Where's the phone???

[susandennis]

I have this little 1950's (and 60's and 70's, actually) throwback curse.  I can never find the phone.  My first 30+ years were spent when phones were in one place, never moved - heck, it wasn't until the 70's that I even had a jack where you snap in the little plastic bit. 

The down side was that I had to talk on the phone where the phone actually was.  The up side was that when the phone rang, I knew where to go to answer it.

Now the phone rings at the master station for my wireless handsets.  It is rare that either one of the two handsets are there.  So when the phone rings, I am clueless how to find the bit that I actually talk and listen with.  I can hit a button on the master station and get speaker phone but who the hell remembers that when she is frantically looking all over everywhere to make the noise stop?  Running from the living room to the fish room (to use the other handset) is also not practical. 

Modern life is tough!!  It was my financial adviser wanting to move stuff from one place to a safer place.  Go for it, dude!

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I think my denigrated eyesight of the past six weeks was due to some bad contacts!!  I got  something in one the other day and so tossed it and put in a new one and all of a sudden I can see fine!  I have an eye appointment tomorrow and so had been collecting up samples of stuff I could not see and after I put in the new contact, I can now see all the samples fine.  Better than fine.  I can see the tiniest print on paper and on the screen.   I'm going to keep the appointment anyway - it's too late to cancel without incurring a charge and it won't hurt to have him check.  But, weird. 

Best I can tell it was at least two (I mark a calendar when I open a new contact).  And the one I have in now is from the same box as the other two.  Very strange.

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On Thursday or Friday of this week, I'm going across the pond. In this case, Lake Washington.  I need to make a rare, in person visit to my credit union and go to Michaels so it will be a day trip for me!

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A week and a half ago, I bought a bunch of green bananas.  I wanted to have one  a day and I didn't want them to get spoiled before I got to eat them.  I'd never before gotten green ones.  I thought they would ripen to yellow but they did not.  They turned brown - not mushy brown but brown.  And very tasty with an excellent texture.  I'm eating one now that I purchased a week ago last Saturday.  It's a perfectly fine banana.  Lessons learned, banana wise, I mean.

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I think I'll trot over to the post office today and mail my income tax return.  I want it off my mind and the money is not earning enough interest to make holding on to it for another 10 days worthwhile.  So time to find the checkbook and my shoes and make it happen.

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I probably don't need to add that work is slow... So I'm using the time for better things.  Oh and I've now returned the handset of the phone to the console.   I should just pretend it's the old days and keep it there!

Comments

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I've gotten bad contacts before.It's no fun, but they are cheap so I pop em out and get another one. Ever see the show How It's Made on Discovery? They showed how they make contacts one show. Nifty stuff.

[kyrielle]

Ugh. See, to my mind, phones ought to ring at the hand-set in the first place, so the ringing comes from where you need to grab it at. Ringing at the base unit is not very handy.

[susandennis]

EXACTLY!!! Wonder why the phone people don't figure that out?

[lilliane.livejournal.com]

How bizarre, I've never had a phone that rang at the base. The handsets have always rung. My only problem is not knowing which phone belonged to which base, so I have to use the button on the base to tell me (it rings the phone that belongs on it). What kind do you have? Mine are made by Sony.

[susandennis]

Panasonic. I've had the kind that had that button but this one doesn't.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

Cordless phones are very handy, but it's nice to have at least one wired-to-the-wall phone. For one thing, it can always be found, and for another, if the power goes down, a wired phone still works. The latter is less an issue with cell phones as an alternative, but they tend to be less reliable in the sorts of conditions that bring down power lines.