The Accidental Experiment

My family is all about experiments.  We love simple experiments like mixing colors, complicated experiments like trying to grow our own coral, and everything in between.

But yesterday I got to experience an experiment that I didn't intend.  Last night, we went to church and I forgot my phone at home. AHHHHH!!!!

Obviously, I don't answer the phone while in church, but right after church we have small group and last night we planned on going out to dinner with some people from small group afterwords.  So I was planning on checking email in between each of these functions.

I was able to use my hubby's phone to check email once while we were out and things were fine.  I got home to my phone 4 hours after we left to find that just after we'd left I'd missed 2 calls from the same client.

First though... oh no!  After listening to their message, I thought... what difference would those 4 hours have made?  Not much if anything really.

So did something horrible happen?  No.  Is my client upset?  No.  Did I have a nice evening?  Yes.   So what did I learn?  Perhaps I should unplug (on purpose).  After all, the world will not end.

Unconnected

Today (Thursday) I have been able to experience various kinds of disconnectedness.  For some reason, cell coverage for our carrier is the only one with spotty coverage at the campground we are at.  Today has been worse than normal.  I’m not sure of the reason, but it’s been one of my biggest peeves that I’ve been dealing with since we got here (besides dishes of course).  An example:  My phone let me know I had a new email message, but I can’t actually read the message. For some reason I can get calls, but not data on my cell.   I can also get inbound text messages, but more often than not, I can’t send a reply.

Anyway after being notified that I have an email (which I can’t read on my smart phone), I go to my computer to try to read the message and guess what?   The internet at the campground is not working either so here I am, relegated to writing a venting blog entry in Word, hoping that I will be able to post this tomorrow some time.

I guess, all of this is to say, if you really need to reach me, call.  But don’t leave a message (I probably won’t be able to check voice mail either).