What I want for my birthday

It's raining out
Do you mind if I stayed awhile?


What do I want for my birthday? I want to be less forgetful. It's hard enough to have Char scold me about not dressing right, turning at wrong junctions, and I really really don't need the additional burden of having to rack my brains to remember who exactly we were supposed to meet at what time tomorrow. Or what she told me 5 min ago.

Really, it's not that I don't care about what she says, but I just CAN'T remember things! I forget names the moment I stop shaking hands. I forget what I was trying to look for in the fridge. I forget why I set my alarm at 5pm. etc etc. You see, this is a mental handicap, it's not that I wilfully disregard everything she says, dumping it into the far recesses of my mind as though they were unsightly bits of trash. My brain just lacks the M:\ drive for storing all the .misc items in my life. My theory is that if I had this capacity, I would probably have lost out on something else equally important, like my ability to burp/fart unnoticeably. It's all genetic and I can't help it that the sperm with the missing M:\ had to also be the fastest swimmer right?

So for my birthday, I ask for memory. Just 80Gb more ok, I'm not very demanding wan. Come to think of it, maybe ipods should have selective information storage functions. Imagine a earphone that also has a built in sound recording device, automatically bookmarking conversations that have "meeting"/"[any-day-of-the-week]"/"my name is..." and other customizable phrases. Then when the time comes just need to put your hand in your pocket and discreetly scroll up and down......

But what I want is just extra memory. NOT an IPOD.