Probably...

[desperance]

I could use this clever new American phone I have to record that bloody loud bird that keeps interrupting my reading of Kit Kerr's License to Ensorcell. Then I could send the recording (probably) to my webmail, from which I could uphook it to Dreamwidth and thus to LJ, and then one of you smart people would be able to tell me what kind of bloody loud bird it is.

Not going to, though. Book's too good to faff around with all of that. I only came in for another gin.