Catblogging postponed

So I’m constantly getting emails from readers saying “Thanks so much for the constant stream of insightful and timely commentary, LGM would be nothing without you! Just one question, though–why don’t you participate in Friday cat blogging?” The answer is not for a lack of cat, but for a lack of a camera. So the silver lining, I thought, to having my phone stolen was that my new phone came with a camera. Oddly, I’ve never owned a camera of any sort before, and I’ve never really missed owning one, but I did want to give the other Henry the audience she so clearly desires and deserves. I rather surprised myself by how much I was looking forward to this.

Problem is, as far as I can tell, while my phone is just dandy at taking pictures, and pretty good at storing a few dozen of them, it doesn’t seem to have any mechanism for transmiting them to other electronic devices. It only came with one cord, which is for charging and nothing else. Like all sensible and sane people, I steadfastly refuse to pay for internet access on my phone, so emailing them to myself isn’t an option. Indeed, my camera phone is profoundly useless. It allows me to attach pictures to certain callers, so I could literally see who is calling me. Of course, I actually know what my friends look like, so that seems rather pointless. My camera phone has served the following purpose: I start every day by taking a picture of hte first cup of coffee I drink, and setting it as my phones visual background image. I can’t explain why I do this, beyond the generic explanation that I’m rather obsessed with coffee and I’ve also long had an appreciation for well staged images coffee mugs. It’s a good thing this phone only cost me 10 dollars, or I’d be quite annoyed. I expect there’s some sort of cord I might be able to purchase to move the images from phone to computer, but I lost the manual within a few hours of the phone’s arrival, which has inhibited my pending investigation into my options.