ATTN friends o’mine: cell phone number works again

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ATTN friends o’mine: cell phone number works again

Monday, February 2nd, 2009 | Home Life, Tech |

I’ve got a cell phone again. You can reach me at the same number as before. I lost most folks’ numbers with the cell phone, so if you’d email me your number that’d be awesome.

Before Christmas I was told I’d be getting a Blackberry after the new year, which worked out well when I lost my personal cell phone in Franklin over the holidays. It took longer than I thought, but it’s all good.

Not having a cell phone for a month was interesting.

At first it was incredibly frustrating. Then I realized that I had relied on the cell not just for calls, but as a phone book and impromptu planner. Writing phone numbers on pieces of paper and keeping in my wallet solved the first part. Making plans in advance solved the second.

I had noticed years ago that when doing things with people much younger than me that they often made really poorly-defined plans. I figured then that that they had grown up with the flexibility of changing plans on the fly with cell phones, and I’m more sure of it now. A cell phone is an amazing crutch until it’s gone.

I didn’t mind not having a cell phone as much as I would have thought. My wife missed my cell phone much more than I did. At the same time I’m not going to turn into some cellular Luddite. It’s an amazing invention. You can carry around a tiny little device that almost anyone can afford that lets you talk to people all over the world instantaneously. It’s easily one of the best inventions of my lifetime.

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