Morning....

I have been plagued with getting up too early in the morning lately. This would be, as I'm told, the perfect time to get some writing done, yet I still can't seem to be productive. Since I'm not being productive, I generally just spend the time catching up on my RSS feeds and e-mail. Today however, was different...

Today, I spent some time looking at cases and accessories for my phone, and trying to decide which vendors listed on Google are more reputable than buying off eBay, even if only measurable by a micrometer.

Seriously, I imagine the purveyors of cell phones goods as being similar to the long mustachioed villains of the old silent movie days, cackling, only visibly, while they cram a cheap 30¢ piece of plastic junk made in a third world country into a box and ship it priority mail for less than a dollar after charging me $6.95 shipping and handling. Inevitably, it will arrive either broken, or not doing as is claimed, and the run around will begin. Why? Because deals that seem too good on eBay as anywhere, typically ARE too good, but it doesn't make the practice any less villainous.

I will probably be going for this case as soon as I hear back from any of the vendors that I've emailed about it. It appears to be on several websites, and is advertised simply as a 'black metal case', but it seems, from the images, that it is the Monaco case, the problem is that I want to be certain about whether it is or isn't. Also, it seems strange that there isn't ONE website that has ALL the good deals. I can find a case I want for $9.95 on one site, but the battery I want will be $32.99, while the same battery is $11.95 on another site, but they either don't carry the same case or are charging some other figure that's more.

And really, I would just go to a store and spend a little more money if I could only see these things, and know I would have a place to go if I have problems... but there aren't a lot of stores around me that retail aftermarket cell phone supplies, and so far, none of them have had anything for my phone.

Oh well... time to get ready for work.