Virgin Mobile - LG Rumor Touch

The clam shell like phone, model Vx3400, was my very first cell phone on the Verizon network. Before that I had a pager aka beeper.  Later on when I lost that I upgraded to the Vx6000.  I dropped the Vx6000 at a Dave and Buster's and when I came back for it, it looked as if someone stepped on it.  They were decent basic phones with basic applications and good speaker phones.  The last phones on the Verizon network were the Palm Treo 650 and 750.  I have then switched to Cingular-AT&T and T-Mobile.  I've been through more than one iPhone and version 3, Blackberry 7230, Blackberry 8130 Pearls, World and Curves, used the Razr for a month and sold it, tinkered with the HTCs and Motorola Dash with Windows OS. There's so many others I laid hands on and used, hoping to grasp the PlayStation Portable (PSP) type media and data merger, while able to access the internet and make phone calls.  When I finally quit my geek hunt for the most media all in one device in a cell phone, I decided to just go basic with a cheap Metro PCS phone, for two years unlimited calling had served me well until I lost my phone and didn't care to stay with Metro PCS any more because yes their data and calling usage plan are unlimited, but if the phone doesn't support it then what's the point, for the ones that did support data access you had to shell out approximately $300 for a crappy Metro PCS phone with a crappy browser or interface.  At last the smartphones explosion...

I love the latest iPhones and the HTCs where you can do video conferencing.  I love watching the great HD clarity of the World Series on the HD screen.  I love the applications like the Angry Birds game, find the closest bar when you're on Amsterdam Avenue and 96th Street, tip calculator (because I am bad at it) and even the Budweiser ad where when the host of the party runs out of Budweiser, he loads his Budweiser app. and start pouring beer from his smartphone.  This is like the beginning of the Star Trek replicator aboard the Enterprise, "There's an app. for that", "If you build it, he will come".

I switched to Virgin Mobile a year and a half ago and this is my second LG Rumor Touch because I either lost or someone stole it when I was in Europe, in which it does not work because Europe is mostly GSM and Sprint is a CDMA network.  I got this phone when it was like two hundred something dollars, then after a few months they dropped the price to $149ish.  This Dumbphone, non-Android, is a very versatile phone.  I am reviewing it for anyone else going conservative, thinking about buying the LG Rumor Touch on the Sprint Virgin Mobile network.

As you can see, it slides to a nice keypad which allows me to text and type much faster. You can use it in it's closed position by touching the screen.  I set my main screen list with the Main Menu as the first option which opens to another set of useful tools.  The Contacts list is second in line then my Opera Mini browser and the Google Maps.  Within Main Menu are your basic apps. like Notepad, Calculator, Stopwatch, Alarm, Facebook/Twitter login apps., Camera/Camcorder, Media Player, an app to find how many minutes are left and some other minor apps.  You don't have access to an extensive apps library, they only give you some cheap entertainment or music selections.  If you want a smartphone, go with one of their Android phones.  This phone has the following:

--Mini USB Slot on the bottom
--MicroSD Slot
--Headphone Jack
--Quick Volume Up and Down on side 
--Quick Camera button

--Charge time is short and it can last close to two days with minimum use

--The price is right: $25 Plus Tax at the end of each month for $27ish for 300 minutes and unlimited data is nice.  If you run out of minutes, you just add more.  You can change to an upgraded plan at the end of every month.

--Unlimited Data: So far I've been able to text, email, YouTube music, surf the web, check my email on a daily basis with very minimum connection issues.  The Opera Mini browser is very clear and very good.  I get pictures fine and people can email mynumber@virginserver.com and I'll get the email to my phone.  I can update this blog with limited words on the phone. 

--The volume and clarity in talking over the phone is good, no what or what did you say?  No speaker phone. It includes Bluetooth for hands free.

--The Google Maps works great, I have a GPS device but sometimes I don't bring it with me.  This app. helps when I get lost in Long Island and New Jersey.  This Google Maps application you can download free dots where I am and points an arrow to the direction as I am moving street by street.  It also traces a pink line for the best From Address to the To address.  The zoom in and zoom out takes a while to load but which GPS device doesn't?  One night I was in Paramus, NJ and was stuck on the highway for 20 minutes waiting for the map to load, some Data Error, scared me because without a map I was stuck, it's good to have this but a separate GPS unit or a map as backup keeps you moving in the right direction.

