I've got friends coming up from Seattle, so I get to play tour guide for a couple of days. I guess they'll get to see how little I really know my Vancouver. Hehehe. Should be fun though...it'll keep my mind occupied and nose out of trouble. Well...hopefully, anyway.

*sigh*

Spent the morning teaching my parents how to check for messages on their cell phone. OMG! I know they were born before the digital age, but it's OHSOFRICKINGI'MGOINGTOJUSTSHOOTMYSELFFRUSTRATING to teach them how to use the menu systems on the Nokia 5100. We got the phone as a free replacement for the Startac my dad dropped, and ever since, I've been loathing the day we did.

The Nokia 5100 series phones have this center "smart" button that's supposed to do endless functions from dialing people to deleting messages because it doubles as an "OK" or "ENTER" button. Convenient for other people. Bad for teaching technologically-illiterate people. It's makes it confusing to explain that the center button does nearly every option, yet you still (on occassion) need to use the arrow keys to scroll up/down. So when they forget a step and just push this "smart" button they can end up accidentally dialing, deleting, playing snake or calling any of the other zillion (useless) options on the phone. And quite amazingly, nearly every option, EXCEPT the one to check their messages.

*shakes head*

I love my parents. Heh.