Phones in Europe

Okay, you seasoned travelers, you. I have a Cingular LG something-cheap phone. I do not understand the website which is supposed to explain whether my phone will work in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. I think this is possibly connected to the fact that what bthey really want you to do is to rent an "international" phone for $8 a day or $99 a month, or possibly buy a new phone from Cingular.

What's your experience? Can I use my phone? Emma has a fancier Nokia something-not-so-cheap.


I've been doing very little studying and planning for this trip because frankly the idea of getting into an airplane and going somewhere has me nauseous, and that's even before I start worrying about the dog and the cat. But it's less than six weeks away now so I have to get things in order.

apricot algebra

12 pounds of apricots (half a lug), one medium pineapple, 2 lemons, sugar to 2/3 the volume and the nice fellow's mystical homeopathic dollop of pectin makes six quarts and something more than a pint of apricot pineapple jam.

to put this jam up I used eleven half-pint jars and seven pint jars. And another pint jar for the unsealed eat-it-now something-over-a-half-pint left over.

Now I need to design and print eighteen labels.

For some reason, our jam always comes out a glowing vermillion color instead of the pale orange that other people's apricot jam is.