--Each contact has a field for extra info like address or memo and you can add a picture for that contact or set a specific ring tone for that Contact.

--The Camcorder is okay but if someone is robbing a bank and you're filming it, it won't help the Police very much.  If you're trying to take a picture of a license plate from more than a feet away, you better take out a pen and paper also.

Photo of myself in the office.

Problems: The only problem I have with the phone is sometimes it will freeze, like as I use Mini Opera and a text comes in, sometimes it will freeze and I have to reboot to read the text then go back and reload Mini Opera.  Other times I will close the open keypad and it will just reboot by itself.  Those are two minor problems that I have had that delays me a minute but it doesn't affect data or information, no biggie.

Atypical

This is the term I often give myself because that is a fact in behavior, not so much intentional, just built that way. I mostly had a normal upbringing; I was never abused or anything like that.

There are people that blend into society and are against anything out of the norm.  There are those that try so hard to fit into society and fit into the mold that if perfection isn't there, they freak out or ask why and how.  Oh, why me, is God doing this or maybe I should find a four leaf clover. The question is why can't people accept diversity?

People don't get married and that's fine, that's their choice.  People get tattoos and quarters pierced into their tongues and that's fine, it's their choice.  The government allows same sex marriages and that's fine.

My belief is that my beliefs are my beliefs.  I am also open to the beliefs of others and listen even if their beliefs may dawn slightly on the opposition of my beliefs.  I'm going to give examples.  A very controversial topic is homosexuality.  My initial reaction to seeing two men together in a sexual or romantic activity is: no that should not be happening, it's just not right in I'm going to look away.  It's just something the inate reaction built into my head.  It's my right to have this opinion.  However, I don't dislike or criticize gay men.  They have the very right to be who they are.  I would never bash or insult anyone gay.  I have no problem with the activist of their preference advocating for their rights.  The government allowing same sex marriages impose on me in no way, two gay married people is fine by me.  The problem would occur if I mandatory had to change my view in that two men together is against my innate or upbringing sexual beliefs.  I can accept your freedom to be who you are, so my freedom to believe what I believe should also stand even if it's against your beliefs.  Just like the KKK, my belief is that they have the right to hate African Americans.  The KKK have the right to hate me for all they want for being Chinese.  I believe that's their given right to assemble and have their ideas because it's freedom to do so.  I don't believe in racism, but if racism means freedom, then I am fine with it as long as it's not physically imposed on others.  What I mean is that the Ku Klux Klan members can parade around in their hoods and stir racial tension that's fine but anything physical imposed act is breaching on beliefs and freedom.  It's like a homosexual person came up to me and said I had to be gay or I have to think their way and find it to my liking.

Intentionally or unintentionally, people tend to cause a rip on the normal map.  There are those that go against rules or life's guidelines.  It's great that the activist of their kind take bold measures to spread the word so it's not such a shock where diversity isn't accepted or open.

Game of Thrones

Been busy with ventures outside the job, so with timing and many focuses on my metaphoric plate I have not had the time to blog.  Though deterred by, writer's block, I mean blogging block, I still sign in to try to update once a month.  Like a good US Marine Corp soldier who believes in loyalty and honor, when the chips are down and valor is dead, you still finish the mission and bring the troops home.  That is what loyalty means, when the chips are down and no longer favorable, or in this case deterred, you are still dedicated.  The meaning of honor is that you still uphold the principle(s).  Entertainment and relaxation comes third on my agenda, after a year and a half on waiting for HD televisions to become better and cheaper, I now have a Samsung HD LED LCD 3D and after watching shows like Game of Thrones in HD, I can't go back to regular television.  Game of Thrones first aired in April and I watched the first episode and I think it's very good.  I haven't watched every episode but the ones I have watched, I've liked. It involves conflicts internally and between kingdoms.  Keeping the summary short, because I think when I was posting about the television show skins, I over described in detail.  History already themed that the kingdoms were already in conflict and the Targaryen are now allied with the Dothraki.  I watched up to where Khal Drogo had fallen and burned with the witch and as Daenery walked into the flames to only come unharmed with the three dragon eggs that were put on Khal Drago's side, life for a life was the magic spell.  The Targaryen's enemy is the Kingdom of Winterfell.  The Kingdom of Winterfell have their own problems besides the simplicity of going to war against an external enemy, they are conflicts within.  It would seem betrayal or deserting this Kingdom has a penalty with your head being chopped off, no matter who it is.  Good reminder to stay loyal.

