PDA – in this case, personal digital assistant, rather than public display of affection. Though, if I win my latest auction at UBid for a Handspring Treo 90 , I may have to kiss the delivery man when it arrives.

I had an early model Palm Pilot several years ago, and loved it. Being the frugal person that I am, I had bought it off a friend of mine who had to get the newest, greatest version of the Palm. Thus, I got a Palm at a great price, and he got a subsidization for his latest geek fix. Worked out well all around. But, then I dropped my Palm and busted its screen. And rather than buy a new Palm I decided to stick to a paper organizer format.

For better than a year, though, I’ve had this yearning to return to electronic. For 2001’s Christmas, I convinced myself that until I knew better that I wouldn’t drop a PDA, I’d better stick to a DayTimer system, so my hubby got me an organizer set for Christmas. And it worked well. Still works well. But I still keep thinking I could do so much better with an electronic system. I could keep my work schedule synchronized with my personal schedule better (since my work schedule’s kept on Outlook); I could better keep track of the countless email addresses and other contact info I may need at my disparate locations (two offices for work, plus home); I could more easily. .. The lists keeps getting bigger.

So, I’ve finally decided that the Treo’s the one for me. It’ll synchronize with the applications that I want it to, it has a reasonable amount of memory and a color screen, it has its own built-in keyboard, and it has the ability to expand it to do other schtuff as necessary through an expansion slot. Now I’m seeking it at a more reasonable price than its nearly $300 retail. (Remember, I dropped the last one. . .) Desperately crossing my fingers that the one I’m bidding on at UBid winds up with me. Tried this earlier this week and got bid out at the last minute. The auction’s over in 30 minutes, so here’s hoping that Cora continues to snooze for those thirty minutes so that I can have a shot at getting that Treo.