Catching Up with Technology

Praise God the storms have passed and life is getting back to normal, at least to some extent. My temporary assignment at work has been completed and I am no longer planning meals, lodging, or cleanup for anyone. It was fun while it lasted and I think that I may actually have enough experience to run FEMA now.

Throughout last week I felt like I was relegated to using an old rotary phone. The display on my cell when out right before the storm hit and I had ordered a replacement phone. The problem was that FedEx decided that a hurricane was reason enough not to deliver my phone on time. I spent a week of making phone calls and communicating with people on a cell phone that I couldn't see wath I was doing. No text messages, no missed call screen, no contact list...nothing. On Monday I was finally able to get my new phone a Motorola Moto W755. It's no iPhone, but it's definitely miles ahead of the old StarTrek Communicator that I was using. Now my task is just entering in the 2 years worth of phone numbers that I had saved only in my phone. Next time I think I'll back it up every so often.

Not only did we go up in the phone technology area, but we finally broke down and got Dish Network installed. It was a little knee jerk, but we had been talking about it for a few months and I really was wanting to get the channels that they play football on more often...ie ESPN and NFL network. I'm also glad to have the Fox News Network, HGTV, and the Weather Channel. The cost was about the same a cable with more channels and a DVR which we missed from when we had digital cable years ago. Now the only challenge will be that we don't try to catch up on all of the "cable" tv that we've "missed" over the last year of living only only basic. It shouldn't be too hard, but the temptation is always there to spend too much time mouth breathing in front of the idiot box. In order to combat this I've armed myself with "Red" by Ted Dekkar. I'm not a fast reader. My ADD kicks in and I have to reread pages at a time so I don't miss something while I was day dreaming. My goal is to finish the book by October 31 so I can take "White" (the last book in the series) with me on my flight to Germany. The first flight is overnight, so I won't be reading much then, but the layovers and return flight should give me lots of time to read.

There's much more to tell and postulate about, but for now I guess I'll just leave this here. My focus this month is as Dave Ramsey says, "Live like no one else, so later I can Live like No One else". Graber out.