Hindsight

The definition of the word Hindsight from several sources describe it as realizing the significance of an event that just occurred.  Including "possibilities or requirements of a situation, event, decision etc., after its occurrence."

Sometimes when something happens to us, we are inexperienced, unprepared or unequipped to handle the situation.  Sometimes you cannot adapt in time to respond to the occurrence. An example is a near death or catastrophic event that happened abruptly.  Another example is if we make a decision that was wrong and it caused something bad to happen.  Or it could be just a student who has just performed or acted on something and wonders after the performance or the action if they did well.  Hindsight, the worst enemy of an insecure teen or worrywart.  We'll think back to that decision or event and we will question or reflect on it.  The question is will we plan or prepare ourselves for the next time it happens?  One of my closest friends told me: "to fix a problem you have to have the right tools, right?".  We forget things sometimes also, but if the impact of that event is so strong or important enough to be addressed, we normally will be prepared next time.

Some people are stuck on not evolving, like they will address an issue with aggression.  They will address an issue with the same straight forward way of thinking.  They won't address the problem with a strategy, even when it has occurred many times before, not thinking outside the box.  I admit I think this way sometimes and it's probably the reason I am writing about it.

I read a book a few years ago.  I forget the title or author and the precise way he described the subject "thinking in the now".  In the book, one of the topics describes how people are not really focused on the world that goes on around them in the immediate present.  The immediate present will have sporadic changes in one's life.  If you're not focused on those changes and focused on the basic routine of life, you will be unequipped to handle the unknown possibilities, causing unknown decisions that will cause hindsight depending the level it impacts you.  You drive your car to work 261 days, minus holidays and time off, a year and it's the same routine.  Nothing major ever happens in five years.  The only changes might be today there is less traffic than yesterday and you're behind a blue Ford Pickup instead of a Black Prius.  You're following the same routine day in and day out until one day a plank of wood slams into your front windshield from a transport truck in front of you.  What changes could have you made to have not have that happen, maybe you should have changed lanes when you saw that huge vehicle in front of you?  Your decision to slam on the brakes, at 55 Miles Per Hour, causes the driver behind you to end up in the Emergency Room in critical condition.  A week passes and the man is still in the Emergency Room. 

Being overly focused on routine and the abrupt change in routine caused an impulsive decision, why not swerve to your left or right instead?  The other two scenarios are our focuses are too much on the future and past.  People focus to much on the future, get things done, get to our destination, or get to our goal, time is not taken to deal with the changes that take place during the destination.  People strive so hard to make their plans work out that they don't adapt to the current changes in the plan.  The other scenario is that someone will be so fixated on what has occurred in the past that maybe in a post traumatic way they react and think that an event that is happening now will turn out the same as it did back then, distracting them from the fact that they can do things differently.  It's logical that we learn from your mistakes and plan today for our future but that's not thinking in the immediate present, being adaptive, that's planning.  Sometimes decisions or actions you need to make comes without plans, you have to react on impulse and hopefully your brain is fast enough to respond properly on the spot.  It's great to plan but changes in the plan need quick responses to prevent looking back on bad decisions or wonder if you made the right act.  You can only plan so much for an event sometimes.  I guess being attentive, having a quick and logical response is a very important thing in preventing hindsight.

Time definitely plays a role in the outcome of a response that will cause looking back on.  How much time do you have to react and make the quick decision for things to turn out right or react properly to the malfunction in the plan.  Can you make the decision or react in a split second when you have a superheroes decision to save a baby or one hundred people that are handicapped?

If you could look back and change one bad event in your life, which would it be?  You can't, so don't think about it too much, you grow from it.  Learn to improve on it the next time it happens or try to adapt faster to events that have yet to teach you a lesson, "think on your toes" when you have no experience in dealing with the issue.

Pain

Urgayle: "Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain?

