Doh!

[susandennis]

Just when you think you are bright and resourceful and smart, whoever is in charge gob smacks you back down to earth.  I got gob smacked today big time. 

I went to the craft thing.  And it was way way too small a venue with way way too many people - and, I'm sorry, but dragging whiney little children to something like that is just no good for anybody.

Plus, the minute I got there I remembered why I don't like those things.  It's so personal and so ...  The creator is right there staring at you staring at their stuff and if you don't buy something it says 'your stuff sucks' so you just glance and move on and never get to really shop or look.  Plus, seattlejo was right - it wasn't art stuff - it was craft I-could-make-that-but-I'm-not-that-interested.  (Oh, and seattlejo, I did not get a goodie bag becuase they were lame - a magazine, some flyers and some knitting needles (straight ones that I don't use and have plenty of anyway).

BUT, on my way, I pulled out my Treo to check the time.  It was dead.  I mean dead.  Nothing.  Black screen.  So when I got home, I tried some triage.  I plugged it into its charger and then unplugged it. Dead.  I tried calling it.  Dead. I popped out the SD card which usually perks it up. Dead.  PANIC!!! 

I hope online and look for Sprint stores.  The closest one is one I hate anyway and they are closed.  The next closest one is way over by the University.  I try calling to make sure they have doctors on staff today and get Sprint's lameass telephone tree.  So I head for the car.  I grab directions.  I grab the Lifebook (in case I need web - since I no got on Treo) and head out. 

At every stoplight I try pushing all the buttons.  Nothing.  I think about my options - I don't even think they sell the 600 any more so they probalby don't replace it or it will take 2 weeks or ... I'm so screwed!  This is the phone number I use for everything.  I don't even have long distance on my land line.  Dead.

I'm halfway to the Sprint store at a stoplight and BAM... SMACK. 

I remembered the reset button.  I pulled over.  I reset it and Treo sprang to life.  I tried to turn it off so I could turn it on again.  I reset a couple of times.  I could not make it fail.  Re-Fucking-Set. 

How glad am I that I didn't get to the Sprint Store, stand in line for freakin' ever only to have some teenager with a bad attitude hit the reset button???!!!!

Oh and the Lifebook?  Dead battery.  Someone forgot to recharge it. 

Now I'm trying to remember what I might have had to eat, drink or inhale today that made me so stupid!

Comments

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I'm halfway to the Sprint store at a stoplight and BAM... SMACK.

I kind of wish you wouldn't write paragraphs like that. Of course I knew you were still alive, but...

[susandennis]

Oh.. that is rather much of an out-of-story-line sentence, isn't it?! I have not had a day more stupid than this one in a long time. Hopefully this is it for a while.

[shanynrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's funny. Awhile ago, not long after I got my replacement Treo (I busted mine and they replaced it even though it was out-of-warranty - talk about creating loyalty!) I was incredibly stupid and ran the battery *completely* down. After that, even though I charged it back up, it seemed to have forgotten it was a phone. I tried soft resets, and finally a desperate hard reset. Nothin'.

So I went to the Sprint service center, waited twenty minutes in line, and when I got to the front I tried the phone again just in case (it had been dead for more than a day by then.) Of course it powered right up and called out just fine and has been ever since. I think it just wanted me to look like a dummy. Anthropomorphism, heh.

They do still replace the 600's, at least in this neck of the woods. The stores feature both the 600's and the 650's. If you break a 600 you'll get another 600. I got lucky last spring - I broke my 300 and they replaced THAT with a 600.

[susandennis]

That is good to know - that they are still doing replacements with 600s. I honestly have no reason to go to 650 and don't really want to update accessories and software. But I am so attached to this thing, there is no way I could do without so if 650 was it, I'd have to do it.

[gissa.livejournal.com]

Well. Here, Treo is the name of a fizzy Alka Seltzer type headache tablet that you drop in water. It took me a second to wonder why you were trying to check the time with it.

[susandennis]

Wow... I'll bet you were lost. When I get over this bout with stupid, I'll do better, I promise! Meanwhile, would you buy that here in Seattle we can tell time with drugs?

[gissa.livejournal.com]

Only if you'll buy that we have to 'infart' and 'utfart' in Sweden to enter and exit out of places, if you 'sätta fart' then you hurry up, if you're 'fartblind' then you've failed to slow down, and if you're 'i farten' then you're working.

[susandennis]

Ok, I'm afraid that all that farting would just make me giggle contually!

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

We got there around 1 I think? Had to stand in line to get in the door. Got in the door and couldnt breath or move. So we left for coffee at Elliott Bay Books instead. I didnt even get too look at much of anything. It was just such a crush in the venue.

Glad I didnt get a goodie bag, doesnt sound like much of a goodie.

[susandennis]

Yeah, I think it was a fairly ok idea gone bad. Your plan B sounds perfect.

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

http://seattlejo.typepad.com/seattlejo/2005/11/craftier_then_t.html

My take on the situation :-)