Hello Moto

My latest wacky mishap involves a cell phone, a glass of water and insurmountable odds. Yet......

It was a great day on the plastics line. Everyone is gone for the day and I am lesiurely completing some cables after having cleaned the line and set it all up for tomorrow. I feel pretty smug about our progress and my mind wanders to dinner. I have a flank steak, fresh onion and some multicolored peppers to make fajitas. I'm just about to go to the kitchen to get started when my phone vibrates in my pants. It's Dan. I am surprised to hear from him as he is at Darwin using the satelite phone. He either wants to talk to me badly enough to use the satelite, or he needs to know where the Deep Woods "Off" is located. In my delight to talk to him, I fumble the phone and it falls into my glass of water sitting beside me. FREAK ACCIDENT?? It's a 3 inch opening, yet my phone has found its way in, complete with a splash. Though I dive in after it right away, it is dead. I don't believe it though. I can revive a phone. So I blow on it, remove the battery and sim card, shake it, reassemble it and nothing. I bring out the big guns and use the hairdryer assuming I can blast it back to life, to no avail.

I have to have a phone, especially in the morning when I have to call receiving at work to announce my arrival so they will open the load door. I go to the hall closet which is jam packed with unwanted items that I can't yet bear to get rid of. Consider it my "junk closet". A step up from junk drawer. I find 3 old cell phones and think I can piece together some sort of communication device to tide me over. I insert my sim card into the first phone, but it's locked. I try the second phone, but it's to old. The last phone is juuuust right. But HAS NO CHARGER!

Sigh

I'm off to the mall. The result is a new slide phone with a 500 page manual and more features than I will ever learn before I break it or it becomes obsolete. So if you call me and I appear lame, be gentle, I am figuring out how to answer.

My other problem tonight is that I turned on the TV and everybody's head is cut off. Is there a button for that? or a mode or???? Technology is taunting me tonight. I'm going to go look at stars instead.