It let's you know you're not dead"

G.I. Jane (1997)

I saw that movie years ago, loved it, and again a few months ago.  That analogy on pain stuck on my memory, which is something I feel less and less sensitive to everyday. I've dealt with nothing but pain from physical to psychological, yet fight it everyday.  My analogy on pain, is that if you view it as a non-bad thing, it builds character on reacting to initial emotional responses, hence makes a person less sensitive.  Changing your perspective on pain sustains and fortifies you. Like the quote above, unless you're bleeding heavily or have a limb mangled up, then that's not good pain, because then you are physically injured. It tells you to stop, rest, get aide!  Your body tells you the level you can handle.  But the pain that doesn't do that and you can recover from does make you stronger.  Psychologically, it will take you away from being humanly normal, how far it takes you and how far it will take you to come back is another question.  I always like to forgive but believe forgetting is stupid.

You can respect another person more when you not only can see yourself in their position but nothing like going through their ordeal to show empathy or understanding.  The other day, I went paintballing again and it hurt but not from getting hit with paintballs.  What hurt was running around for a few hours with all that gear carrying a gun with a tank and accessories weighing around ten to twelve pounds.  Yes I got some good kills in but also got shot up when I notice my muscles aren't as flexible as they used to be.  This little teenager was moving fast and without agile restraint.  I guess that's why the military recruit from High School.  When they say show love for the troops, I can definitely understand that because I felt a tiny experience of the roughness they go through.  As I was entering the field ready for paint flying at about 260 feet per second combat, I was imagining what it felt like to be a soldier in the military.  They have to wear all that gear, the mask blocks vision and clear focus but they need to wear it because it protects them.  Those soldiers have to aim properly, be fit and make sure they evade those bullets, because it's not paint hitting them, it's a one time end game hitting them.  It's not easy hiding behind something because even hiding behind something the opposite team advances, repositions themselves or can outflank your team.  I must have gotten shot in the head again this game, taste that bitter paint and have a few brown marks to show in the leg and ribs.  At least it wasn't as bad as last time.  Boot camp and staying tough is important to a soldier, hence why drill sergeants aren't lenient, soldiers have to be use to the pain, otherwise they will lose composure under extreme or hostile circumstances, painful circumstances.

Felon (2008)

John Smith: "When your life is defined by a single action, it changes the concept of time."

John Smith: "Love is the most subtle force on earth."

Wade Porter: "Yes, prison desensitizes you. But it also forces you to see what's most important. Family. And loyalty. Because a con like you knows neither exist in this place. So don't run from who you've become, felon. Embrace it. Grow from it. And you'll never lose sight of what truly matters. That's my final piece of advice, Wade Porter. You protect your family at all costs. Even if you're forced to kill again. Because if I had to, I'd wipe out the whole planet to get mine back. So long, friend."

(Backtrack)

Wade Porter: "They never broke him."


There are differences between a "Bad Guy" (someone who faces a problematic situation and too weak to stand strong against wrongful actions) and a "Tough Guy" (someone who faces problematic situations and have become stronger by them).  Both don't yield to a peaceful society too much.  Both will stab a person but the "Tough Guy" will resist stabbing someone unless he is faced with a self preservation conflict.  Nor will he do so with an evil intent.  Circumstances bring us to how we value life, our own and others.  It's those subtle experiences that can make you tougher or break you. -Andrew Szeto

skins - 10th - Eura; Everyone

Michelle and Stanley are by a waterfront eating ice cream.  Abbud is enjoying himself with his new fount love, Daisy, but I think it's more about sex since he's playing with a bunch of condoms.  Chris is still living in the tree house and cleaning himself off in the morning with some wet naps, instead of a normal shower.

Eura, Tony's sister, comes downstairs to find parents are talking about Tony.  Her father says "He just lies up there all weekend. No noise. No getting up in my face. No undermining my authority. I'm, telling you, Renee, it's creeping me out."  It seems he's taking rejection and being ostracized from all his friends badly by hiding.  Eura strips down to her underwear and takes some kind of cream from the fridge and just pours it over her head.  That scene was just crazily hilarious.  Her parents just ignore her.  It's like they are so focused or oblivious, they don't even have peripheral vision.

Cadie is telling false stories again, her psychologist or therapist negotiates for her to tell a real story, original around 70%, she's says something like 40% and it was negotiated to 50%.  This episode elaborates why she is telling these fairy tale stories.  It may be the reason she is seeing all these shrinks.  She asks Dr. Rich if he likes her.  Dr. Rich responds "what's not to like", she is simply happy with that.  Eura is up next, but Dr. Rich says he'll be doing reports until Eura is ready to talk.  In a later scene after she kisses Stanley outside the house, she goes back to the therapist.  The therapist is ready for the 50% real story now and asks what her issue is.  She's not ready to tell her truth story.  She responds "I don't want to know what's true. I don't know if I can take it."  Stanley is the issue. Their relationship is only a story.

