A Brave New World

My Cell Phone
September 25, 2009

When I was on the road daily I relied heavily on my cell phone. Now that I'm at home I don't although it is always on in case of a power failure which knocks out our land lines. I very seldom answer the land line phone unless I know who is calling (telemarketers take note!) and since both my husband and I have cell phones I'm beginning to question the need for a land line at all. More and more I hear of folks giving up their land lines in favour of their cell phone and why not when you know you aren't going to be bothered with telemarketers? Everyone who knows us knows to call one of the cells to get a hold of us so really the land line is becoming a total waste of money but that is another issue. So back to my story.

This is my third cell phone. The first one was a huge 1-foot long thing that weighed a ton. That was upgraded to a really cute Noika with a custom denim case that survived falling in the toilet at a casino (don't ask) but apparently couldn't swim from the lake home. This is why all valuables like cell phones should be in a ziploc bag when boating but again I digress. So that phone was replaced with my cute little Samsung flip phone of which I have a love/hate relationship with but it's always on and does the job so I really can't complain.

My husband was recently away for 4 days so we discovered a whole brand new world of text messaging! We've had this capability for quite some time only NOW we've just decided to use it. Now this is funny because my husband uses his phone to text message which seems painfully slow to me. I on the other hand head on over to Roger's website where I can type in my message using the comforts of touch typing on my keyboard and not squinting at the small key pad on the phone. This actually worked rather well for us so we have decided to continue using text messaging. I normally call him at the office with a grocery list or other stops before he leaves. Today I just sent a brief message to please pick up cottage cheese. He didn't have to stop what he was doing to chit chat and I knew he would get the message so this is really working well for us. Look out world because grandma and grandpa have text messaging and know how to use it :)

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