One Life Stand

I’ve come to the conclusion that trying to keep track of my life using a combination of Outlook at work, a paper calendar at work and Windows calendar at home isn’t going too well.  Add in four personal e-mail accounts that I need to access (which I can’t really do from work) and trying to keep up with hubby’s schedule as well and it’s a recipe for disaster.

So I decided I’m going to get a CrackBerry.  Though the prospect paying $180 and signing up for a new two-year contract turns my stomach, I was going to do it anyway.  Except…that $180 listed on the website is the ‘lowest available price’ meaning only available to people who have jumped through multiple hoops, i.e. not me.  The lowest available price for ME is $525!  I think not.

So it’s time to come up with Plan B and C and D and E.  Plan B - buy an unlocked phone off eBay.  I’m leery of eBay purchases of anything more than ~$75, there would be no warranty and the going rate is more than the original $180 I thought I was going to have to pay.  Scratch that plan.

Plan C - Wait until February when Sprint deems me worthy of buying a discounted phone (and of course signing a new two-year contract).  I’m not feeling this one either.  I think my head will explode long before February the way thing are going now.  Bah.

So I’m down to Plans D and E.  Though inconvenient, I could buy a new CrackBerry ($200) or a refurb ($100) from AT&T with only a data (not voice) plan.  Then when Sprint looses their grip on me in April, I could activate voice service through AT&T as well.  It would mean carrying around two devices for the next 10 months but it would solve the current issue of keeping track of my life.

What would you do?