Back to Michelle and Stanley at the waterfront.  They say it's peaceful without Tony but a bit boring.  Michelle asks about Stanley and Cadie.  He explains he's growing out of humiliation.  He leaves to meet Daisy for help with a creativity project.  Michelle would really like to see Stanley's creative side.  After Stanley leaves, Eura shows up.  Michelle tells her it's not nice to follow people around.  Seeing that her brother is suffering being ostracized, Eura gives Michelle a letter that reads:

"I've never been here before so I'm not sure what I'm suppose to say or do. Trying to think of what I can say to you. Don't run away from this. Unless we try, it's going to be something we look back on, like when we soul danced in your club that night and you wanted me right there. Don't say you didn't want me."

Michelle looks at the back of the letter and there is a drawing of Tea.  Michelle says "You should look a little closer kid. This isn't me. You must love the little bastard."  Michelle tears the paper that is already ripped and a piece floats in the water.  Eura runs off.  She enters Tony's bedroom, Tony's laying there in the dark.  He tells her that Michelle sent him a text message and told him what she did.  He tells Eura she should not have done that. He also says "No, I don't want to talk about it."  She sits in her room as if contemplating this situation.  The lyrics "I believe you don't deserve my love" plays.  Eura leaves the house at night.

In the creativity project, Stanley is playing the guitar with a song he made up.  As he sings to Daisy, he explains that if he doesn't get an "A", he will fail the semester and if he fails the semester, her will fail the year.  If her fails the year, his mom will keep doing the trainer or some guy at the gym and his dad will go into an introspective state and hang himself.  Daisy asks about Cadie and tells him he needs to send signals to her.  Daisy shows Stanley the look.  The look is this wanting sex trance but in like outer space, not being in reality.  The mesmerized look of being in love.  Physically her eyes are moving in rapid directions.  Stanley with a frozen look on his face replies "Um... Wow. That's pretty good, actually."  Daisy replies "Self-expression, man"

Come back from commercial and a Realtor is showing Abbud's father's house to a potential buyer that climbs the tree house to find Chris, who is living there, naked.  The buyer falls from the tree house.  Tina is away, later Chris and Abbud break into Tina's apartment so Chris has a place to stay.  We find that Abbud's father may have lost the potential buyer because of Chris.  We also find that Abbud is Muslim and from Bangladesh.

Tea is following Betty because I think Tea still likes her.  Betty is still upset and ask her did she clear her "clap", the Chlamydia.  Betty also states she has an appointment to fix her broken ankle.  In another scene Tea enters Betty's room in the hospital.  Betty goes "Look who it is, Ms Clitoris... They gave me a shitload of drugs."  Betty comments that she still hates Tea because Tea is a bitch who screws boys and just doesn't give a shit.  But Betty is drugged out.  Tea responds "You're wrong, Bets. I try."  Betty says "Screw it. Screw everything. I want you in here. I always want you in here."

Stanley is watching old videos of him and Michelle playing prince and princess.  He gets an instant message from Cadie and she is outside.  But so is Michelle standing in the near distance, Michelle is holding a six pack and what looks like a bag of snacks.  Stanley greets Cadie asking where Warren is; Cadie then responds "Warren went... Wyoming... because it's warm."  Cadie wants Stanley to make real decisions about their relationship, she kisses him, while Michelle is watching.  Michelle leaves, but then so does Cadie and Stanley goes back in the house.

Tony is speaking to Tea on the phone when Tea is apologizing for making Tony love her.  Tony does, he says he loves her.  Right after they disconnect, he gets a text message from an Unknown Number showing "took ur lil sister... she's a fighter hahahahahahahaha"  He goes to the bedroom and she's not there.  (A poster hangs there that shows Lolita.)

Tony goes to Stanley's house and asks for help to find his sister.  They eventually all end up at Tina's place even though there is still hostility amongst them due to their social issues, as Tina is still gone.  Chris has broken in earlier and is now residing there.  They are being informed Eura is missing.  Michelle states "call the National Guard" out of sarcasm.  Stanley shows Michelle the text "Cum get her ass. Dare u"  The text message says don't bring the cops and they discuss the police will not be involved.  The last text message comes in with a symbol on it, it's identified by Chris as a Techno club.  They all go.

