Pragmatist
Pragmatist

Oh, all right...
Tue Dec 15 2009


You won't let me keep my blushes to myself, eh? Well, OK, here's the story of the AWOL cellphone.  I keep my medications in a blue plastic basket, 8.5" by 9", and separated into four parts for morning, noon, evening and bedtime meds. Last Saturday evening, I was filling my weekly pill holder, and when it was time to go to bed, I piled the weekly pill holder on top of the basket, and tucked the phone into a corner, and carried all to my bedroom.



Joan and I both looked at that basket, probably several times, but never thought to look IN it. But yesterday, my hand of its own volition reached for the basket and pulled out my phone. The battery needed recharging, and the phone had put itself to sleep. I plugged in the recharger and left it overnight. The battery showed fully charged this morning, but I couldn't make the phone wake up and stay awake. I did everything exactly as the owner's manual said, and the damned phone continued to snore.



I finally decided that the only thing left to do was to take it to the store where the technicians seem to know exactly what to do. And sure enough, he took the back off, reset the simcard, put the phone back together--just as I had done--and voila! the phone woke up. This is the second time the phone has embarrassed me that way. Or the technicians have magic fingers. Take your choice: magic fingers or a spiteful instrument. Or maybe it's just that technology hates me. My computer loves to crash--oops! I hope it's not listening--on a fairly regular basis.



So that's the story of the AWOL cellphone! Satisfied?



Bless


7 Comments
  • From:
    404Error (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Dec 16 2009
    Very good news-- all the way around!
  • From:
    DancingStar (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Dec 16 2009
    RYC: American sign language is very different to NZSL which I first learned and AUSLAN which I am currently learning. I never found out why the major emphasis on one handed signs but yes it does make things difficult, lucky for me we use mostly two handed signs in my part of the world. Even our alphabet takes two hands. I know the american one though (and a few naughty words my NZSL teacher showed me) and I can't make all of them either! Its not that unusual to sign left handed though, not here at least, we were always encouraged to use our dominant hand for the bulk of things. Which made 'talking' to a left handed person all the more interesting, kind of like reading backwards! After all the languages I have studied previously though I found sign was the one that really made me THINK about how and why we communicate.
  • From:
    Mamallama (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Dec 16 2009
    Yes, I'm satisfied now. :o)

    I will keep praying for Marian.
    I'm glad she is going to be taken care for awhile longer before they let her go home. Too often now they seem to push to fast to go home.
    Hugs, Tiggs
  • From:
    DancingButterfly (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 17 2009
    Oh yes, gadgets like to make us look very stupid.

    RYC- yep, gotta go all the way. They don't induce before 40 weeks unless my blood pressure gets really bad!

    I don't know whether to rest so I can linger on, or start losing my temper and rearranging furniture to push it up to get induced!
  • From:
    DancingButterfly (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 17 2009
    Just adding to DancingStar's comment - Auslan comes from BSL (British Sign Language), as does NZSL, but they all have variations (like speaking English in Australia or England or America!). ASL (American Sign Language) comes from the French and uses one hand for the alphabet. And yet the Irish use one handed alphabet too! It's all a big mix, and often people need to grow up with it or be immersed in the deaf community for a couple of years to really grasp all of that!
  • From:
    DancingButterfly (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 17 2009
    RYC: nah, you didn't need to know all that when you learnt ASL, only when you come into contact with signers from overseas. I'll find the Auslan website for you, you type in a word, and a little video comes up showing you how to sign it! :)
  • From:
    CovertOps (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 17 2009
    Chaya, it's when women operate on the assumption that technology (or science and maths) hate them that things go very wrong and electrical appliances and electronic gadgets fall apart in their hands. If you were to try taking the back off and putting the phone back together again a few times, it would probably start working again without you having to take it to the shop. Anyway, I am continuing to send Marion my prayers and love. And I wish you didn't have to be on any medication. It sounds to me like you are taking a LOT.