As much of a geek that I am, it is surprising how uninterested I am in my cell phone. The only reason it is being mentioned is because that span of time, that sometimes seems forever, has reached its end, and renewal is upon us.

I got a new cell phone.

I think for normal people, that two years takes forever. For others, the cell phone contract is a span of time that will never occur because they trade their phones in so often that they owe 14 years to cover that crappy phone they have now. For me, those two years go by in a blur, and I usually get a new phone because I am at the Verizon kiosk getting a new headset or something.

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My phone needs are simple - I need to be able to answer it, send a text message or two, have some names in the phone book. Cameras, MP3 players, email, web surfing, tv, movies, changeable covers, leather holsters. I don't need all of that. Request to the cell phone manufacturers: Tell your guys to leave the bells and whistles alone for a few minutes, and concentrate on a feature that keeps my connection from dropping, or hearing that echo in my ear, or having a little icon that actually shows up when a voice mail comes in.

And can you leave the damn external antenna jack alone? Why do you need to invent a new fitting for every single different phone that comes out? You guys ever here of "standardization"? Is the marketing push for cool looking phones be that big that the normal things get overlooked?

Where was I going with that?

Our contract with Pinellas County will be ending on Friday morning, when it will be time to leave Ft. Desoto and head back to Sun N Fun for the holiday week. We have done well here without a sewer connection. For this amount of time, we usually have full hookups. Without sewer, it just forced us to be a bit more careful than usual. Our current tank levels are 53% gray and 61% black.

It is nice having the SeeLevel (709PH) gauges in this condition. My stock gauges were jacked within the first month we had the Knight. The SeeLevel
gives the full digital percentage of how full the tanks are.

We have been using the showers that are a few steps down the street, which is probably the biggest saver. Ang has even captured the dishwater and throws it outside. She has been quite the conservationist

Twp more nights of our paradise, then off to Sun N Fun to park with the population, and dump our full tanks. This is a place that we will definitely come back to in the future.

Hopefully that time will go by faster than my cell phone contract.

--kev