Tony gets into a fight and is bleeding from the head.  After the fight Michelle finds Tony and Tea holding hands, when discovered they quickly let go.  Her shirt reads "I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD", written in with a marker.  Stanley just entered VIP, as he searches, he finds Eura.  Eura is on the screen and Tony calls their dad, who both freak out.  Stanley says to Eura "That's pretty mean... What are you doing here?"  Eura finally speaks.  And she is just as potty mouth as the rest of them.  The first words you hear from her mouth are "Is he here?"  Stanley responds Tony is there and so is everyone else.  She asks Stanley "What's he doing".  Stanley replies that Tony is going crazy.  She comments "Good. Got out of bed."  Stanley says to her that she is the only person in the world Tony really really loves.  Eura tells Stanley that he never understands anything.  Stanley confirms "No, I don't"  She calls Stanley a stupid dildo and says "He looks up to you... It's you he loves"  She explains "Tony came to you for help didn't he?"  He asks what happens now.  She says "Tell him I'll see him back home"  Stanley asks her where she stayed last night.  Eura points to Cadie, just standing there.  Cadie tells Stanley to go crazy and see what happens (to express himself).  Stanley picks Eura up and gets on stage to tell Tony.  Only security takes Eura away leaving Stanley on stage in front of the crowd.  Stanley grabs the microphone and starts to repeat "Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without, come on, I'm talking to you, come on"  The drummer gives him a beat to his rock lyrics.  Cadie comes in after his solo: "In violent times... You shouldn't have to sell your soul. In black and white... They really, really ought to know"  Duet: "Come on... These are the things I can do without... I'm talking to you... Those one track minds... They took you for a working boy... Kiss them goodbye... You shouldn't have to jump for joy."  The crowd loves them and so does the rest of the skins crew.  They did it as good as Tears for Fears.

Abbud says to Daisy the opposite of what he means.  He tells her that he doesn't love her because of the previous agreement on mindless sex.  But he does and asks her how can  she expect anyone to feel mindless over her.  He's in love and when you are in love you find qualities about your mate no one else sees.  She gives him the signal look.

Tony and Eura are driven home.  As they are grounded, Eura finally says "Good night, mom".  Her mom is shocked.... "She spoke"

Tea lays next to Betty in the hospital, the lyrics "will you stand by me and just be friends" play.

Stanley and Chris are walking back to Stanley's house, since Stanley's dad is away, Chris will be staying in his room.  Chris vomits and while he does that, Stanley sees Michelle sitting on the stoops.  She asks him "Truth? You'd do anything for your friends... no matter what he's done... is it the same for me... do it now Stanley."  They kiss.  The lyrics "I look in her eyes and what do I see... She smells like flowers and taste like butter" plays.  After a few minutes Chris comes along and shouts "Porn stars!... quit boring me... let's party."

(Flash scenes of all the characters from parts of the show and their real names)

Tony - James Newman
Tea - Sofia Black-D'Elia
Chris - Jesse Carere
Cadie - Britne Oldford
Stanley - Daniel Flaherty
Abbud - Ron Mustafaa
Michelle - Rachel Thevenard
Daisy - Camille Cresencia-Mills
Tina - Anastasia Phillips
Eura - Eleanor Zichy

---This was a really good episode for the finale of skins - Season One - American (US) version.  The expressions on the actors were pretty good.  Like I said in another post, kill the critics' bad reviews.  The show is entertaining and fun to watch.  Season one introduced all the characters and their interaction with one another.  Though Stanley was introduced as a stoner who never cared.  This episode shows that his friends made him the man that even Tony looks up to.  Michelle is no longer with the jerk Tony, and is now with Stanley.  It shows why Cadie is seeing therapists, she's looking for love, real love but not willing to deal with it's real pains.  So she tells stories, could be the reason she is on all those meds and seeing all those therapists.  Tea commits a little to Betty.  Tony is still in love with Tea.  Eura finally speaks.  Abbud got Daisy.  Chris is still the party man.  Tina is away after the Chris incident.  They left out, "Cool Teacher", Dave.  They should have at least fit him in this episode for his fifteen minutes.