Sorry everyone! I hate missing my blog day, and I have to thank Lauren Dane for checking on me to see what was wrong. 
I’ll admit it. I blanked it. I thought I had written down every date on my calendar designated for me to blog, but not this one. Go figure. Anyhooo, I did have something mundane and topical to relate.
You might remember (notice I said might) my last blog dealt with slowing down and how my cell phone was way behind the times. Guess what, I lied.
I am Borg.
My hubby and I have new cell phones. Big deal, right? Well, here’s the rub. I have to remember to turn the thing on and leave it on and lordy, lordy people can actually reach me. Of course, I have the option of turning the sucker off.
You should have seen the hubby and I trying to operate our brand new identical (half the size of the last) phones. Oy! First hubby discovered his voice mail wouldn’t work. Didn’t matter which way he did it, it wouldn’t work. We wondered what on earth he’d done wrong. Hmmm. We followed the instructions to the letter.
Finally, we returned to the store, ready to give them the phones if this was all the better it would get. Turned out that the instructions they’d handed to us and everyone else isn’t correct. There’s an additional key you have to press to get the voice mail to activate. Aha! So that’s the ticket. We aren’t as technologically idiotic as we first feared.
Of course, technology sometimes fascinates us, so I’ve run around using the camera to take some intriguing pictures to use as wallpaper on my phone. Do I plan to spend inordinate amounts of money buying ring tones? Probably not. Though I have only found one on the phone that doesn’t make the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
So yes, I am Borg. Is there any technology in your life that drives you nuts?
Until next week, I remain your faithful author. :)
March 26th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Hugs Denise! It happens to me all the time… forgetting things, EVEN when it is written down. Sigh. Life is hectic, and I think you rock.
Don’t even get me started on cell phones and the insanity involved in trying to figure out how to use all the features. I tell you, I’m not technologically challenged at all, in fact I’m rather techie, but when it comes to cell phones, gah! I need a map!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
All technology is mystery to me… and yet I always fall for it. Look at the cute teeeenie tiny phones with the impossible to use keypads and all the über cool features you’ll never need nor use. Want, want, waaaaant!
*ahem*
March 26th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Denise A. Agnew
March 26th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Miz Aztec, thanks for stopping by. I’ll admit this cell phone is becoming less of a mystery day by day. So that’s a good thing. No I have to remember my own darned cell phone number.
Denise A. Agnew
March 26th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
All technology gets the best of me. I don’t have a cell phone, but hubby does. I sometime have to borrow his when I go to get my son. Every time I borrow it I have to ask him how to use it. Thats how smart I am with technology.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
You made me laugh, Denise. Me and my family are the complete opposites; geeks, all. Our family contract ran out last Christmas, so we all trooped down to the store to renew, and get new cellphones each. Got home, and all sat around the kitchen table with our new toys, programming, sending text messages to each other, linking with Bluetooth, and generally have a blast. It was the highlight of everyone’s Christmas.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
OMG. C prompts. DOS. Floppy disks. Manual typewriters. I remember. BTW, I am really not that old.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:07 am
this title made me laugh!!!!!! ohh so needed it today!! thanks for the blog your a doll
March 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Hi Denise,
This post made me smile - and all the comments. This is bad - I sometimes stumble over my cell number, and I’ve had it for over a year now. My excuse, is I had my previous number for 6 years, so it’s still a bit hard to accept I have a new one. New cell phones can be fun! Sometimes they do more than you want them to… but ah well. I don’t go online with mine or buy ring tones or anything… but there are programs where you can convert mp3’s to ring tones, and send it from your computer to your cell via bluetooth. Assuming you have bluetooth on both the phone and computer - though most do these days. I don’t like most of the rings that come preprogramed either.
I’m glad writing is going so well for you!
March 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am
This is SO funny, Denise! I have a new cell phone from last year that has call waiting. You just reminded me that I NEED to go to the AT&T store to figure out the call waiting button. I still don’t know how to do that- I drop people when I try! I am like you- I turn the phone off when I’m not doing anything. My house has very thick walls and in the basement, I have no cell reception. Thank goodness for the olde landline phones!! Hooray for the technologically challenged!
March 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Virginia,
Okay, I don’t feel quite as bad now about my technology hurtles. WINK!!
Denise A. Agnew
March 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Tracy,
There are still a few things I need to learn on my phone, but it’s a pretty easy phone.
Long time no speak!!! Hey, girl…when are you going to approve me on My Space as a friend. LOL.
Denise A. Agnew
March 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I am perfectly evil.
Denise A. Agnew
March 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Lime!
I figure the ring tones I have are good enough for now.
Yikes, I really must memorize that bloody cell phone number. The phone I have is so basic it doesn’t have Bluetooth. Now there is a piece of technology I REALLY don’t need. Talk about bein’ a Borg! I remember being in the Kansas City airport a few years back and hearing this dude doing the “walkie talkie” feature on his phone. I was like “What the frig?”
Denise A. Agnew
Denise A. Agnew
March 27th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Laura,
I figure the phone is good for emergencies and long distance.
Denise A. Agnew
March 27th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Hi Denise! Good luck with the new phones. My dad’s blackberry took him months to figure out–he nicknamed it Albatross
–but now he thinks it is the most wonderful thing.
Personally I am not techy at all. I should be, given my day job, but I just don’t have the time or energy to figure most of the gidgets and gazmos out right now.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
When it comes to technology, I hand everything over to my kids to set up for me. Including my cell phone, dvd player, my tivo, and our new tv. ( Now that one was truly hell in a box!). I will readily admit, I just don’t get it, the directions I read just don’t compute to what I see. So I just turn it over to them, and wait for my condensed tutorial. And then I make them a batch of cookies to show my undying appreciation, lol.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Jodi,
Hey, the phone started buzzing like nuts last night and I thought it was my husband’s work cell phone. He’d gone to the store to pick something up. I finally realized it was my phone vibrating and it was him calling. I’d managed to accidentally turn on the vibrate mode! I finally figured out how I’d done it.
Denise A. Agnew
March 28th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Hey there Cathy! Often times I’ll find the directions nuts because they aren’t written by people who see that the person reading it isn’t always technically savvy. I like your idea of cookies. Good deal!!!!
Denise A. Agnew