It’s not a joke, it’s country!

Haha, yes, with this title a German television station (das Erste) names the German winner of the Eurovision Song Contest that had the preliminary decision tonight on TV (I just turned on the channel on TV by accident). They showed three music band and the audience chose with telephone voting the winner: “Texas Lightning”. Have you ever heard of them? Me not! I just know one of the musicians, Oli Dittrich, who is or was a comedian on the German TV (Remember the show “Samstag Nacht”?). The singer woman of “Texas Lightning” is actually Australian, but who cares, she will now sing for the Germans in the Olympic hall in Athens where the main (European) song contest will be on March, 20th 2006. The Eurovision Song Contest was known before as Grand Prix (just a name change), but the idea and the contest already started in 1955 with the name “The Eurovision Grand Prix”. For more information see the english or the german web site.

My personal big lightning today was the buy of my new cell phone! Yeah! You must know, I was using a at least 7 year old phone (does anybody know the nokia 3330…ugly heavy phone with no comfort or any specials, just high radiation carrying with me) and now its time was over. The battery was so weak that it didn’t even last for a whole day. Dependent on the amounts of calls and use it worked sometimes only a few hours til it died again. Annoying. I didn’t plan to buy a new phone today, but it just happened. Very unnormal spontaneous buy…(I normally take my time for decisions *g*). Till now (just a few hours after the buy) I didn’t regret it (fortunately). It is just such a great phone compared to my old one…so modern…small…light (v-e-r-y light), color display, animations, polyphony ring tones, so many options to set…just wow…yes yes I know that this is all “normal” for most of the today’s cell users. Not for me with my mobile “bone”. But – I didn’t care. It was working and I got it from my dad (after he already used it some years), after mine broke two years ago (had a nokia 8310). I lived with the 3330 till the bitter end. It (the bone-phone) could look back to a long life (what phone can say this about itself nowadays where technology is so sensitive and often quick and dirty…ehm cheap made).Will go to bed and let me wake up tomorrow with a new modern ring tone. Hopefully it works also, when the phone is shut off. Good night happy new cola-phone.

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{1} Titania Mar 10, 2006

I have a Nokia 8310, all in pearl and it’s still working! Anyway it’s not that old (some 3 years old). Not that I wouldn’t like to have one of those, maybe like the one you bought, with those nice polyphonic tones… but I get attached to the things I love
As long as it’s working, I’ll keep it!