improvement. now for the arduous part: putting all the numbers back in, picking a ring tone (maybe the JMU Fight Song?) and establishing a new high score on the "Snake" game.